False Claims in International Development

How does propaganda affect communities?

Abstract

In the article entitled „False Claims in International Development” there is an analysis on the disinformation and
false claims in our current modern times, specifically form 2016 until today. From the ravages misinformation can do
during a global pandemic, to how citizens of one city in North Macedonia are getting rich by publishing astonishing
stories from the United States Presidential election (2020), and thus leading the analysis towards a case study on the
false claims during Donald Trump’s presidency and how this misinformation affected people from Mexico. Declaring
that you have „achieved” something great by making other countries (Mexico, in particular) suffer, is not a good
example of leadership at all. This can relate to development in many ways. Since America and Mexico are neighbors,
many development projects and involvements could be intertwined between the two nations, and it wouldn’t be just
Mexico (and its citizens) who would suffer from it, but also America (and its citizens). For example, let us take the
alcoholic beverages as an argument. Tequila is also produced in the US. By diminishing the relationship between
the two countries, and even restricting businesses or access to businesses from Mexico in the US and vice-versa, this
would be a blow towards small enterprises and even big ones that live from producing and selling alcoholic beverages
such as tequila. False claims can do a lot of harm to the international stage, and not only states are affected, but
enterprises as well.