Canada Loses Jobs, Honduras Gains Misery
Canada Loses Jobs, Honduras Gains Misery
Posted: 12/14/2013 1:17 am
In March of 2007, Gildan Activewear Inc., a Montreal-based textile manufacturer decided to leave Canada for sunnier climes.
The company laid off hundreds of Canadian workers, and resettled where business was good: Honduras. "Free Trade" legislation facilitated the exodus from Canada, and powerful psychological operations (psy ops) strategies reassured people at home and abroad.
Corporations and their government subsidiaries repeated messaging about "competitiveness and efficiencies" in Canada while Hondurans were promised economic revitalization and jobs. The end result? Canada lost jobs, and Honduras' asymmetrical, toxic economy, was further entrenched.
Honduran sweatshop workers are basically slaves, and their status will likely remain unchanged, or get worse. Since the 2009 military coup --- which removed the democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya, the illegal regime dismantled or corrupted institutions that might be of benefit to humans (including constitutional judges), and it created a heavily militarized and murderous environment.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mark-taliano/canada-job-loss-honduras_b_4438768.html