Jubilee South/Americas global call in the face of the Coronavirus Pandemia
Llamamiento global Global Call: Immediate Suspension of Debt Payments and External Debt Cancellation! Allocate these Funds to the Attention and Care of the Population! To face the health and food crisis compounded by coronavirus For over twenty years, Jubilee South/Americas has been demanding the cancellation of our countries’ respective external debts. We have clearly demonstrated its illegitimacy through actions and arguments, showing how the very mechanisms of the debt are contrived to ensure that it will never be paid off, thus guaranteeing the subjugation of our peoples to financial slavery and political dependency at the hands of big imperial capital. It isn´t the peoples’ debt, which is why we affirm “We don´t owe, we won´t pay!” As peoples of the global South, we were not consulted about acquiring these debts. On the contrary, they are external factors that threaten our sovereignties; an example of which is the role that the World Bank and the Internat...
