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Because any blood diamond that reaches the market means one less sold by the tight cartel that has run the business for almost 200 years. It also highlights the fact that the value of diamonds is based on a strict management of the supply which is exponentially greater than the demand.
Debeers and associates have tremendous influence with MSM, at least the print branch. NYTs coverage of this issue over the past thirty years is shamefully propogandist in favor of the cartel.
Merry Christmas!
no doubt the world’s supply of diamonds is artificially leveraged but at the same time I sure don’t blame desperately poor folks for doing whatever it takes with their own nation’s natural resource if that resource is desired...by artificial supply control or otherwise
it’s sorta like sweatshops...hardcore hungry folks would rather work for a dollar a day rather than nothing
when we arrived at far flung locales from Honduras to Colombia to Brasil and Venezueala to West Africa, the indigs without exception were ecstatic to see us coming and sad to see us leave
we brought money, opportunity and medicine they would not otherwise have....including anti-venom once to Pedro Segundo Brasil (Piaui I think) when floods forced all the snakes to high ground...we had it flown in by plane from Miami...still, many kids died but more would have
this is just how it works..and not with just diamonds
Hollywood just hates white guys going into the third world to cash in period...we are the exploiters...they miss the irony of what they are ..lol....exploiters too.
Merry Christmas too.