Reply #21: painful relevance [View All]

[Iverson]

The essential problems of unjust laws or predatory treaties do not disappear just because one party is too poor to be effectively exploited further.

Remember: these multilateral agreements do not just apply to Costa Rica. They apply to all signatories. Once you endorse this way of doing things, it applies to those who CAN be disemboweled on the basis of phantom future profits.

So yes, legal pretext is a relevant point here, and painfully so.

And remember, all this assumes that Costa Rica incurs no penalty because they are too poor. That is likely not a safe assumption at all.