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 (491)
- Swiss Franc Mortgages: Illegitimate and Illegal
8 October, by Eric Toussaint
- South African Special Economic Zones : History of Limited Successes
8 October, by Eric Toussaint , Patrick Bond , Ishmael Lesufi , Lisa Thompson
- Tsipras and Varoufakis advance towards final capitulation
1 October, by Eric Toussaint
- The Credit Crunch is Back and the Federal Reserve Panics on an Ocean of Debt
25 September, by Eric Toussaint
- The World Bank’s accounts
23 September, by Eric Toussaint
- The Banking Sector and the Global Crisis
18 September, by Eric Toussaint
- The Meltzer Commission on the IFI at the US Congress in 2000
30 August, by Eric Toussaint
- James Wolfensohn switches on the charm (1995-2005)
21 August, by Eric Toussaint
- Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-1995)
10 August, by Eric Toussaint
- The World Bank and the IMF: the creditors’ bailiffs
4 August, 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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