A pact is a deal or agreement.
Pact , from the Latin pactum , is an agreement, alliance , deal or commitment whose parties agree to respect what they stipulate. The pact establishes a commitment and establishes fidelity to the agreed terms or to a declaration; Therefore, it requires compliance with certain guidelines.
The violation of an agreement can be punished in various ways, from a legal sanction (in case the agreement has been established under certain legal conditions) to a social condemnation.
For example: "We are going to make a pact: I will not tell your family anything in exchange for you inviting me to dinner" , "Russia and China signed a non-aggression pact that guarantees peace in the border area" , "It is said "that Mick Jagger established a pact with the devil to enjoy eternal youth."
biblical covenant
The biblical covenant appears, according to certain experts, in two ways throughout the Bible .
On the one hand, in the Old Testament or Torah , Moses approaches Mount Sinai with the Israeli community and makes a commitment before God to fulfill his laws. On the other hand, Jesus Christ offers his own person to achieve the salvation of Humanity , an act that is represented in the communion of the mass.
Pacts can be established or expressed in different ways.
Political agreements
Throughout history there have been a multitude of pacts between countries and rulers that, without a doubt, have marked the course of that and the world in general. Among the best known are, for example, the famous Moncloa Pacts that took place in Spain in October 1977.
Specifically, those can be defined as the agreements reached between the then President of the Government (Adolfo Suárez), the various political parties that at that time had representation in the Congress of Deputies, the union Comisiones Obreras and the various associations business type. All of them reached connection points with the clear objective of strengthening the Transition process, which would move from a dictatorial regime imposed by Franco to a democratic system.
The approval of rights such as freedom of expression and assembly, the decriminalization of adultery, measures to control the possible flight of capital abroad or the recognition of the right of union association were some of the main agreements that were signed through the aforementioned Spanish pacts.
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact , also known as the Treaty of Friendship, Collaboration and Mutual Assistance , is a military aid agreement signed by Eastern European countries in 1955 as a counterpoint to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of the Republic. Federal of Germany .
In this way, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) , Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , the German Democratic Republic , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria and Albania undertook to maintain peace among themselves and to collaborate in mutual defense against foreign attacks. .
The term in cinema
In cinema we find various films that have used the pact concept either to title it or to establish its plot. This would be the case, for example, of the film that was known in Spain as "Pactar con el diablo" , from 1997.
Taylor Hackford directed this production, starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino, which revolves around a young lawyer who receives a succulent offer from an important law firm behind which dark secrets are hidden.