Popular, social, environmental and trade union movements They will mobilize this Tuesday at 12 o’clock to the Obelisk of Buenos Aires to “make the central countries responsible for the ecological debt they owe to developing countries and demand the annulment of the illegitimate financial debts imposed on the Global South”, under the motto “The debt is with the peoples and with nature”.
John Paul Olsonenvironmental sociologist, coordinator in Latin America of the Progressive International and member of DeudaxClima, told FM La Patriada that “the agenda of the G7, of the powerful countries, of the World Bank and the Paris Club is to subject our countries to practically uncompliable debt processesand thus deepen the extractivist model, and predator of our resources in Latin America”.
Olsenn explained that “Argentina is an exemplary case of how the IMF imposed an illegitimate indebtedness of 44 billion dollars, destined entirely for capital flight, by the Macri government,” adding that “It is not only in Argentina where this type of illegitimate debt weighsbut in most of the countries of the global south”. In this sense, the discussion that is being put on the table is that the G7 “recognizes the ecological debt that the global north has with our countries”.
Regarding global warming, he stated that “it is a structural problem of humanitywhich raises the need to generate a change in the mode of production and consumption” and that the countries of the Global South “will only be able to adapt to these complex scenarios if they free themselves of their illegitimate financial debts”.
The local mobilization is part of a series of actions that are promoted in more than 30 countries against the G7 Summit that is taking place in Germany.
Among the organizations that convene are CTA Autónoma, Sobernaxs, Corriente Nacional Martín Fierro, Union of Land Workers (UTT), Popular Unit, SMEs for National Development, Progressive International (IP Argentina), Single Union of Workers of Port Administrations (SUTAP) and South Project.
