Scroll down the above link to the "Criticism" section. Countries that were, or are, under a Military dictatorship whilst being members of the IMF/World Bank have incurred mega-billion dollar debts....leaving the country facing anywhere from 15 to 95 times more debt compared to debts prior to IMF support.
According to John Perkins, former IMF Economic Hit-man; leaders of 'non-member' and 'member' IMF nations, who neither need the IMF loans nor desire to accede to World Bank terms, are first economically coerced, then threatened or assassinated, and if that doesn't work, are replaced through US covert, instigated revolution or outright 'military intervention'. Remember Vice President Dick Cheney set up the covert 'assassination ring', where US Seals were commanded to assassinate specific foreign executives.
At the time dictatorships agree to accept huge IMF loans, they are bound by certain trade conditions. They must agree to these specific conditions or face economic coercion and/or military intervention by NATO and/or US forces. It is these specific trade conditions which leave the country beholding to World Bank and World Trade Organization policies - policies which bring the country economically to its knees. Local working citizens are then faced with under-priced, imported goods flooding their marketplace. Former local manufacturing and farming industries are replaced with a handful of corporate enterprises. Local citizens soon face increasing taxation where none existed before. Thus, while corporate profits leave the country, hundreds of thousands of locals are left unemployed and exploited.
U.S. Money Aids World's Worst Dictators by Benjamin Powell, Matt Ryan The Independent Institute
A History of Friendly Dictators by Dennis Bernstein and Laura Sydell from Eclipse Enterprises trading card series, 1995 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html These dictatorships "are democratic America's undemocratic allies. They may rise to power through bloody ClA-backed coups and rule by terror and torture. Their troops may receive training or advice from the CIA and other US agencies. US military aid and weapons sales often strengthen their armies and guarantee their hold on power".
Friendly dictators as of 1995: Abacha, General Sani ----------------------------Nigeria Amin, Idi ------------------------------------------Uganda Banzer, Colonel Hugo ---------------------------Bolivia Batista, Fulgencio --------------------------------Cuba Bolkiah, Sir Hassanal ----------------------------Brunei Botha, P.W. ---------------------------------------South Africa Branco, General Humberto ---------------------Brazil Cedras, Raoul -------------------------------------Haiti Cerezo, Vinicio -----------------------------------Guatemala Chiang Kai-Shek ---------------------------------Taiwan Cordova, Roberto Suazo ------------------------Honduras Christiani, Alfredo -------------------------------El Salvador Diem, Ngo Dihn ---------------------------------Vietnam Doe, General Samuel ----------------------------Liberia Duvalier, Francois --------------------------------Haiti Duvalier, Jean Claude-----------------------------Haiti Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz, King ---------------------Saudi Arabia Franco, General Francisco -----------------------Spain Hitler, Adolf ---------------------------------------Germany Hassan II-------------------------------------------Morocco Marcos, Ferdinand -------------------------------Philippines Martinez, General Maximiliano Hernandez ---El Salvador Mobutu Sese Seko -------------------------------Zaire Noriega, General Manuel ------------------------Panama Ozal, Turgut --------------------------------------Turkey Pahlevi, Shah Mohammed Reza ---------------Iran Papadopoulos, George --------------------------Greece Park Chung Hee ---------------------------------South Korea Pinochet, General Augusto ---------------------Chile Pol Pot---------------------------------------------Cambodia Rabuka, General Sitiveni ------------------------Fiji Montt, General Efrain Rios ---------------------Guatemala Saddam Hussein ------------------------------------Iraq http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2003/04/10/Exclusive-Saddam-key-in-early-CIA-plot/UPI-65571050017416/ Salassie, Halie ------------------------------------Ethiopia Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira --------------------Portugal Somoza, Anastasio Jr. --------------------------Nicaragua Somoza, Anastasio, Sr. -------------------------Nicaragua Smith, Ian ----------------------------------------Rhodesia Stroessner, Alfredo -----------------------------Paraguay Suharto, General ---------------------------------Indonesia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igp9g-AlQ_g&feature=related Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas -----------------------Dominican Republic Videla, General Jorge Rafael ------------------Argentina Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed ----------------------Pakistan
These mega-billion dollar debts benefit the US and NATO member corporations involved in port construction, oil exploration, military base construction, weapons purchases, highway expansion, power plant installation, and industrial park development....where local citizens simply don't have the skills to participate in such corporate investments....investments which benefit only those affiliated with those corporate projects.