The legal chains of imperialism

 
The legal chains of imperialism

x Luis Britto García: Fraud and treason dominate the Empires, which would not have enough soldiers to reduce all the peoples of the earth

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Bolivar said that an ignorant people are blind instruments of their own destruction. He added that they had dominated us by deception, rather than by force.

Empires dominate with fraud and betrayal, which would not have enough soldiers to reduce all the peoples of the earth.

Here are some examples of his criminal procedures:

Free trade agreements
Every Empire begins as a protectionist. It defends relentlessly its own industries and companies with favorable regimes, low or non-existent taxes, strong patent and intellectual property systems, legal safeguards for its entrepreneurs and heavy tariffs or unbreakable vetoes for foreign products. The "Free" trade agreements are intended to prevent developing countries from adopting the same measures to protect their industries, businesses, resources and environments. By signing Free Trade Agreements, Third World nations cannot protect anything. Neither establish protectionist tariffs, nor raise taxes for foreign products or businesses, nor veto the destruction of the environment or protect their workers or vernacular intellectual property. For its part, the Empire does not commit to anything, grants freedom in the areas in which it exercises invincible supremacy, or promises anything and never fulfills. In this fight in which developing countries are bound and empires are not, they always succeed. EXAMPLE: The disgraceful NAFTA, which ruined Mexico, and that as soon as it was inconvenient for the US, he denounced it.

Multilateral Investment Agreements

The more victims it dominates, the more powerful the Empire. Free Trade Agreements, like large families, are cheaper per dozen by imposing identical humiliating clauses on numerous countries at the same time. EXAMPLE: The ill-fated FTAA, which tried to prohibit the protection of industries, workers and the environment in developing countries throughout a hemisphere. In this case, the mocked was the Empire, given the unanimous rejection of Latin Americans. The Pacific Alliance, the second attempt to strengthen US hegemony on the western flank of the continent, as soon as it began to be unfavorable to the US, was disintegrated by it.

Bilateral agreements

The Empire becomes so by applying unity of purpose and determination in the pursuit of goals. Failed attempts to impose the same unequal regime through Multilateral Investment Agreements, are forced country by country, through special agreements, sometimes referred to specific branches of economic activity. EXAMPLE: The Cartagena Agreement links us to a virtual Free Trade Agreement with Colombia, which is in turn tied by another Free Trade Agreement with the US. Therefore, we are obliged to "Free" trade with our main aggressors.

Public debt

Developing countries face critical lack of funds. Local oligarchies or treaties veto raising taxes on those who can pay them: big businessmen and investors. Governments then turn to the magic solution of requesting credits from international organizations. These are granted by inserting clauses that allow them to raise interest rates at will. EXAMPLE: In the last century, creditors suddenly triple or quadruple interest rates to Latin American countries, making it impossible for them to pay their debts, triggering the so-called Debt Crisis and placing them at the mercy of financial organizations.

Letters of intent

Debt funds thus increased are sometimes dissipated in useless investments, transfers to local oligarchies or corruption. To obtain more credits, governments must hand over sovereignty without firing a shot: they give the International Monetary Fund the legislative competence to release prices, interest rates and public service fees, privatize state enterprises and eliminate dependencies on it and social programs, without another result that trigger popular rebellions. EXAMPLE: the Caracazo of 1989, the Santiagazo of Chile in 2019, the Quitazo of 2019.

Most favored nation clause

Empires act with unity of judgment; When they win a victory they make sure it's total. In their dealings with developing countries they demand that the "most favored nation clause" be applied to them, that is, that they be automatically granted the best conditions that any country has obtained in any international treaty with the host country. Granting an advantage to one is giving it to everyone: the safest way to lose. EXAMPLE: This clause has infiltrated much of Venezuela's international treaties.

Infamous treated against double taxation

Expoliation that legalizes tax evasion, these treaties provide that transnational companies will not pay taxes in the country where they obtain their benefits, but in the one where they have their parent company. National taxpayers must thus bear the costs of education, health and pensions of workers, communication channels, public services, legal security, contribution of natural resources and other factors for the production of foreign companies, to which the notorious investors do not They contribute with a penny. Usually, they do not pay taxes in their country of origin either, since they take their healthy dividends to the tax havens. EXAMPLE: Venezuela has signed about three dozen Treaties against Double Taxation, thanks to which it ceases to receive about 17.8 billion dollars per year.

Tax stability agreements

The matter of taxes is of legal reserve, that is to say: governed totally by the law, that should be applied to all equally. Through "tax stability agreements" the transnational privileged unconstitutionally try to establish by contract that the tax reforms will apply to all but them. Example: in Venezuela, the Law for the Promotion and Protection of Foreign Investments aims to immunize outsiders by contract against tax increases.

Supranational Courts and Arbitrators

Empire only submits to courts it controls. Who appoints the judge writes the sentence. There is no treaty, agreement or contract with transnationals that does not intend to submit non-hegemonic States to foreign courts or arbitrators. The Empire does not submit to any. Example: the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, which depends on the World Bank and which in 335 litigation has decided 330 in favor of transnational corporations.

Special areas

After continuous struggles, workers have won rights such as the eight-hour day, stability, social benefits for seniority and unemployment, retirement. Through the subterfuge of declaring a "special" zone, for the benefit of transnationals, it is intended to suspend the Constitution and labor and conservation laws. This slave labor is so convenient that it turns the entire country into a "Special Zone." Example: Mexico, Central America, Dominican Republic mining of maquilas, manufacturing territories where the laws of the country are not valid.

Promotion and protection of investments

Empires, opposed to all protectionism, demand that their companies and interests be protected wherever they go, even with better conditions than those that apply to nationals. With treaties or internal laws they force the host country to privilege foreign capitalists by granting them: 1. Tax relief. 2. Accelerated amortization of its assets 3. Purchase of production by public sector entities. 4. Tax bonus. 5. Tariff exemptions. 6. Tax exemptions. 7. Capital loans under privileged credit conditions. 8. Discounted rates on public services. 9. Preferential access to inputs and / or raw materials and natural resources administered by the State. 10. Tax stability contracts, to immunize transnationals against tax increases. 11. Creation of public management bodies that solve and execute their procedures. 12. Right to annul sentences of national courts by foreign courts or arbitrators. Example: The Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Law of December 28, 2017 grants all these advantages to foreign capitalists.

Industry standards

By naively signing treaties on Industrial Standards or accepting them in their legislation, States may bind their future development to equipment, machinery or patents supplied by a single supplier, without the option of choosing less expensive or more convenient alternatives. Example: our Covenin industrial standards system.

Non-governmental organizations

Non-governmental organizations are those that do depend on foreign governments. Financing them, the Empires execute in public and cheap light what they previously perpetrated with expensive clandestine espionage and sabotage devices. Example: In Venezuela almost all NGOs are financed by the USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.

Judicialization

If a ruler is too popular to defeat him in elections and too cautious to kill him, he is put on trial before a rigged court. Who appoints the judge writes the sentence. Example: Prosecutions against Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Dilma Rousseff in Brazil.

International reserves

Logical and necessary is that a country has monetary reserves to meet present or future commitments; illogical and unnecessary to have them in unsupported currencies like the dollar and deposited in foreign banks accustomed to confiscate them when they feel like it. Example: The 200,000 million dollars stolen from Libya after the assassination of Muammar Khadafi. The scramble with Venezuela's reserves of the Bank of London and the Bank of Portugal.

Human rights

Few causes more noble than that of Human Rights, few uses more ignoble than those given by the Empires. As soon as a country signs a Human Rights Treaty, it is submitted to the trial of organizations usually financed by the Empires to find violations where there are none and declare that there are none when they exist. Example: Arrest order issued in half an hour and without evidence by the Hague Criminal Court against Khadafi to legitimize 20,000 bombings against Libya and the dismemberment of the country. All convictions against Venezuela by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the OAS. This Court can condemn and condemn all Latin American and Caribbean States, but not the United States, which refrained from signing the corresponding treaty, which it signed all others.

Traitors

Raw material of the Empires. Lubricant of the dividend machine. Suppliers of extermination camps. Cheap occupation army that feeds the victim herself. No aggression strategy would succeed without disloyal executions. What would the Empire be without them. At the bottom of all his victories one gets.

Example: Gorbachev, president of the Soviet Union, executes its disintegration. Boris Yeltzin, a communist appointed President by the Supreme Soviet, makes him cannon and adopts neoliberal measures that ruin all the conquests of the Revolution. Lenin Moreno, an unconditional follower of Rafael Correa, after winning the elections with his support, gives himself to the International Monetary Fund. Complete the list, as long as the misfortunes of mankind.

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