Radio Mundo Real

Brazilian academic Horacio Martins de Carvalho, advisor of the Rural Landless Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) is in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, to participate in the 10th Ibero American Congress of University Extension: ’ExtenSO’.

During the conference “Civilization crisis and privatization fo science”, Martins spoke about the global corporate empires that dominate the scientific knowledge and that also use the national states and their laws to their advantage.

The expert mentioned the cases of global control by a few transnational corporations, for example the control of the food, pharmaceutical, seed, perfume chains, international news agencies, oil corporations and weapon companies.

“These empires determine a logic of production and dissemination of scientific knowledge” said Martins. At some point he referred to the anti-democratic character of the neoliberal governability.

He quoted Portuguese writer Jose Saramago – who talks about the “insurrection of the free minds” - and Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti citing “utopy does not agree with the religion of money or greed”.