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Quand les multinationales attaquent les États | When the multinational companies sue the states
"Arbitration is a deeply flawed system - it's not fair, not independent, and it's far from balanced," says Canadian law professor Gus Van Harten. From Colombia to Germany via Peru, struggling with the multinational Renco, whose La Oroya lead smelter (the "Chernobyl of the Andes") spits toxic fumes poisoning children, Laure Delesalle (The debt , an infernal spiral?) investigated the mysteries of this opaque justice, with excessive power. Created by the States, with the aim of attracting investors, this system weakens their capacity to legislate on the environment, health, working conditions, all to the detriment of the citizens, who will also have to pay the bill.