With the new goverment anouncement about the contract expiration of Oxy, there have been plenty of complaints, especially from business groups for a possible dialog termination with EEUU about the TLC (Tratado de libre comercio in spanish).
And Washington has given it's veredict, there will be no further TLC dialogs with Ecuador, because of the Oxy problem.
Reading this in the news, makes me wonder, Isn't it possible for a third world country to expell a Huge Oil Company like Oxy?. Didn't Oxy violated it's contract when they passed a great percentage of actions to another company without ecuadorian goverment permision?. Didn't Oxy administrators know that if they violated the contract, the company would be expelled without any compensation?
And the mother of all questions? What the hell does this have to do with the TLC? Why Washington has to make declarations of a problem between Ecuador and Occidental?
All this makes me believe that Hugo Chavez is somehow rigth when he refers to EEUU as the empire. They really put it's big nose in every single place on earth. If you doubt it, ask Iran about EEUU preasure to end it's nuclear program or ask Iraq about the massive destruction weapons never found after the war.
And all these gentelmen that complain about what ecuadorian goverment has done to Oxy (ohhh poor baby), they only think about all that money they will have to pay to export their products to the empire. In other words, they want to keep kissing EEUU ass and they want that all the rest of ecuadorians do the same, in order to saver their pockets.
It's a shame.
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But of course USA is an empire. I don't see how that's even a question. We take everything from them: the way we dress, the way we talk, our education ... as a matter of fact .. our entire way of living is influenced by the Americans. We even call them "Americans", as if they are the only ones entitled to be called so. Please, let's not forget that we are not Americans, we are .. "latinos" ...or even worse.. "mexicans"(????!!!)
It's a shame, I agree, and shame on us not to be able to be proud of our own identity and capacities.
Note: Using English to express myself now is just a mere exercise that doesn't define me at all ... but then again, if USA is an empire, we'll be all lost if we don't learn how to communicate properly with our self-chosen oppressors.
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