A dollar for the smuggling

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Assault weapons are sold to lorry’s price
A dollar for the smuggling
By: Carlos Damián March 18, 2012
The process of capitals stinks to green aroma
México. - Ministry of Internal security of The States, Janet Napolitano said in last Monday, 30 of January that “fast and furious” operative that carry it out, motivate it and created artificially by Washington to introduce Mexico approximately two thousand firearms dedicated to a Mexican cartel, “serious errors were made (that) they won't repeat again". In this line of information: the Global signature Financial Integrity (GFI) it emitted a document in of the one that affirms that China, Mexico and Russia have been the countries with more illicit financial flows, and according to that entity, between 2000 and 2008 Mexico it exported capitals of illicit origin for 416 thousand million dollars.

The figure that gives an annual average of more than 50 thousand millions, it is very above that that the authorities like the Ministry of Treasury when it had as executive Ernesto Cordero; they recognize like presence of not accountable money in the national economy: between 10 thousand and 19 thousand million dollars. GFI said, only in 2007 there was in the country “a salient flow of illicit capital” of 91 thousand million dollars that the following year decreased to 68 thousand 500 millions. The statements of Napolitano and the figures have more than enough illicit money that they are introduced in formal economies, seemingly unconnected matters, they have a common denominator: so much the traffic of weapons as the laundry of money distant of being marginal phenomenon in the economy contemporaries. They constitute regular, common business and part of the industrial, commercial and financial scaffolding of the world, included Mexico and The States.

Nations with more illicit financial flow
According to the signature GFI, in the titled analysis, ‘Mexico: financial flows, macroeconomic imbalances and the submerged economy’. The list of countries that they presented bigger operations financial illegal was product of a study elaborated in 160 countries. Raymond Baker (RB), director of this company of American origin of private character, specified that him calculate obtained of the reports of the World Bank (WB) and of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) they refer that at least in the period 1970 - 2010 the flows of illicit money went by the Mexican financial system they reached 872 thousand million dollars. It is obtained money of acts of corruption and of the escape of taxes, not of crimes made by the organized crime.

RB explained that these calculations are conservative he said, since they were obtained without including factors like drug traffic, people's smuggling and other bound crimes to activities of the delinquency. We are before conservative data. In Mexico we consider that 872 thousand million dollars have been transferred in the 40 year-old periods that it goes from 1970 to 2010. This is a figure that grows decade with decade. Year with year we make this classification, of the one that “the first place China occupies it, Mexico corresponds it the second place continued by Russia", RB informed. To reduce the illicit flight of capitals, the group pointed out the convenience of expanding the agreements of double tribute: to demand an automatic and trans-border exchange of fiscal information about personal and corporate bills, to improve the supervision to reduce the tendency to bribes and to watch over the irregular financial centers.

Smuggling of capitals in the world
Of this traffic of money and weapons it is certain that USA obtains unquestionable benefits. Of the second it allows it to exploit markets for an important sector of their economy, and in the context of operative bankrupt American, the one is remembered executed by the dependence of control of alcohol, tobacco and firearms (ATF), dependence of the Department of Justice, denominated ‘open receiving', in that that, beyond all doubt, it constitutes a regular practice of Washington: the illegal export of assault weapons dedicated to criminal groups and cartels.

For that it makes to the illicit money, certainly they contribute the matter it prevails to the laundry of money, activity that, in turn, it generates voluminous resources that it lets entities financial and Americans bank they represent juicy business like those that it made the Bank Wachovia between 2004 and 2007: a handling of illicit funds for more than 378 thousand million dollars in to triangle the funds with exchange’s houses located to the south of the Grande River, and as those that have recognized, among other corporations, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup, American Express and Western Union.

The exposed data point out, also the inequalities that extend, beyond the economic formality, for the environment of the illicit thing: while in a case The States takes place, it sells and it traffics weapons that kill many Mexicans as cockroaches, in the other part of the country that is narrated, with its poverty, and its fall social behind, it has become a net exporter of illicit capitals that they represented 8.8 percent of the GIP in the 2007. In accordance with GFI, the phenomenon was shot soon after the entrance in vigor of the North Agreement Free of Trade of America (NAFTA) that facilitated the billing, fraudulent in a massive way. It is this, one of the undesirable consequences that the Mexican authorities were not able to foresee in their moment. Is the disturbing question that arises, how is it possible that both governments didn't detect the laundry of money like part of the financial activities? When we formulating the official economic limits. (La Jornada, economia, p.p. 4 - 8, January 31, 2012).