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 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 (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. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
Other articles in English by Eric Toussaint (552)
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Rwanda: A look back at the 1994 genocide
6 April, by Eric Toussaint
Série : Ecuador: Progress and limits of resistance to the policies of the World Bank, the IMF and other creditors
Ecuador’s poisoned loans from the World Bank and the IMF31 March, by Eric Toussaint
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The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt
18 March, by Eric Toussaint
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India: Proposals against new attempts to privatise state-owned banks
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Thomas Piketty and Karl Marx: Two totally different visions of Capital
9 March, by Eric Toussaint
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India: from loans to credit since 4000 years and the existence banks for 2500 years
24 February, by Eric Toussaint , Sushovan Dhar
Version 2.0: A new debt trap from the South to the North
The external debt of Developing Countries: a Timebomb22 February, by Eric Toussaint , Milan Rivié
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International appeal for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Russia
17 February, by CADTM , Eric Toussaint , Collective , Tariq Ali , Dianne Feeley , Miguel Urbán Crespo , Gilbert Achcar , Fatima Zahra El Beghiti , Myriam Bregman , Noam Chomsky , Fernanda Melchionna , Suzi Weissman
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Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918
15 February, by Eric Toussaint
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The G20’s wrong solutions and the need to suspend debt repayment
29 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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