Reborn American Giants

Codiz Street, located in the center of the city, clearly belongs to the "center" of the city center of San Salvador, where most of the government agencies that run the country are gathered, including the Independence Palace.

It can be said that the Iturbide Hotel has a place on this high-priced street, which should be entirely attributed to the Spanish Royal Hotel Group behind it.

Even if El Salvador becomes independent, its relationship with its former suzerain country, Spain, cannot be cut off.

Every year, the Spanish royal family holds a New Year's ball, and after every election, the new government prime minister holds a reception. No matter how busy the Salvadoran government is, the head of the Salvadoran government will try his best to fly to Madrid in person and send congratulations.

Since the Spanish Empire weakened and lost actual control over the colonies in the New World, those colonial countries that had been controlled in the past became independent one after another.

El Salvador, a country located on the isthmus of the Yucatan Peninsula, was originally part of the Viceroyalty of Guatemala in 1821, when Spain began to lose control of Central America.

The metropolitan area of ​​Guatemala was transformed into the "United Provinces of Central America" ​​and theoretically became part of independent Mexico.

However, just as Spain was unable to directly rule the "Capital District of Guatemala", the newly born Mexico was also unable to control the Turkish emperors in the isthmus.

Three years later, in 1824, the "United Provinces of Central America" ​​turned over and became the independent "Federation of Central America".

However, the Central American isthmus, which has always been in a state of fragmentation, did not form a unified country because of this. This contradiction prompted this short-lived country to completely split 16 years later into the current Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

Costa Rica and six other countries.

Since the 1980s, Spanish companies' investment in Latin America has shown a rising trend.

According to statistics from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in just five years from 1980 to 1985, Spain’s total investment in Latin America reached about 15 billion U.S. dollars. The investment amount in 1985 was 1980.

Thirty times.

Repsol Petroleum Company alone has invested more than US$7 billion in Argentina.

Telefónica has also invested heavily in acquiring its uncontrolled subsidiaries in Latin America.

The governments of Latin American countries also welcome the entry of Spanish companies. They hope that another "spoiler" will join to compete with the American companies originally in each country.

After several years of development, Spanish companies have established a firm foothold in Latin American countries through various investments and assistance, and their market share has continued to expand.

Telefonica has now become the most important telecommunications service provider in Latin America. Among the telecommunications companies in fifteen Latin American countries, Telefonica accounts for five, and El Salvador is one of them.

What does this mean?

For example, there are currently about 10.5 million installed fixed-line telephones in Latin America. Among them, one in every three calls is completed through lines controlled by Telefonica.

Not to mention the booming mobile phone business today. Anyone with a little vision understands that mobile communications are the real future.

In the financial world, Bank of America, which accounts for 20% of the credit business in Latin America, also belongs to Spain's Santander Group.

Together with Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentalia, it has become the largest foreign bank in Latin America, and its total assets have surpassed Citibank in the United States.

In El Salvador, in 1984 alone, the government received a total of more than 150 million US dollars in aid from the Spanish government. When the provinces of St. Vincent and Usulutan suffered earthquake disasters last year, the Spanish government also donated 24 tons of aid to El Salvador.

various types of disaster relief materials and provided $5 million in disaster relief funds.

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At this moment, Victor was sitting in the cafe in the Iturbide Hotel, listening to the soft music in his ears, looking at the busy streets outside through the clear windows, while unconsciously stirring a glass of Blue Mountain in front of him.

coffee.

This was his first encounter with a "top figure" who controlled the country like Heraidi. He couldn't help but ignore it. He also wanted to test his current strength. When facing Heraidi,

When a real big shot like Dee did, did he have the strength to sit down and be an equal?

His mind was still thinking about Louisa's introduction to him. In order to give him a clearer understanding of Heredi, the controller of the Farben family, Louisa detailed everything about his uncle.

It was analyzed in front of Victor.

According to her, Khredifa is a man with a tough character and a clear goal. In order to achieve his goal, he does not hesitate to use any means.

And his real goal, only people like Louisa, a real member of the Farben family, can get a glimpse of it from his daily words and deeds.

When talking about the goal, Louisa said this, "...In his view, our country has experienced more than half a century of military dictatorship, and foreign capital has entered on a large scale, and in the following decades,

Turning several Central American countries, including El Salvador, into tropical cash crop production areas under their influence and control.

And because our national economy and national income are extremely dependent on the export of tropical cash crops, the government soon has to make repeated concessions to large consortiums controlled by foreign capital. The cost of these concessions is usually borne by the country's workers and national capital.

This method of economic plunder also has another result.

In order to pursue profits, most of the land in El Salvador began to be concentrated in the hands of more than a dozen large families. A large number of farmers went bankrupt and became plantation workers. Four-fifths of the country's coffee exports were controlled by foreign companies. This formed an extreme situation.

Unequal land distribution system.

At the same time, the unsatisfactory development of "import substitution industrialization" has turned El Salvador into what it is today, with a single economic source, a political economy that is greatly influenced, penetrated and controlled by foreign agricultural companies, and the domestic government is authoritarian, corrupt and weak.

"one.

In the current situation of the civil war, under the premise that the outbreak and progression of the civil war are related to whether the current government can continue to exist, these issues have all been placed in a secondary position."

"so……"

"So, my uncle once told us once that he was very sure about his speculation about the political changes in El Salvador. That is, he was not optimistic about President Jose's political future. He believed that even if Jose's support in the United States one day

Now that he is the number one person in the country, he can only control San Salvador or a few other relatively important areas.

On a national scale, if he wants to take control of local powers, it will take at least ten years, or even more. Unfortunately, God will not give him so much time.

Moreover, during this period, President Jose must be busy consolidating his position in the Independence Palace. As for the actual local power, it will continue to be controlled by those powerful factions from the original military government era.

His plan to seize local power through political reform has no chance of being realized."

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