Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.

The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.