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<div id="ygrp-text">buenas,<br>
<br>
¿alguien podría traducir este artículo de Nick Dearden,
Director de la Campaña de la Deuda en el Reino Unido, al
castellano?<br>
<br>
si alguien puede, por favor, se ponga en contacto conmigo y le
diré si alguien ya se ha ofrecido a traducirlo...<br>
<br>
la cuenta a atrás empieza ya! 5,4,3,2,1...<br>
<br>
¡millón de gracias!<br>
<br>
dani<br>
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<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Egypt's
debt must fall with Mubarak's regime</span></b><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 14pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nick Dearden</span><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The
debts of Egypt and Tunisia must be cancelled if the
people on the streets of Cairo and Tunis are to take
control of their economy and hold Western countries to
account </span></i><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">In the best tradition
of dictators, Hosni Mubarak pillaged Egypt’s economy, and
leaves office with as much as <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/04/hosni-mubarak-family-fortune"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">$70
billion in his family’s bank account</span></a> while
he bequeaths $30 billion in debt to the Egyptian people.
Zine el Abidine Ben Ali leaves $15 billion to the people
of Tunisia, taking a more <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/13/we-help-dictators-to-steal"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">modest
$3 billion for himself</span></a>. As more regimes
come tumbling down, so these injustices will multiply. </span><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The true creditors of
Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere are not the Western states
who used loans to prop up their tough guys across the Arab
world – they are the people of these countries who
suffered under this rule. The West must now repay those
debts by opening up their lending to public scrutiny,
returning the assets of Mubarak and his cronies that have
been banked in Europe and the US, and cancelling unjust
debts across the Arab world. The Egyptian people must not
continue to pay the bill for Western complicity through
large debt repayments. </span><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">It is too easy for
American and British leaders to issue warm words to the
people of these police states who have endured corruption,
torture and violations of human rights for decades. In
fact Tony Blair has been the most honest appraiser of the
situation. While most Western leaders dropped Mubarak so
fast that you wonder how his desperately unpopular regime
clung onto power for so long, Britain's former Prime
Minister called his one time ally "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/02/tony-blair-mubarak-courageous-force-for-good-egypt"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">immensely
courageous and a force for good</span></a>". </span><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">For the US and
Europe, Mubarak was indeed an excellent client. Egypt
repays its loans, many of which were undoubtedly run up in
the interests of the regime rather than the people, at a
rate of around $3 billion a year. This money has diverted
what could otherwise have been used to improve the lives
of ordinary Egyptians. Since 1981, Egypt has paid the
equivalent of $80 billion dollars in debt and interest
repayments, helping redistribute money from Egypt's poor
to the global rich. </span><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Some of the country's
debt is undoubtedly military in nature. Egypt receives
more US military support than any country in the world
apart from Israel – well over $1 billion a year since
Mubarak came to power in 1981. The British Government has
allowed UK companies to supply Egypt with as much as <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/countrydata/?country_selected=Egypt"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">£23
million ($37 million) of military equipment in 2008,
£16 million ($26 million) in 2009</span></a>. No doubt
this came in useful when Egypt became a major centre for
the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=19084"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">US “war
on terror” program of kidnapping</span></a>, secret
flights and illegal detention and torture. </span><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Egypt currently owes
nearly £100 million ($160 million) to the UK. Although the
Government refuses to say what Egypt's debt is based on,
we know that it relates to British exports through the
controversial <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/TAKE%20ACTION:%20End%20Britain%27s%20Dodgy%20Deals+6263.twl"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Export
Credits Guarantee Department</span></a>, largely based
on sales which took place early in Mubarak's rule. This
shadowy Government department insures British business
working in ‘risky’ parts of the world – usually supporting
arms, aerospace and fossil fuel industries. </span><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Tunisia faces a
similar situation – under Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, the
country made repayments well in excess of $40 billion.
Again, Ben Ali served Western interests while suppressing
his people who finally rose up against his rule in
January. </span><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">When people have
begun to take control of their countries in the past –
from apartheid South Africa to Bolivia, from Argentina to
Poland – debt has been used as a key means of forcing
undemocratic economic policies on those countries. These
policies have caused great pain and suffering to the
poorest in those societies, and put a block on democracy
extending in any way into the economic sphere. If the
revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt genuinely usher in a new
era of independence for the people of those countries and
if, as seems likely, the spark which has been lit in North
Africa spreads across the Arab world, the next step will
be holding to account those responsible for decades of
kleptocratic and brutal rule. </span><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">As well as trying to
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54459"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">recover
money stolen by their former rulers</span></a>, this
means questioning the legitimacy of the debt that kept
those rulers in power. It is time for the peoples of North
Africa to break their chains of debts which have already
helped suppress freedom and development for a generation.
</span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';
font-size: 10pt;"><o></o></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% white;" class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:
'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nick Dearden is
Executive Director Jubilee Debt Campaign UK</span><b><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> (</span></b><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/">http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/</a>)</span><b><span
style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"><o></o></span></b></p>
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