Video: The Ecuador debt audit, a seven minute summary
2 March 2016 by Eric Toussaint , Hugo Arias Palacios , Aris Chatzistefanou
In seven minutes, Eric Toussaint and Hugo Arias, members of the Ecuadorian debt audit commission that sat in 2007 - 2008, summarise its ins and outs, and explain the success of the suspension of payments that Ecuador decided as a result of the commission’s report.
If you want to know more about the situation in Ecuador in the years before the audit, see this video (5minutes): https://youtu.be/1jkw4s1PD_4?list=PLT-wFchlosEEKoNZFUtuZwAIgdfbuSTOV
(You can also choose the first title in the play list.)
These two videos are extracts from Debtocracy, a 2011 documentary that you can see in full here:
https://youtu.be/qKpxPo-lInk
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012 (see here), etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. Since the 4th April 2015 he is the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt.
Other articles in English by Eric Toussaint (440)
- ‘Sooner or later, there will be a new financial crisis’
18 April, by Eric Toussaint , Meera Srinivasan
- The first capitulation of Tsipras and Varoufakis at the end of February 2015
9 April, by Eric Toussaint
- We struggle against illegitimate public and private debt which are at the core of the capitalist system
6 April, by Eric Toussaint
- How mainstream media deal about public debt issues
3 April, by Eric Toussaint
- Socialising the banks: some historical examples
21 March, by Eric Toussaint
- Varoufakis-Tsipras move towards the disastrous agreement with the Eurogroup of 20 February 2015
20 February, by Eric Toussaint
- History shows that it is legitimate to repudiate “odious debt”
16 February, by Eric Toussaint , Vittorio De Filippis
- Russian debt repudiation, 100 years on
12 February, by Eric Toussaint , Nathan Legrand
- The Varoufakis-Tsipras Line was Doomed to Fail from the Word ‘Go’
5 February, by Eric Toussaint
- Varoufakis Surrounded Himself with Defenders of the Establishment
29 January, by Eric Toussaint
Other articles in English by Aris Chatzistefanou (4)
- Audit the debt, cancel it!
8 July 2015, by Aris Chatzistefanou
- Greece’s biggest hospital struggles as austerity cuts bite
16 June 2012, by Aris Chatzistefanou
- Catastroïka
2 June 2012, by Katerina Kitidi , Aris Chatzistefanou
- Greece: The number of malnourished Greek children is rising for the first time since the Second World War
2 November 2011, by Katerina Kitidi , Aris Chatzistefanou
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