“(my job was) to encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes US commercial interests. In the end, those leaders become ensnared in a web of debt that ensures their loyalty. We draw on them whenever we desire - to satisfy our political, economic or military needs. In turn they bolster their political positions by bringing industrial parks, power plants and airports to their people. The owners of US engineering / construction companies become fabulously wealthy.”
Jon Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hitman