[Qui-deu-a-qui] ¿alguien se anima a traducir este articulín sobre la deuda en Egipto?

[dani]

buenas,

¿alguien podría traducir este artículo de Nick Dearden, Director de la 
Campaña de la Deuda en el Reino Unido, al castellano?

si alguien puede, por favor, se ponga en contacto conmigo y le diré si 
alguien ya se ha ofrecido a traducirlo...

la cuenta a atrás empieza ya! 5,4,3,2,1...

¡millón de gracias!

dani

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*Egypt's debt must fall with Mubarak's regime*

Nick Dearden

/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 /

In the best tradition of dictators, Hosni Mubarak pillaged Egypt’s 
economy, and leaves office with as much as $70 billion in his family’s 
bank account 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/04/hosni-mubarak-family-fortune> 
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 modest $3 billion for himself 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/13/we-help-dictators-to-steal>. 
As more regimes come tumbling down, so these injustices will multiply.

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.

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 "immensely courageous and a force for good 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/02/tony-blair-mubarak-courageous-force-for-good-egypt>". 


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.

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 £23 million ($37 million) of military equipment in 2008, 
£16 million ($26 million) in 2009 
<http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/countrydata/?country_selected=Egypt>. 
No doubt this came in useful when Egypt became a major centre for the US 
“war on terror” program of kidnapping 
<http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=19084>, secret 
flights and illegal detention and torture.

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 Export 
Credits Guarantee Department 
<http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/TAKE%20ACTION:%20End%20Britain%27s%20Dodgy%20Deals+6263.twl>, 
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.

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.

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.

As well as trying to recover money stolen by their former rulers 
<http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54459>, 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.

Nick Dearden is Executive Director Jubilee Debt Campaign 
UK* (*http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/)**

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