Video: The Ecuador debt audit, a seven minute summary
2 March 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
Author
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 (375)
- Greece: Leaders’ Ambivalence regarding debt and the financial system, even though resistance started on a promising note
20 September, by Eric Toussaint , Benjamin Lemoine
- The USA’s repudiation of the debt demanded by Spain from Cuba in 1898: What about Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, etc.?
8 September, by Eric Toussaint
- From Dashed Hopes to Success in Ecuador: the examples of South Africa, Brazil, Paraguay and Ecuador
25 August, by Eric Toussaint , Benjamin Lemoine
- Argentina: The Debt Tango
17 August, by Eric Toussaint
- Argentina: Further Action against Illegitimate Debt
17 August, by Eric Toussaint
- The First Testing Grounds for the CADTM’s Methods to Counter Illegitimate Debt: the examples of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
11 August, by Eric Toussaint , Benjamin Lemoine
- The history of the CADTM and its struggle against illegitimate debt: Origins
2 August, by Eric Toussaint , Benjamin Lemoine
- The International Context of Global Outrage (in 5 parts)
28 July, by Eric Toussaint
- Genoa: the fifteenth anniversary of the great demonstrations against the G8 and Berlusconi’s bloody repression
26 July, by Eric Toussaint
- Simón Bolívar in the Debt Labyrinth
20 July, 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
- Zoé Konstantopoulou : “The Greek people have not surrendered” 30 September - Zoe Konstantopoulou, - Rototom
- The Big #TTIPALARM Festival 24 August - Nick Dearden, - Transnational Institute
- The Greek debt, a European Tragedy 22 July - CADTM, - Productions du Pavé
- Hedge Funds Are Killing Off Schools In Puerto Rico 20 juin - Brave New Films
- The Greek debt, a European tragedy 17 June - CADTM
- Philippines: For debt audit and repeal of automatic debt servicing 26 September - Freedom from Debt Coalition, - Butch Fernandez
- Greece: Leaders’ Ambivalence regarding debt and the financial system, even though resistance started on a promising note 20 September - Eric Toussaint, - Benjamin Lemoine
- Philippines: Duterte’s Budget, Foreign Debts and Pork Barrel 12 September - Business World, - Freedom from Debt Coalition, - YAP D. J.
- Audita Sanidad – Audit Healthcare 7 September - Audita Sanidad
- An open letter to the Most Honourable Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, in response to untruths about the Moroccan public debt 29 August - Salaheddine Lemaizi
- From Dashed Hopes to Success in Ecuador: the examples of South Africa, Brazil, Paraguay and Ecuador 25 August - Eric Toussaint, - Benjamin Lemoine
- Open letter to the President of Ecuador, Rafael CORREA DELGADO 29 December 2014 - Collective
- Oil companies force Ecuador to take another step forward in Audits 23 March 2013 - Stéphanie Jacquemont, - Mike Krolikowski
- The CADTM is pleased at the prospect of collaboration between Tunisia and Ecuador to audit Tunisia’s debt 23 October 2012 - CADTM international
- Intellectuals and world personalities make public their support to the sovereign decision of asylum to Julian Assange 6 September 2012
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