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.
Version 2.0: The North’s New Debt Trap for the South
Evolution of the external debt of developing countries between 2000 and 201919 January, by Eric Toussaint , Milan Rivié
17 January, by Eric Toussaint
14 January, by Eric Toussaint
29 December 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Olivier Bonfond , Mats Lucia Bayer
23 December 2020, by Eric Toussaint
A new trap of indebtedness of the South to the North - Part 3
Developing Countries caught in the vice-like grip of indebtedness1 December 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Milan Rivié
1 December 2020, by Eric Toussaint , CADTM International , Jean Nanga , Christine Vanden Daelen , Sushovan Dhar , Maria Elena Saludas , Omar Aziki , Rémi Vilain
A new trap of indebtedness of the South to the North - Part 2
Threats over the external debt of Developing Countries27 November 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Milan Rivié
26 November 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Revista Mugica
9 November 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Manoel Barbeitos
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
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
2 November 2011, by Katerina Kitidi , Aris Chatzistefanou