Reborn American Giants

The next day's newspapers unabashedly published extremely exaggerated and exciting content.

"San Salvador Daily News": The presidential motorcade left directly after hitting someone and injuring someone.

"United Chronicle": President Jose traveled in a high-profile manner, but after injuring someone, he left without care.

"Today" found an ingenious way to interview the person involved in the incident. The injured person stroked her head with her hand in fear and said that she only participated in the "Castagne" event to protest the government's inaction during the financial crisis.

Protests organized by the "La" movement.

Unexpectedly, he was hit by the president's car at the protest site. He was dizzy on the spot and didn't know what happened. He was sent to the hospital and received about three stitches on his head. Now he is fine.

However, the Independence Palace has not expressed its position on this incident, nor has it sent anyone to the hospital to visit her, which makes the injured person very disappointed.

Regarding the situation of the injured, Mr. Morales, the head of the Castanera Movement, said.

"President Jose should concentrate on handling government affairs in the Independence Palace in the future, and stop pretending to be acquaintances outside..."

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This public stranglehold on the Independence Palace has entered the final stage. Under these media reports, Jose Napoleon Duarte's support rate has dropped to an unacceptable level.

Victor was holding a cigarette in his mouth, holding a wine glass in one hand, and holding a newspaper in the other hand, frowning at the reports in the newspaper.

It seemed that Jose was dead, and there was a complete feud between the party headquarters, leaving him without his last supporter.

The problem now is that Amfilo wants to cause as little impact as possible, and is still making careful preparations to contact several big bosses in the military, hoping that after he comes to power, the military can support him as soon as possible.

To stabilize the situation and people's hearts.

As for the Americans, Victor now sees clearly that the U.S. government does not really care who comes to power in these small Latin American countries.

Because no matter who comes to power, they cannot ignore the voice of the Americans.

Because President Underwood finally formally expressed his support for the dire economic problems of Latin American countries at the special "War and Peace" conference held in Chapudepec, Mexico some time ago.

At the meeting, the Americans exchanged views with participants from Latin American countries on international commodity agreements, Latin American countries' control of foreign investment, prices of raw materials and industrial products, and economic assistance.

President Underwood expressed different views on these issues, but in order to avoid disagreements, Clayton, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs who was present at the meeting, proposed convening a special meeting in June to focus on solving the economic problems of Latin American countries.

Latin American countries are now trapped in a "debt crisis" and urgently need assistance from the United States, a major northern country.

For example, Mexico, a country rich in oil, due to the skyrocketing oil prices in the 1970s, the U.S. dollars stored in European and American countries quickly flowed to the Soviet Union, the Middle East and Latin America's Mexico and Venezuela.

In order to implement their "petrodollar recycling plan" and at the same time attack the economy of the Soviet Union, the biggest Cold War rival, the British and American consortium forced Saudi Arabia, OPEC's "mobile oil producer", to increase production. The international oil industry ushered in its first crisis.

The second "oil crisis".

Affected by the plummeting international oil prices, the Mexican government's fiscal revenue has plummeted. In order to further develop the domestic oil industry and accelerate economic development, the Mexican government borrowed large amounts of short-term foreign debt from European and American banks.

external debt.

However, in response to the oil crisis, the Federal Reserve adopted a tough monetary tightening policy, raising the originally ultra-low federal funds rate from 11.2% in 1979 to a record high of 19% in 1982, and raising the loan interest rate to 21.5%.

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As a result, the U.S. money market has risen rapidly, attracting a large amount of capital to flow to the United States. In order to avoid the outflow of their own capital, other major capitalist powers have also successively increased their domestic money market interest rates, thus forming a worldwide interest rate

Rise significantly.

For debtor countries like Mexico, most of the foreign debt they borrow is based on variable interest rates, which increases the burden on the debtor country.

Affected by this, the Mexican government faced a large amount of short-term foreign debt that was due and needed to be repaid, and could only announce a statement that shocked the international financial community: the country was unable to fulfill its debt repayment obligations on time.

Mexican Finance Minister Herzog called U.S. President Underwood, Federal Reserve Chairman Volcker and others for help.

The claim that Mexico has exhausted its foreign exchange reserves and is unable to continue repaying its debt marks the outbreak of the Latin American debt crisis.

After the crisis broke out, the economies of Latin American countries were severely impacted, and the inflation rate continued to rise. The inflation rate in 1982 was 47.5%, rose to 163.4% in 1984, and worsened to 610% in 1985. During the same period, the unemployment rate in Latin American countries averaged as high as 15

%, exceeding 20% ​​in some countries, and real wages have generally declined, with Costa Rica falling by 50%, Brazil and Argentina falling by 20%.

At the same time, the debt crisis also triggered a serious currency crisis. The currencies of Latin American countries generally depreciated, and the banking industry also suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, Victor estimates that at this meeting, Latin American countries may only be able to passively further endure the conditions imposed by the Americans, such as eliminating trade barriers, eliminating all forms of economic nationalism, providing guarantees for foreign investment, etc., which will have a negative impact on the U.S. economy.

Favorable conditions for expansion.

Therefore, in the next period of time, the economic power of the United States in Latin American countries will definitely expand rapidly.

Therefore, in Victor's eyes, the U.S. government's support for President Jose is not as unwavering as it seems.

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"Oh, it's comfortable, it's comfortable." Coming out of the bathroom, Bossano changed into a white bathrobe. He pulled on a pair of cotton slippers and wiped his wet hair with a towel while making a strange noise.

He groaned: "No wonder people often say that it is bitter first and then sweet. Hehe, now that I think about it, this sentence seems simple, but now it sounds full of charm.

I had never thought that taking a hot shower after a heavy rain would be so refreshing. It’s really a shame!”

"What a bullshit you are," Victor said angrily, sitting on a huge massage chair.

He could naturally hear the true meaning of Bossano's words.

On the surface, he was talking about taking a bath and feeling refreshed, but in fact, he was lamenting his recent fate.

It was bitter at first and then sweet, because the Palace of Independence rejected the acquisition of Pregreso Media by his United Press Group, which made Bossano's efforts to further control the media industry in El Salvador in vain.

But no one could have imagined that now that President Jose suddenly fell into crisis, Bossano, who was originally full of indignation, started to gloat and watch the good show.

"Hey," Bossano ignored Victor's sarcasm. He sat down on an empty sofa chair next to him, opened his hands, and asked the person standing next to him who was wearing a pink butt-covering short skirt and maroon long skirt.

The beauty with hair stretched out her hand to remove his bathrobe, then leaned down on the massage chair, closing her eyes and enjoying the massage from the beauty's slender fingers.

"After all these years, the person who really understands me is you, Victor." After enjoying it for a while, Bossano turned his head and said to Victor: "To be honest, the methods of you politicians are really roundabout.

Brain, if you hadn't told me about that old guy Amfilo's plan, I probably wouldn't have thought that he actually wanted to replace me."

"You mean to compare me with those people?" Unexpectedly, Bossano would suddenly say something like this. Victor glanced at the other party's extremely unsightly posture and asked with his eyes wide open.

"No," Bossano raised his upper body and said with a cheeky smile: "I want to remind you that you have to be careful about that old guy Amfilo crossing the river and burning the bridge.

As the saying goes, the heart is separated from the belly. Outsiders can never guess your own thoughts.

Our Vice President has reached this point, and we don’t care whether it is because of greed or ambition.

But one thing has to make me worry, and that is whether we will suffer the same fate as President Jose if we hinder him and become a stumbling block for him in the future."