When Machakos refused to go to the slaughterhouse

It was one of best crafted official cons of the century. The government wanted to generate foreign exchange and at the same time promote a special group of foreign investors who behaved like the real shareholders. Deploying a series of covert and overt machinations spiced with liberal doses of propaganda and cooked statistics, the government got to work to hoodwink gullible villagers to give away their cows for a song.