Le Venezuela annonce son retrait du FMI
Le Venezuela, un pays qui a connu l'une des fortes croissances dans les annees recentes dans le monde avec 10.2% en 2006, annonce son retrait des institutions de Bretton Woods. On se souviendra qu'il y a quelques jours, ce pays venait d'en finir avec sa dette exterieure et il n'est pas surprenant que Chavez en profite pour liberer son pays du control exterieur. Son geste va certes lui creer des ennuis supplementaires, il le sait tres bien, mais Chavez a pris la la seule voie qui peut sauver son peuple et assurer l'avenir de son pays. Il rejoint la le petit club ferme des varis leaders du Tiers-Monde.
Enfin, on notera aussi que le venezuela, a la tete des quelques etats de l'Amerique latine, venait aussi de rejeter les projections de la croissance dans la region; lesquelles projections situaient la croissance de la region a 4.9% contre le 5.5% atteint par la region en 2006. Le Venezuela et les autres pays latino contestent les hypotheses derriere cette projection et croient surtout que le FMI cherche a creer un climat negatif dans la region afin de retarder la forte croissance en cours; ils voient pour ainsi dire une manoeuvre purement politicienne derriere les perspectives qu'affichent le FMI en ce qui concerne leur region. Pour rappel, le FMI avait predis une croissance de 1.1% pour le Venezuela en 2005 mais ce pays est alle au-dela pour atteindre 10.3%, de meme le FMI revenait a charge avec une projection de 3.8% pour ce pays en 2006 mais le chiffre etait de 10.2%.
Pendant que le Venezuela se libere grace a un sens eleve de responsabilite et de gestion competente, on trouve encore des pays qui ne demandent pas mieux que de demeurer eternellement sous le giron du FMI=BM et surtout des pays qui ne demandent pas autre chose que de s'endetter jusqu'a la 20 eme generation. Qui a dis que la faute de l'esclavage residait du cote du maitre et non de l'esclave lui-meme? Lorsque l'esclave supplie le maitre de le garder dans sa plantation, paradoxalement l'esclave inconsistent tombera dans l'illusion d'un bonheur et d'une liberte a atteindre dans la plantation. L'esclave consistent comprendra qu'en suppliant le maitre de demeurer dans la plantation, il rejette ipso facto sa liberte et son bonheur. Bien sur que l'esclave sage continuera a rejeter la plnatation et a explorer les voies de sa liberte en dehors du maitre.
Bonne lecture.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move because the nation has already paid off its debts to the lending institutions."We will no longer have to go to Washington nor to the IMF nor to the World Bank, not to anyone," said the leftist leader, who has long railed against the Washington-based lending institutions.
Venezuela, one of the world's top oil exporters, recently repaid its debts to the World Bank five years ahead of schedule, saving $8 million. It paid off all its debts to the IMF shortly after Chavez first took office in 1999. The IMF closed its offices in Venezuela late last year. Chavez, who says he wants to steer Venezuela toward socialism, made the announcement a day after telling a meeting of allied leaders that Latin America would be better off without the U.S.-backed World Bank or IMF. He has often blamed their lending policies for perpetuating poverty.
Chavez wants to set up a new lender run by Latin American nations and has pledged to support it with Venezuela's booming oil revenues. The regional lender, which he has called "Bank of the South," would dole out financing for state projects across Latin America. Chavez has criticized past Venezuelan governments for signing agreements with the IMF to restructure the economy — plans blamed for contributing to racing inflation. Under former President Carlos Andres Perez in 1989, violent protests broke out in Caracas in response to IMF austerity measures that brought a hike in subsidized gasoline prices and public transport fares. Enraged people took the streets in violence that killed at least 300 people — and possibly many more. The riots came to be known as the "Caracazo," and Chavez often refers to it as a rebellion against the status quo.
During Sunday's talks with leaders from Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti, Chavez predicted that "sooner or later, those institutions will fall due to their own weight." "They will wear away — the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and all those institutions," Chavez said.
Bolivian President Evo Morales raised complaints about a World Bank body that mediates disputes between governments and foreign investors. He said governments never seem to win their disputes against transnational companies at the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Chavez suggested that Latin countries could instead create their own arbitration body for disputes with big companies. Venezuela is not the only country in the region distancing itself from international lenders. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Sunday that he hopes to "get out of that prison" of IMF debt and that "we are negotiating with the Fund to leave the Fund." Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, recently asked the World Bank's representative there to leave and said the country paid off its debt to the IMF. Argentina also has paid back billions of dollars to the IMF.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_imf
Enfin, on notera aussi que le venezuela, a la tete des quelques etats de l'Amerique latine, venait aussi de rejeter les projections de la croissance dans la region; lesquelles projections situaient la croissance de la region a 4.9% contre le 5.5% atteint par la region en 2006. Le Venezuela et les autres pays latino contestent les hypotheses derriere cette projection et croient surtout que le FMI cherche a creer un climat negatif dans la region afin de retarder la forte croissance en cours; ils voient pour ainsi dire une manoeuvre purement politicienne derriere les perspectives qu'affichent le FMI en ce qui concerne leur region. Pour rappel, le FMI avait predis une croissance de 1.1% pour le Venezuela en 2005 mais ce pays est alle au-dela pour atteindre 10.3%, de meme le FMI revenait a charge avec une projection de 3.8% pour ce pays en 2006 mais le chiffre etait de 10.2%.
Pendant que le Venezuela se libere grace a un sens eleve de responsabilite et de gestion competente, on trouve encore des pays qui ne demandent pas mieux que de demeurer eternellement sous le giron du FMI=BM et surtout des pays qui ne demandent pas autre chose que de s'endetter jusqu'a la 20 eme generation. Qui a dis que la faute de l'esclavage residait du cote du maitre et non de l'esclave lui-meme? Lorsque l'esclave supplie le maitre de le garder dans sa plantation, paradoxalement l'esclave inconsistent tombera dans l'illusion d'un bonheur et d'une liberte a atteindre dans la plantation. L'esclave consistent comprendra qu'en suppliant le maitre de demeurer dans la plantation, il rejette ipso facto sa liberte et son bonheur. Bien sur que l'esclave sage continuera a rejeter la plnatation et a explorer les voies de sa liberte en dehors du maitre.
Bonne lecture.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move because the nation has already paid off its debts to the lending institutions."We will no longer have to go to Washington nor to the IMF nor to the World Bank, not to anyone," said the leftist leader, who has long railed against the Washington-based lending institutions.
Venezuela, one of the world's top oil exporters, recently repaid its debts to the World Bank five years ahead of schedule, saving $8 million. It paid off all its debts to the IMF shortly after Chavez first took office in 1999. The IMF closed its offices in Venezuela late last year. Chavez, who says he wants to steer Venezuela toward socialism, made the announcement a day after telling a meeting of allied leaders that Latin America would be better off without the U.S.-backed World Bank or IMF. He has often blamed their lending policies for perpetuating poverty.
Chavez wants to set up a new lender run by Latin American nations and has pledged to support it with Venezuela's booming oil revenues. The regional lender, which he has called "Bank of the South," would dole out financing for state projects across Latin America. Chavez has criticized past Venezuelan governments for signing agreements with the IMF to restructure the economy — plans blamed for contributing to racing inflation. Under former President Carlos Andres Perez in 1989, violent protests broke out in Caracas in response to IMF austerity measures that brought a hike in subsidized gasoline prices and public transport fares. Enraged people took the streets in violence that killed at least 300 people — and possibly many more. The riots came to be known as the "Caracazo," and Chavez often refers to it as a rebellion against the status quo.
During Sunday's talks with leaders from Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti, Chavez predicted that "sooner or later, those institutions will fall due to their own weight." "They will wear away — the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and all those institutions," Chavez said.
Bolivian President Evo Morales raised complaints about a World Bank body that mediates disputes between governments and foreign investors. He said governments never seem to win their disputes against transnational companies at the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Chavez suggested that Latin countries could instead create their own arbitration body for disputes with big companies. Venezuela is not the only country in the region distancing itself from international lenders. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Sunday that he hopes to "get out of that prison" of IMF debt and that "we are negotiating with the Fund to leave the Fund." Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, recently asked the World Bank's representative there to leave and said the country paid off its debt to the IMF. Argentina also has paid back billions of dollars to the IMF.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_imf
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