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 Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), 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, 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. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
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Two hectic weeks in Argentina, against the agreement with the IMF
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Rethinking alternatives to counter the surge of debts to be repaid
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A Book that brings odious debt back into the limelight
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Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918
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Rosa Luxemburg and debt as an imperialist instrument
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Two centuries of sovereign debt conflicts
13 January, by Eric Toussaint
Other articles in English by Hugo Arias Palacios (1)
Ecuador
We denounce the renegotiation of the debt by Lenín Moreno’s government3 August 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Maria Lucia Fattorelli , Alejandro Olmos Gaona , Hugo Arias Palacios , Piedad Mancero , Ricardo Patiño , César Sacoto , Ricardo Ulcuango
Other articles in English by Aris Chatzistefanou (4)
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Audit the debt, cancel it!
8 July 2015, by Aris Chatzistefanou
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Greece’s biggest hospital struggles as austerity cuts bite16 June 2012, by Aris Chatzistefanou
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Catastroïka2 June 2012, by Katerina Kitidi , Aris Chatzistefanou
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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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