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Hola a todas y todos<br>
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Os envio esta información por si alguien tiene tiempo y ganas de
escribir una carta al director, artículo, carta al gobierno o
simplemente como información.<br>
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Supongo que sabréis que en el Sur de Sudan ha habido un referendum
sobre la independencia y todo indica a que se va a iniciar el
proceso de nacimiento de un nuevo estado. Segun declaraciones del
presidente del actual Sudan (Bashir) las deudas del país se deben
repartir entre los dos estados, de manera que el nuevo Estado nace
ya con unas deudas que, además, todo indica són ilegítimas. La deuda
del país es de 35 mil millones de dólares, una importante parte
nacida en los 70 y los 80 bajo el régimen del <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaafar_Nimeiry">General Nimeiry</a>
y la otra parte por la acumulación de intereses durante los años de
conflicto en el que el régimen de Bashir dejó de pagar la deuda. <br>
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De esa deuda hay 40,65 millones de euros que se corresponden a
créditos FAD. Una línea de crédito que no sabemos dónde fue (un
crédito inicial en 1978 de 9.5 millones € que actualmente asciende
por acumulación de intereses a 13,2 millones €) y un crédito para
camiones militares (en 1979 por 3,8 millones € que se han convertido
en 4,5 millones €). Ambos créditos fueron atorgados en el período de
dictadura en el que el General Nimeiry se acercó a las potencias
occidentales. <br>
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Además, a raíz del impago de la deuda durante el conflicto armado se
han ido acumulando los intereses de demora (intereses adicionales a
los del crédito por impago) hasta un total de 40,65 millones €. Es
decir, un tercio de la deuda de Sudan con el gobierno español es por
acumulación de intereses. <br>
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Os envío el artículo que han hecho unos compas de inglaterra sobre
el tema. Simplemente para que estéis informadas y por si alguien se
inspira para escribir algo y difundir el tema.<br>
<br>
besos<br>
<br>
Iolanda<br>
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<td>[IllegitimateDebt-Campaign-News] Anyone else working on
Sudan?</td>
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<td>Tue, 1 Feb 2011 10:38:57 -0500 (EST)</td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nick@jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk">nick@jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk</a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:illegitimatedebt-campaign-news@lists.democracyinaction.org">illegitimatedebt-campaign-news@lists.democracyinaction.org</a></td>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><b
style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
11pt;">would be great to have more concrete examples...
</span></b></st1:place></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><b
style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
11pt;"></span></b></st1:place> </p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><b
style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
11pt;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.redpepper.org.uk/born-into-debt/">http://www.redpepper.org.uk/born-into-debt/</a></span></b></st1:place></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><b
style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
11pt;"></span></b></st1:place> </p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><b
style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
11pt;">South Sudan</span></b></st1:place><b style=""><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> should not
be born into debt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Nick Dearden
and Tim Jones, Jubilee Debt Campaign <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><st1:date
year="2011" day="1" month="2"><b style=""><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">1 February
<span style=""> </span>2011</span></b></st1:date><b
style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The nearly
unanimous <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/30/sudan-results-preliminary-support">South
Sudanese referendum result</a> announced over the weekend
is likely to lead to independence for a southern state by
July. But it only marks one step along the road to true
sovereignty for this oppressed and impoverished people. As
south </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">'s oil wealth
has been used to enrich elites in the North for decades, so
it is now being viewed with hungry eyes by the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> and its
allies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The debt which
is inherited by this new state is likely to play a key
element in attempts to assert control on south </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> from the
outside. The Sudanese government in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Khartoum</span></st1:place></st1:city><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> currently has
a debt of $35 billion, large parts of which stretch back to
the 1970s and '80s when <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaafar_Nimeiry">the
regime of General Nimeiry</a> was propped up by the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">. $20 billion
of this debt represents interest, following years of default
by the Bashir regime. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">UK</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> claims </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> owes £650
million ($1 billion) to the Government's <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/REPORT:%20The%20Department%20for%20Dodgy%20Deals+6700.twl">Export
Credit Guarantees Department</a> - the department which
insures some British exports, usually arms, aerospace and
big fossil fuel projects. The department refuses to say what
projects the debt is based on. What we do know is that since
1984 an interest rate of between 10 and 12 per cent has been
charged on this debt, wildly inflating it - in fact new
figures reveal that up-to 90 per cent of Sudanese debt owed
to the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">UK</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> is interest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Justice demands
that south </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> is not handed
a portion of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Khartoum</span></st1:place></st1:city><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">'s debt, but
the International Monetary Fund probably has other ideas.
One suggestion is that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> will be
allocated debt on its inception that will then be cancelled.
No-one should fall into the trap of believing this to be
just - in reality it would mean the southern state would be
forced to go through a lengthy cancellation process, during
which it would probably have to take out new loans to pay
interest on its unjust debts, as well as whatever reforms
the IMF felt like pushing on the country. It would ensure
south </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> could not
escape from the grips of international institutions and
their neo-liberal ideology. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Meanwhile,
popular protests have <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12320534">spread
to Khartoum in north Sudan</a>. Here too, most of the
accumulated debts undoubtedly arose more through
international power play than genuine attempts to improve
the lives of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">'s people. The
people of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> might want to
take a look at the calls of people as far apart as </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Greece</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Bolivia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">, and call <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.eurodad.org/whatsnew/articles.aspx?id=1502">for
an audit of Sudan's debts</a> so they can find out just
what the debts paid for and how legitimate they are. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sovereignty for
south </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> means much
more than a declaration of independence from the north. It
means the people of that country controlling their own
economic development. But with a large debt hanging over
their heads, and reserves of oil ready to plunder, the
people of south </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> will need to
be prepared to continue to struggle for real freedom.<span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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