Peru has copper, gold, zinc, silver, natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo, US ambassador & CIA veteran Lisa Kenna discussed "investments" with mining/energy ministers
''The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy - all the gold belonged to them!
If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.''
~ Big Bill Haywood, Miner, founding member & leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Unfortunately, Big Bill ended up in trial and then fled to the Soviet Union in 1921 where he would die in 1928 of liver disease and diabetes due to alcohol.
Now that cartel capitalism is back in full force, as it was during the IWW times, it is international and as Ben noted owned and operated by companies with interlocking interests and also, their own security forces.
In the US, where the miners strip mined the country to the bone, they used Pinkertons.
Today, there are companies like Blackwater that aid and abet mining interests often using extra-judicial means.
This is the fight in the entire region of S. America.
Drugs, mining companies and austerity.
Mining interests prevail and as cartel/monopolies they elbow out any talk of tourism or industrialization.
Their interests are to turn the countries into meterorites for the 'gran cosecha', people be damned.
And as BRICS and UNASUR enter the conversation again, understand the interests of the bourgeoise is to turn all of Latin America into a free enterprise zone.
“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its product in the form of capital.”
----- Karl Marx
In Neo-Colonialism: the Last Stage of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah explains:
“Neo-colonialism is based upon the principle of breaking up former large united colonial territories into a number of small non-viable States which are incapable of independent development and must rely upon the former imperial power for defense and even internal security.
Their economic and financial systems are linked, as in colonial days, with those of the former colonial ruler.”
This is what the US did when Spain was kicked out.
And this is what imperialism wants to maintain.
As for Kenna:
Marx writes:
“As for the individual bureaucrat, the purpose of the state becomes his private purpose, a hunt for promotion, careerism.”
----- “Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of State,” in Karl Marx: Early Writings, trans. Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 111.
Excellent reporting. The US State Department with its "security" state apparatus does the same damn thing every time, and there couldn't be a clearer and more blatant example than this.
Their mania to maintain hegemony seems to be leading us to an even more bipolar world than we had in the last cold war. And one side will be the one with the most cruel exploitation.
''The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy - all the gold belonged to them!
If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.''
~ Big Bill Haywood, Miner, founding member & leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Unfortunately, Big Bill ended up in trial and then fled to the Soviet Union in 1921 where he would die in 1928 of liver disease and diabetes due to alcohol.
Now that cartel capitalism is back in full force, as it was during the IWW times, it is international and as Ben noted owned and operated by companies with interlocking interests and also, their own security forces.
In the US, where the miners strip mined the country to the bone, they used Pinkertons.
Today, there are companies like Blackwater that aid and abet mining interests often using extra-judicial means.
This is the fight in the entire region of S. America.
Drugs, mining companies and austerity.
Mining interests prevail and as cartel/monopolies they elbow out any talk of tourism or industrialization.
Their interests are to turn the countries into meterorites for the 'gran cosecha', people be damned.
And as BRICS and UNASUR enter the conversation again, understand the interests of the bourgeoise is to turn all of Latin America into a free enterprise zone.
“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its product in the form of capital.”
----- Karl Marx
In Neo-Colonialism: the Last Stage of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah explains:
“Neo-colonialism is based upon the principle of breaking up former large united colonial territories into a number of small non-viable States which are incapable of independent development and must rely upon the former imperial power for defense and even internal security.
Their economic and financial systems are linked, as in colonial days, with those of the former colonial ruler.”
This is what the US did when Spain was kicked out.
And this is what imperialism wants to maintain.
As for Kenna:
Marx writes:
“As for the individual bureaucrat, the purpose of the state becomes his private purpose, a hunt for promotion, careerism.”
----- “Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of State,” in Karl Marx: Early Writings, trans. Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 111.
Excellent reporting. The US State Department with its "security" state apparatus does the same damn thing every time, and there couldn't be a clearer and more blatant example than this.
Their mania to maintain hegemony seems to be leading us to an even more bipolar world than we had in the last cold war. And one side will be the one with the most cruel exploitation.