Juan Gonzales Quotes
We don’t have to send in troops; we can just call in loans.
Juan Gonzales, Journalist and Author, C-SPAN Book TV, August 26, 2000
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The practice became extensively used and the phrase along with it during the William Howard Taft administration where the media popularized it.
He was out of office when he made this statement.
These loans come from either the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund, both of which are headquartered in Washington. Usually, financially distressed countries participating in such a program have to agree to a series of economic reforms which the government of the country would not make if the pressure were not there. Therefore some like Goldsmith argue that there is a loss of sovereignty.
This quotation is often cited as it presages the concept of the Military Industrial Complex that was given by President Eisenhower in 1961--{641114}. It is not known whether Eisenhower had read or was briefed on this Mills quotation.
This is an excellent example of the delusion that many Southerners functioned under regarding the importance of cotton to the economy of the nation. There were New York merchants and some New England ship owners who profited from the export of cotton, but cotton contributed very little to the economy of the North and the Midwest while it was essential to the South representing a huge percentage of their output. Industrialization was growing all over the country except in the South where slavery and cotton both held it back. When the South finally decided on war, they did not realize that the North would be able to embargo their cotton exports nor did they realize how little the rest of the country needed the cotton industry It was another great example of political hubris.
The Barbary Pirates had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. President Jefferson had first dispatched American warships and authorized a major land operation which were very effective. Finally, a treaty was negotiated but Decatur reminded the Navy of what brought the Algerians to the negotiating table.
The Germans had been looking for an excuse to send military troops into China to establish German zones of control in China. The Germans were not alone in having areas of control and influence in China. England, France, Italy, Holland, Japan and the United States all were vying to control trade on parts of China. The Germans, under Wilhelm, were just a little more heavy handed and gross than the other powers.
Every major Western power and Japan were looking to control parts of China for their own mercantile advantage. The Emperor, her adopted son, had stated that under no circumstances would the Chinese fight, but Cixi issued this decree, in effect, overruling the Emperor—a remarkable occurrence.
Juan Gonzales (born 1948) is an American journalist. He is the founder and was the first editor of the bilingual newspaper El Tecolote. El Tecolote is the longest running English-Spanish newspaper in California.
