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The Debt of the Dictators is a INSIGHT documentary project about illegitimate debt.
The 58 minute film had its premiere at the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre in January 2005. It received very good critiques from the audience and the local press.
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More than 300 organizations worldwide in over 40 countries, have ordered our film "The Debt of the Dictators". Its popularity has led to that it now exists in four languages, English, French, Spanish and Portugese. The Jubilee Campaign has decided to use the documentary in its impressive work to end all debt from dictators anywhere in the world.
In the film you will learn that "the international banks know all the prices, but have no values".
You may have this film for free by contacting Norwegian Church Aid (www.nca.no).
About the film:
Journalist Erling Borgen has travelled to three different continents in order to describe how one-fifth of all developing countries debt are loans which was given to support brutal dictators and their regimes in the past.
Today, the poor locals have to struggle in deep poverty because of the former dictators ability to spend money on themselves, and the rich countries in the world do not want to let the poor countries off their financial hook.
The INSIGHT team found good examples on illegitimate debt in Argentina, South Africa and The Philippines, and we invite the viewers along to a journey they will not forget. INSIGHT goes behind the local tourist attractions, and visits the poor neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, the depressing townships of Johannesburg, where poor youngsters desperately are looking for jobs, and the journey ends in the Manila slum.
The film shows in an excellent way how ordinary Argentinian, South African and Phillpine lives are heavily influenced by the debt incurred by the Argentine military dictatorship, the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa and the corrupt President Marcos in the Philippines.
The history shows the sad fact that even when the corrupt dictators and generals committed the most horrifying human rights violations in their highly undemocratic regimes, the large banks of the world were lining up to offer billion-dollar loans.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had few objections when they lent money to regimes and countries which were denounced by the whole world.
The film asks the question whether it is fair that innocent poor people in the world today should pay the debt of their dictators in the past.
http://www.erlingborgen.com/
