This chapter explores the relationship between corporations and governments in Tanzania and Colombia, highlighting how the government often serves as an intermediary for corporations and fails to defend the rights of citizens affected by corporate attacks. It also discusses the limitations that prevent governments from prioritizing citizen needs over corporate interests, leading to democracy being undermined.
Honduras is being sued for a third of its GDP by an American company—why?
Because the developing nation changed its mind about Prospera building a charter city on its territory. This case, which could bankrupt Honduras, will be judged in a back room of the World Bank by three people, none of whom are obliged to even have a law degree.
Matt Kennard, investigative journalist and author of Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, explains the origin of this shadowy legal system, and how it has infiltrated politics, skews policies, and traps developing nations into exploitative relationships with some of the world’s biggest corporations, definitively undermining the democratic process.
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