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National and International Conference on Central Banks, the Financial System and Economic Development

6 December 2023 - by Eric Toussaint, Pablo Laixhay

Éric Toussaint was invited to open the second day of the National and international conference on central banks, the financial system and economic development, held in Bogota on 23 and 24 November 2023 with the active participation of the (...)
Call for the Suspension of the EU – Colombia Free Trade Agreement

18 June 2021 - by Group of signatories

Brussels, June 14, 2021 Ms. Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission Mr. Josep Borrell High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice President of the European Commission Mr. Valdis (...)
How pension funds shape financialisation in emerging economies in Colombia and Peru

17 December 2020 - by Bruno Bonizzi, Jennifer Churchill, Diego Guevara

In early spring 2020 emerging economies (EEs) were hit by the largest ever episode of portfolio outflows. Stock and bonds were sold as investors flight to safer investments in Europe and the United States, showing once again the fragile nature (...)
The People of Colombia Are Cracking Up the Walls of War and Authoritarianism

20 January 2020 - by Justin Podur

The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia’s central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken promises of the peace accords have persisted for two months and grown into a protest against the whole (...)
Meet the frontline activists facing down the global mining industry

7 February 2018 - by Hannibal Rhoades, Tatiana Garavito, Sebastián Ordóñez

Activists are defending land, life and water from the global mining industry. Tatiana Garavito, Sebastian Ordoñez and Hannibal Rhoades investigate. Leaders from the frontlines of mining struggles in the Philippines, Colombia and Uganda (...)
Colombia: Free Madre Tierra (Mother Earth) from capitalism and put cities in the service of the people

29 May 2017 - by Eric Toussaint

Bogota, 2600 m altitude, 7.5 million inhabitants. Sunday 30 April, Daniel Libreros, facilitator of the ecosocialist movement, Camila C. (23) and John F. (24), members of CADTM in Colombia picked me up at 8:30 a.m. at the city centre hotel to (...)
Debt as a Primeval Weapon of Dispossession

Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Illegitimate Private Debt in the global South

26 April 2017 - by Eric Toussaint

The “debt system” is gathering steam In Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, just as in the highly industrialized countries, after going through several fundamental changes over the past 40 years. Mainly since the outbreak of the Third (...)
Developing countries: dangerous times for the internal public debt

11 October 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

Since the second half of the 1990s, the internal public debt of the world’s developing countries has increased significantly. This increase is now reaching alarming proportions in a number of middle-income countries. While some very poor (...)
Colombians Protest Economic Policies

21 October 2004 - by Garry Leech

Last week, more than one million Colombians marched through the streets of cities throughout the country to protest President Alvaro Uribe’s economic policies. More than 300,000 crowded into Bogotá’s Plaza Bolívar where they burned a U.S. flag and (...)
Dogmatic Development: Privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

7 April 2004 - by War on Want, PSIRU

This report looks at how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services. It focuses specifically on the sectors of water, electricity, and (...)
Coffee and State Authority in Columbia

5 January 2004 - by Josh Frank

The debt has forced the country to expand production of exports to generate hard currency. This macro-expansion has contributed to the overproduction of coffee beans. The impact has been great, as export revenues for multinational corporations (...)
Colombia’s Neoliberal Madness

20 January 2003 - by Garry Leech

Why would Colombia agree to implement severe economic austerity measures that hurt the majority of Colombians in return for a loan it doesn’t really need (a “stand-by loan”)? The answer lies in the complex military/economic relationship that exists (...)