The World seen from the eyes of an Economic Hitman

The book Confessions of an Economic Hitman, writen by John Perkins, is mainly about the life of this author and how was his life like when he was an economic hitma. In the book he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies. These economic hitmans were also send as part of their jobs to assassinate many important people such as the President of Panama Omar Torrijos, that was killed because some American business leaders and politicians strongly opposed the negotiations between Torrijos and a group of Japanese businessmen led by Shigeo Nagano, who were promoting the idea of a new, larger, sea-level canal for Panama. Media´s speculation about the death of Omar Torrijos was that the plane in which he was traveling had a mechanical error, but after this interesting book, many people began to change their minds. Another important figure assassinated by US agents was the president of Ecuador, Jaime Roldós who was assassinated for opposing the interests of the owners of their countries´ foreign debt. This president´s death was also shown by the media as a plane crash, the same way Omar Torrijos died. 

I recommend this book because of three reasons. The first reason is because it helps you to understand history from another point of view, showing the US as a villain and as the one responsible of the many events that happened around the world. The second reason is because this book helps people to know more about the events that happen all over the world and also learn some history from the countries described in the book. The last reason is because John Perkins, the author of this book, put in danger his life to tell us the reality of many events that changed the history of a country.

Here I leave a web page of some information about what I have just talked about and also a video to understand more the writing.
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man 

Citations:
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions." Democracy Now! N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2014. <http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man>.