The Panama Papers are the biggest leak in history, but the global corruption they exposed is nothing new. On the Senate floor in 2011, Bernie Sanders opposed the U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement, which barred the U.S. from cracking down on illegal and abusive offshore tax havens in Panama.

Watch his prescient speech.

—Posted by Eric Ortiz

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