IMF CRISIS AND THE BISHOP OF THE POOR

IMF CRISIS AND THE BISHOP OF THE POOR

The government of Bishop Fernando Lugo will drop by their agreements with the IMF and not as a result of coup plotters, according to an analysis published by Alter Media.

http://altermediaparaguay.blogia.com/2009/022401-excluidos-ayer-con-el-neofascismo-excluidos-hoy-con-fernando-lugo.php

“The famine, mass unemployment and pests are befallen the Paraguay, and the rest of the planet. Fernando Lugo betting formula capitalist IMF, its dogmatic economy minister suggests. Neither will be required for any coup plot to topple Lugo’s government, the government will fall by itself, trapped in his stifling ‘party elite “ruling the commentary.

The Plan of Dionisio Borda, minister of Bishop Fernando Lugo, more than an anti-crisis plan is an Antichrist, said yesterday heard the announcer and analyst Raul Melamed.

The Deputy Minister of Labor, Raul Mongelos, did his part by statements to the press commenting on the first effects of the global crisis in Paraguay. According to the official, about 4 industries require the cessation of activities per week, when the average was only one. In the month of January, about 20 businesses and shops closed down and, from December 1 to mid-January, 11 other industries requested the suspension of contracts with their workers. During the first months of 2009, the number of job terminations rose to 849, all three in 2008.
Since the outbreak of the crisis, according to official figures, more than 2,500 Paraguayans were unemployed. Unofficial data about 6000. These data are in a setting where more than 60 percent of the layoffs are not registered by the Ministry of Labor. This is not counting the thousands returning from Spain or Argentina and we swell the ranks of the unemployed.
In other cases, in addition to layoffs, employers regulate production based on their estimate of profit. Such is the case of known Manufacturing Pilar, where the company proposed to work only three of the four weeks of the month.

The Workers’ Party, also warned about an increase in the Criminal debt:. “The plan of Lugo and his economic team is proposing to spend over 2,000 million dollars to” meet the credit and financial needs of the productive sectors, “giving” contingency appropriations, grants and public-private participation. ”

The government of Lugo-PLRA-PT-added increased criminal aims of the external debt of the country and implement major privatizations. Dionisio Borda announced that 50 percent of the funding package will come from an IDB loan of over 1.185 million dollars, of which 500 million has been made available. It is also planned another loan of $ 100 million from the World Bank. The IDB representative, Vladimir Radovic, was advanced to make clear the policy of this organization saying usurious interest rates of “contingency funds are higher and the shortest time.”
In addition to the claim of doubling the country’s debt to imperialism, the government of Lugo-PLRA raises make “concessions” to the private sector by 502 million dollars. Look at the immediate privatization of the plan are major routes and ports, as well as international airports Silvio Pettirossi and Guarani. Neither the Paraguay river beyond the intentions of privatizing government, through the waterway.
Borda also announced that the government provided $ 62 million of agricultural credit and $ 128 million from the National Development Bank (public money) for production in the field, ie for agribusiness.
The mentor of all these plans of the bishop of the poor, Dionisio Borda, is known concerning the International Monetary Fund (*) in Paraguay, also helped by the subsidiaries of the U.S. embassy.
These sponsorships allow you to survive significant to governments, because despite the “change” from April 20, former minister Nicanor Duarte Frutos (whose rejection contributed Borda as Minister) as follows campante.
The first steps have been implemented Borda refuse to grant the student ticket opposed to increasing wages and encourage massive layoffs. Now anti-crisis plan aims to undermine the country atándolo further directives imperialists and notorious suicide prescriptions of the IMF.

The result of the actions of the IMF in Latin America is well known.

Effect was a slowdown in the industrial wastelands or in most cases. They returned to economies of exporting raw materials.
The measures generated strong differences in income distribution and an increase in inequality, coupled with the elimination or restriction of the social networks of support previously provided by the State. Although social inequalities existed previously, the exacerbations. In many developing countries in Latin America and Africa, the implementation of these measures was carried out by dictatorial governments, and represented a balanced integration into the global economy. LAW
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(*) Some of the most intense criticisms have left Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank Chief Economist and Nobel Laureate in Economics 2001, was used for a publicity coup de Fernando Lugo. These criticisms of the IMF measures are implemented by Borda as Minister of Nicanor Duarte Frutos: Restructuring of the public budget at the expense of social spending, generating primary fiscal surpluses sufficient to cover debt, elimination of subsidies, both at productive activity and in social services, together with the reduction of tariffs, restructuring the tax system. In order to increase tax collection, tax hike prompted Borda and deployment of easy perception of regressive taxes (like the Value Added Tax)