It's a case of having your cake and eating it, Rafa. You can't screw around serious, responsible investors that you proclaim as wanting to attract to the country and then later moan that investment has dropped away. Stands to reason. The vast majority of miners I know/know of in Ecuador are serious players and good corporate citizens. You tar them with the same brush as the speculative capital movers you despise, and this is what happens. All they want is a level playing field, you know..............

This goes straight to the heart of what I've been saying lately.

Neo-socialists refuse to acknowledge any difference between industrialists and capitalists. To them, they are one and the same. Henry Ford is no better than Baron Rothschild in their book.

Neo-socialists see the sin of greed, and respond with the sin of avarice. To them it is intolerable that a single man or nation be richer than another. To them, it is evidence of high crime, not of skill or good fortune.

But the true crime - the crime against humanity - is the utterly arrogant assumption that THEY know best what's good for everyone else. That they are somehow more enlightened than the rest of us, and should therefore rule in our place.

Not that this attitude is unique to neo-socialists. It's the foundational premise of all totalitarian orders.

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