Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (pg 182 -219)

Summary
Even though he quit he still keep in touch with old friends who worked in other company's such as the World Bank, USAID, IMF, Bechtel and others. It is now in the late eighties an John is focusing about How Iraq is. Companies like Bechtel and Halliburton were hoping to make deals in Iraq with Saddam Hussein. To economist Iraq was more than a place full of money. He was able to completely quit his consulting Job. Venezuala is a a country whose culture and history is big and its oil production is also big. It has been a prized nation by economists and engineers. Venezuelan oil was being pumped out of the ground for the profit of foreign companies. John visited Ecuador again 35 years after he was in the peace corps. He took in mind how the Amazone Rain forest have went from being full of trees and grass to it now being just weeds. People were asking John about the United States invasion in Iraq. John says that the U.S citizens no little about it and that more people in the Jungles of South America know more about it than them. Reasons behind the difficult situation of the invasion of U.S troops in Iraq is talk about in the last few pages of the book. John says that Saddam Housain would still be in charge if he was able to be bought out by the corporatocracy. John think that one reason for the invasion of the U.S in Iraq is that if the US controlled Iraq and its many oil then the US could have the oil.

Quote
"This time, I had come in order to try to prevent a war for three decades I had helped to provoke" (Perkins 206)

Reaction
He is talking about going back to Ecuador to try and help prevent the war between the U.S and Iraq. It is good that he saw that what he was doing for many years was wrong and that he needs to fix it. I like that he went back and try to help the cause. He felt as if he was a cause of it and i agree with that. Through his experience through life from his young age in the business to old age he learn that there are many things wrong in the world. I can say I am starting to understand more about the problems that are in the world.