Justicia Now Analysis

To begin with, American companies play an effective role in impacting a nation’s economic status. Texaco is an oil subsidiary of Chevron Corporation based in White Plains, New York. Justicia Now is a documentary made in 2007 that exposes the true nature of the oil companies such as Texaco is doing to the land and people of Ecuador. The documentary highlights the tragic results of the constant drilling of oil. There are dangerous toxins that are being released into the land, and as a result, it will deteriorate the health of Ecuadorian people (O’Brien). The rivers, lakes, soil, and the air are marinated in oil. This deeply affects the country’s economy. If the people are too ill to work, the country cannot move forward and advance into a more …show more content…
In the video, he travels to Indonesia. Indonesia is the home to many American manufactured brands like Nike, Adidas, Gap and Reebok. These American brands affect the economic status of Indonesia. These large countries pay each of their workers little to none. The workers get paid 72 rupiah which is equivalent to a one-dollar bill in America (Pilger). Nike and Adidas are multibillion-dollar companies, and they can afford to compensate their workers a little more. It affects the nation because if they continue to pay their workers 72 rupiah, they will continue to live in poverty and struggle to put food on the table. Indonesia’s economy can never improve if these multibillion countries take advantage of the workers. They will continue to heavily rely on these companies thus being in an endless circle of poverty and debt. However, Indonesia is only one out of many countries that are affected by globalism and the end result of modern day imperialism. These two policy goes hand in hand with bigger nations like America and its American companies take all of a smaller nations resources and cause the smaller nation to rely on the larger