Swiss bankers kill without machine guns, Jean Ziegler
\chapter{Swiss bankers kill without machine guns}
\chapterauthor{Jean ZIEGLER}
Thanks to its banking secrecy, its numbered accounts, the law of free convertibility, the cynicism and the extreme technical competence of its bankers, Switzerland is today the safe deposit box of the world.
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Here are examples referring to an analysis period of just over ten years.
\section{1. Filipinos}
In 1986, Ferdinand Edralin Marcos again rigged the national elections. One too many times... The popular insurrection sweeps Manila.
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Its main activity: smuggling with Taiwan and Hong Kong. The three names of the child indicate the drama of his birth:
Ferdinand Chua, a wealthy Chinese merchant, fell in love with the very young Josefa Edralin. Josefa is beautiful, cheerful, intelligent, but poor. In addition, she is Filipino.
The Chua clan vetoes marriage (Ferdinand Chua will marry a Chinese heiress of Fukien). It's the break. But Josefa is pregnant.
His family belongs to the traditional Catholic milieu of the North, a bigoted, cruel milieu that does not forgive the "illegitimate" birth.
His family belongs to the traditional Catholic milieu of the North, a bigoted, cruel milieu that does not forgive the “illegitimate” birth.
She is desperately looking for a husband for the sinner... and a father for the child who will be born. A schoolboy from the village, poor like Job, aged fourteen, will do the trick: Mariano Marcos.
The teenager is violent, cunning, ambitious. He will be the social model of the child who will grow up at his side.
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In the spring of 1998, only a small fraction of the loot returned to the Philippines.
\section{2. Haitians}
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Like Moloch, the Swiss multinational banking oligarchy feeds on the flesh, the blood of the captive peoples, bound to tribute, of the three poorest continents of our planet.
Jean Ziegler
\rauthor{Jean Ziegler}
Jean Ziegler is a Member of Parliament for Geneva in the Parliament of the Swiss Confederation; Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva.
He has just published: \emph{Les Seigneurs du Crime, les nouvelles mafias contre la démocratie}[The Crime Lords, new mafias against democracy], Éditions du Seuil 1998, 308 pages.
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