The Economic Hitman: The Sickness of the Corporatocracy.
During these last weeks I've had the opportunity
to get to know a great written work that illustrates how the world is being
fooled by the biggest corporations without knowing anything about it. The game
is easy, they offer money to countries, and then a little bit more, and the
some more. Poor countries see in this the solution for all of their problems.
However, this is not the entire game; otherwise it would be very boring. The
corporations start their turn by increasing the interests' rates, in order to
dominate for centuries the economic ambit of the countries. And in just two
turns they win. The work of these Economic Hitmen is to corrupt the leaders of
countries in order to obtain the most out of them. They enrich the most
powerful sectors of the country by sucking all of the economic resources of the
poorest peoples.
The book reveals how Economic Hitmen are the
first stages of the game. If the leader of a country does not accept their
"deal," the corporations send the "jackals" to finish up
the game. Their job is to murder the leaders who denied them what they wanted.
If this fails too, the last resource is the most feared of all: The U.S army.
This means that there is absolutely nothing one can do to avoid the total
dominance of these companies who love power and money. No one is exempted,
and one the continents that is more affected by this sick game is Latin
America.
The author explains the cases of Ecuador and
Panama, and the assassination of Roldós and Torrijos, who refused to accept the
"solutions" that these companies were offering them. However, the
book only mentions Colombia once, and this country is the most connected with
the Corporatocracy in my opinion. Colombia is the Latin-american country that
is more connected to the U.S. The T.L.C, the embassies, the deals, the
interconnections, the "Americanization," and the political and
economic programs that connect these to countries show how bounded they are.
However, this relationship does not work as it is depicted in the news;
Colombia is the slave of the U.S.
There are multiple reasons to argue this.
Colombia exports a lot of materials and resources to the U.S, however, the
prices of these materials are so low that Colombian workers lose money most of
the times. Colombia if forced to accept international programs that the U.S
designs, and this has created a negative effect in the region. The country is
now alienated from the rest because it is perceived as an enemy because of its
close relation with the United States. This situation was more obvious when
Venezuela argued that the U.S military bases in Colombia were designed to
threaten the countries next to it. Even though this is partially right (by
having military bases in Colombia, the U.S is able to spy on the governments of
regions next to it) the more threatened population of all is the Colombian one.
Colombians are being subjugated to the desires of Washington. The government is
acting as the best friend of the White House, when in all reality is the
dog.
Sadly, not everyone knows about this, and they
believe that the only acceptable way to do things is "The American
Way." When the Corporatocracy decides to finally "close the
deal" it is going to be very late for every one of us. No salvation.
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