Banksters are conquering Uruguay.

Before read: Sorry for my Sitting Bull english proficiency. If you don’t understand something, tell me in the reddit comments.

Uruguay is being conquered by Banksters.

Our government is forcing us to be inside the banks system, everybody have to have a bank account and receive their salary in in there, it's illigal to receive the payment outside the bank system. They named it "financial inclusion" as a social program, but people here say "financial seclusion" or "obligatory bancarization law", and that really is.

Every business will have to accept credit/debit card, no matter if they are small (micro) business, forcing them to accept debit/credit cards, paying the fees without modify the price, also they have to rent the POS and pay the connection apart, that’s impossible for small sales.

The worst thing is that every 10+/- years there is a banking crisis here, and money magically “disappears” (look for 2002 crisis), if we have all the money in the banks, what will happen in the next bank run ?

This is being the government agenda, as I see:

1- First they begun encouraging to use the debit cards in the media.

2- They allowed people to buy more things outside the country without to pay taxes, but only using Uruguayans visa/master credit/debit cards, because that, a lot of people out of the bank system, asked pre-paid debit cards. Obviously, the commerce criticized that. Then the government made restrictions, gradually, they reduced the amounts and frequencies to buy abroad, but the commerce persist, that’s when they achieved their next goal: control EVERY personal packages entering to the country, also, if a mail is a little thick, the customs inspect it too. Bye privacy.

3- The violence is growing fast, more and more drugs are entering in the country, specially crack, a drug that almost didn't exist before this politicians were elected. In 2009 the president realized 1500 prisoners, the excuse was that the prisons were too overcrowded, saying they selected the least dangerous prisoners, they lied, violence skyrocketed.

So, when the robberies increased, specially in the gas stations, they made mandatory to trade accepting only credit cards at night and recommended citizens to use debit/credit cards for their “safety”. Now they want to edict the mandatory use of credit cards or digital payments systems to pay taxis.

Note: Uruguay is one of the least violent countries in S. America, yet.

Also they are installing cameras everywhere, thousands! but that's another story.

4- They reduced the VAT but only for who purchase using debit/credit cards.

5- Now they made the mandatory bankarization law. Everybody has to get paid via bank accounts, no exceptions. No matter if the person is poor and the closest city with an ATM is 80km far.

6- All business will have to accept credit card payments, do not matter quantities or if it's a little kiosk in a poor neighborhood.

7- The online markets are modifying their systems, for example mercadolibre.com.uy (It’s like the uruguayan ebay) they were famous for the purchases and sales made from person to person, who could agree any payment method, including cash, but the government pushed them to use only in their payment system, similar to PayPal, but allowing the sellers to withdraw the money only through their personal bank account, even if you want to sell small used things.

We can’t rent or buy things like a house, land, car, or something for more than 5,000 dollars (If I remember well) outside the banks.

6- What's next? Suppression of paper money? Forbid bitcoin?

All this means that 1 to 2% of the Uruguayan GDP will go to banksters, in addition to other problems like a big brother government.

There are more things to talk, like the fast foreignization of EVERYTHING, including almost every domestic bank, half part of the Uruguayan lands, etc.

Meanwhile... for the international media, Uruguay is a beautiful and peaceful social liberal paradise. #rollingeyes#

By now, the Uruguayans are more concerned about the privacy and the disadvantage that represents for small business and to access to ATMs, they need to learn and think much more, yet.

So, we are collecting signatures across the country to stop this law, we need 250,000 signatures (We're 3,5millions inhabitants) to present to the Electoral Court to start a national plebiscite. Most of the Uruguayans agree with the initiative, but it's not easy, most of them are locked in their comfort zones, and we don't have resources or important sponsors supporting us.

This publication is to ask help for the bitcoin community, you know better than anybody about banksters.

Please, comment your ideas of how to publicize and encourage people to sign the petition. Mostly, ideas for how to collect bitcoin donations, and how to make people trust that their donations are safe and will be well used.

Another way to help, It’s sharing this reddit publication in Facebook or anywhere.

I was designated to collect signatures in my city but I want to propose to the group to collect bitcoin donations from bitcoiners around the globe.

The group I collaborate is https://www.facebook.com/noalabancarizacionobligatoria

I'm Admin of the facebook Uruguayan bitcoin community in https://www.facebook.com/BitcoinUruguay you can send me messages there. My Twitter is @elgabonomas

The group don’t know yet, this will be an idea to propose to them.

PLEASE, help my country, in any way that you can.

ALL comments are welcome.

You can see any movements made in this wallet, here: https://blockchain.info/address/1GhPcev29R7N5TPws6UpMrbkbrX7UupSwg

All the expenses made with the donated money, will be published here.

Another option is to send to my bank account (ironic, huh?), PayPal or send to my name via Western Union or Money Gram. Contact me to my aforementioned fb page.

When the group had their own bank account, I’ll let you know.

If you want to know more:

https://www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publicaciones/financial-inclusion-in-uruguay/ (english)

http://www.uypress.net/auc.aspx?78591,152 (spanish)

http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/reabren-debate-inclusion-financiera-parlamento.html (spanish)

http://www.elpais.com.uy/economia/noticias/escribanos-piden-cambios-ley-inclusion.html (spanish)

http://www.radiomontecarlo.com.uy/2017/06/28/nacionales/jubilados-buscaran-recolectar-firmas-para-ir-contra-ley-de-inclusion-financiera/ (spanish)