Imperialist Exploitation
Three models, three examples, three cases of commercial, political, financial, and selfish exploitation and greed.
El rei de la plata, the Bolivian billionaire who exploited Bolivia's silver mines to the limit and spent the fortune from the sale of Bolivia's mineral assets.
In the 1960s, there was a Latin American Elon Musk who bought all the liquor, whiskey, and women in Europe with the fortune from the sale of silver from Bolivian mines, leaving nothing for his fellow Bolivians, and lived a life of endless luxury until the silver mine was exhausted. His name: Antenor Patino, who later began to exploit the world's largest tin mines.
He became famous for hosting the most lavish party in modern European history up to that date, attended by 700 guests, including some of the world's biggest celebrities of the time. This event, a testament to the immense luxury that forever marked the international jet set, featured European nobility, Hollywood movie stars, millionaires, and bankers.
The second case was in Amapá, with the largest and only reserve of manganese ore useful in the construction of armor for ships and tanks. During World War II, it was exploited to its limit, and today the state of Amapá is obliterated by NGOs that control and minimize exploration and agricultural projects with the famous containment line used in the strategy of paralyzing poor countries, which ranges from the simple defense of indigenous peoples to the dangers of forest fires, human rights, the defense of democracy, slave labor, environmental degradation, and now the latest argument of resistance, which are the threats of entropic global warming. Thus, the USA took one hundred percent of Amapá's manganese reserves to create a mountain of open-pit mineral reserves to guarantee the boycott of exports that previously came from the Soviet Union because of the Cold War.
Thus, they exhausted the entire Amapá deposit due to US greed, and we were left for several years without a new manganese deposit. They plundered the territory of Amapá, which was transformed into a state, then abandoned and prohibited economic activities in the name of false banners of environmental protectionism and diffuse rights, as NATO always does in its post-colonial fury against peripheral countries.
Finally, the third case of the theft of rubber trees; Brazil was the native of the rubber plantations, the magical sap extracted from the wild stem, unique in the world. Then the foreigners settled in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas, and exported and exploited the semi-slave labor of the workers who, at the end of the month, owed much more than they received in wages, the rent for the room or the bed in the lodging, the food, the water, the drink. In the end, they were always in debt to the contractors from Europe, and the enslaved workers were generally recruited from the caatinga, the northeast, illiterate, poor, and hungry. This was the best business in the world after the end of African slavery.
They thought that wasn't enough; they needed to steal seedlings to spread that plant, exclusive to the Amazon, around the world, and they made an infallible plan to thwart all the barriers put in place by the Brazilian authorities to prevent any rubber tree seedlings from leaving Brazil.
They managed to take it to Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand, and thus Brazil lost its monopoly and the wealth brought to the Manaus region, which became impoverished and was economically and culturally abandoned. The first city in Brazil to have electricity reverted to the age of the jungle.
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