(english description below)

¿Qué pretende Usted de mí? Mensaje de la Argentina al Fondo Monetario Internacional.

Recontextualizando las famosas frases de la película "Carne" de Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli - mítica estrella del cine argentino y símbolo sexual del siglo XX - protagoniza un nuevo vídeo dirigido por el artista uruguayo Martín Sastre como un mensaje de Argentina al FMI.

"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious"

Oscar Wilde

Early AM on April 24, anti-IMF/World Bank protesters stormed a hotel housing delegates to the IMF Spring Meetings.

Footage edited only for framerate, color balance, audio EQ, and to attach two whole clips together. Shot while zoomed from a VERY cheap camera.

April 23, 2010

Riot police in Athens fired tear gas to dispel a group of protesting youths throwing stones and sticks at police following an anti-IMF demonstration. Jon Decker reports.

Finance ministers from around the world have descended on Washington, D.C. for the annual World Bank/IMF spring meetings. The annul gathering opened with the 20 finance ministers from the worlds leading economies. Top on their agenda were two new bank taxes, climate change and possible reforms to the institutions voting system.

The IMF's annual spring meetings have been going on here in Washington, and we aren't neccessarily going to call it business as usual. Greece is asking for a bailout, the global economy is still in a rut, and now more than ever, the power structures within the IMF itself are being questioned and challenged.

Maurice Carney on the western corporate backing of Joseph Kabila and the corporate pillaging of the Congolese people's resources.

The IMF/World Bank play a key role in softening up local governments and pave the way for corporate takeovers of African countries.

Some of the IMF improvements included the expansion of SDRs to eastern european countries. This happened in June 2009 under Title 14 of the supplemental defense appropriation for Afghanistan. the IMF will never be the same. Title 14 in effect rewrote parts of Breton Woods.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Supplem...,_2009/Title_XIV

Author: Kweldulfur
Keywords: Iceland-Icesave
Added: February 11, 2010

The destruction of Haiti before the destrution.

Washington, Aristide, and the issue of the sale of state-owned enterprises
The events after early 1994 were discussed by Naomi Klein and Aristide in 2005. After that discussion, and after research assistance by Aaron Maté, the following words of Klein were published by The Nation and Now magazine: