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
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 (418)
- Reasserting debt repudiation ends with success
20 September, by Eric Toussaint
- Portugal’s Debt Repudiation in 1837
19 September, by Eric Toussaint
- How Tsípras, with Varoufakis’s aid, turned his back on Syriza’s platform
18 September, by Eric Toussaint
- As tensions increase with North Korea, the South Korean miracle is exposed
17 September, by Eric Toussaint
- Debt— Lloyd George blames the Soviets
11 September, by Eric Toussaint
- Genoa (1922): proposals and, counter-proposals on the Tsarist debt
4 September, by Eric Toussaint
- Varoufakis’s questionable account of the origins of the Greek crisis and his surprising relations with the political class
1 September, by Eric Toussaint
- The Soviet counter-attack: the Treaty of Rapallo, 1922
28 August, by Eric Toussaint
- Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination — Part One: Proposals Doomed to Fail
24 August, by Eric Toussaint
- In 1922 creditor powers again attempt to subjugate the Soviets
22 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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- Zoé Konstantopoulou : “The Greek people have not surrendered” 30 September 2016 - Zoe Konstantopoulou, - Rototom
- The Big #TTIPALARM Festival 24 August 2016 - Nick Dearden, - Transnational Institute
- The Greek debt, a European Tragedy 22 July 2016 - CADTM, - Productions du Pavé
- Greece: our struggle against odious and illegitimate debt 11 August - Zoe Konstantopoulou
- Spain: The Municipal Network against Illegitimate Debt held a second successful meeting in Cadiz 17 June - Jérôme Duval, - Fátima Martín
- Venezuela: Resolution of the Continental Assembly of the CADTM AYNA (Latin America and Caribbean) 9 May - CADTM AYNA
- Debt audit: An alternative weapon against state capture 20 February - Mary Serumaga
- For people’s seizure of power: Ten proposals to avoid a repetition of the Greek capitulation 5 January - Eric Toussaint
- We thank all of you – The Ecuadorean government has desisted in its intent to close Acción Ecológica 17 January - Acción Ecológica
- New Witch Hunt in Ecuador Against Indigenous and Environment Defenders 6 January - Moira Birss
- From Dashed Hopes to Success in Ecuador: the examples of South Africa, Brazil, Paraguay and Ecuador 25 August 2016 - 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
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