Santander Bank's BRIC Project

February 7, 2010 (LPAC)—Four years ago, London's Spanish bank, Banco Santander, set itself up as a leading player in London's "BRIC" project, the scheme to rope Brazil, Russia, India and China (hence, "BRIC") into playing the British Empire's game of sinking the United States and its dollar—to then sink all nation states.

Santander's BRIC project is run through Fundacion Marcelino Botin, the personal foundation of the Botin family which has run Banco Santander since its founding in 1857. From 2006 to 2009, the foundation, headed by Santander CEO Emilio Botin, held a forum at the Botin foundation headquarters in Madrid centered each year on a different member of the BRIC countries, pulling in leading figures from the governments and policy-making circles for private discussions with members of the foundation and Spanish figures, on what each country's strategic orientation towards the global situation should be. The first seminar, in 2006, was dedicated to China in the 21st Century; in 2007, India was the topic; 2008 was the year to discuss "the political, economic and strategic adjustments to be made by Russia today"; and, in 2009, the cycle concluded with a forum on Brazil's role as an "emergent nation" on the global plane.

Among the participants in the 2008 Russia discussions were former Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, who opened the forum, Anatoli Safonov, the Vice Minister responsible for coordination of counter-terror policy, and the Russian Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Kuznetsov. The high-level Brazilian attendees at the 2009 Brazil forum included the head of the state development bank, BNDES, Luciano Coutinho; President Lula da Silva's special foreign affairs advisor, Marco Aurelio Garcia; and the head of Brazil's private construction giant, Marcelo Odebrecht (of Odebrecht, SA).

It is precisely because the British-controlled, speculative-ridden, bankrupt Santander Bank has been passing itself off to these, and other nations, as the new international cash cow which will pump out new investments in the wake of the collapse of the United States, that Lyndon LaRouche issued his international warning on Feb. 3, that Banco Santander and its British controllers are totally bankrupt, and are going down as the entire world financial system, led by the Eurozone, disintegrates.