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 (403)
- The Russian Revolution, Debt Repudiation, War and Peace
12 July, by Eric Toussaint
- From Tsarist Russia to the 1917 revolution and the repudiation of debt
7 July, by Eric Toussaint
- Russia: Repudiation of debt at the heart of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917
5 July, by Eric Toussaint
- Down with illegitimate public and private debt
4 July, by Eric Toussaint
- François Houtart, militant internationalist and friend
15 June, by Eric Toussaint
- History of the CADTM Anti-Debt Policies
14 June, by Eric Toussaint , Benjamin Lemoine
- Colombia: Free Madre Tierra (Mother Earth) from capitalism and put cities in the service of the people
29 May, by Eric Toussaint
- Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Illegitimate Private Debt in the global South
26 April, by Eric Toussaint
- How to apply unpopular austerity policies
22 April, by Eric Toussaint
- Thomas Piketty and public debt
21 April, 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
- IMF substantial profits thanks to Greece (2010-2015) 10 July - Dimitri Tzanninis
- UNCTAD organizes a side-event of the Second Committee on Sovereign debt restructurings 27 October 2016 - UNCTAD, - Renaud Vivien
- 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
- 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
- The Greek audit Commission battles on ! 18 November 2016 - Anouk Renaud
- 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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