Desestabilização e guerra econômica no sistema Ferro-Portuário de Moçambique, 1980 -1992

Abstract

The present work has as its object of study the railway and port system of Mozambique. The objective is essentially to demonstrate that between 1980 and 1992 the system was the victim of two basic processes of South African destabilization: military destabilization and economic war. Based on the hypotheses raised, we argue that the two processes were concomitant and that the military destabilization that constituted a South African innovation against the Mozambican rail-port system was carried out, to a large extent, directly and indirectly through RENAMO. While the economic war that constituted the sophistication of economic competition with a destabilizing character was carried out directly against Mozambique and indirectly in the countries that use its rail-port system through the diversion of traffic to the South African system. Within the scope of military destabilization, we can distinguish three crucial moments: the period between 1980-1984; 1984-1988 and 1989-1992. Within the scope of economic warfare, we can see three main processes: political-economic coercion; the alliance between containerization and capital in the manipulation of traffic and routes; cost reduction and application of contractual tariffs in the choice of routes. In addition to these main chapters and before making the final conclusions, the work includes a fourth chapter that analyzes the impact and implications of military destabilization and economic warfare in the rail-port system of Mozambique and where it is concluded that in several ways, they were extremely negative (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)