Suchergebnisse

Ch. 1. E(x)ternal Debt: Understanding Brazil's Debt Crisis -- What is External Debt? -- Is External Debt a Motherless Child? -- How Do You Pay External Debt? -- Who Do You Pay External Debt To? -- Who Pays External Debt? -- How did External Debt Begin? -- 'We did not Get into Debt, They Got Us into Debt!' -- 'We did not Develop, We Under-Developed!' -- Capital Takes All, Social Spending Gets the Crumbs -- A Good Budget Makes for Good Planning -- The FHC-IMF Agreement: And the Government Promised not to Govern with Packages ... -- Cancel Unpayable Debts -- Ch. 2. Trojan Horse: Brazil and the International Financial Crisis -- The Real's Three-Legged Prop Starts to Fall Apart -- Brazil and the IMF (International Misery and Famine) -- Are There Ways Out? -- Ch. 3. Neo-liberal Adjustment and Globalization: A Southern Perspective -- The Historical Roots of the Adjustment Project -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Recipe -- Adjusting to Competitive Globalization -- Economic and Social Impacts -- Opportunities and Challenges -- Ch. 4. For a Debt-Free Millennium -- The Burden of Unpayable and Unsustainable Debt -- The Movements -- Partial Successes: Official Relief -- Alternatives, from Society's Point of View -- Brazil Jubilee 2000 Campaign -- Proposals being Discussed -- App. 1. Debt Glossary -- App. 2. Alternative Debt Policies being Discussed by Jubilee 2000 -- Japan -- App. 3. The Jubilee South Summit in Johannesburg

The beginning -- Operation Bandeirante -- The military hospital -- Incommunicado -- Our first visit -- Still imprisoned -- Transferred to Rio -- Solitude -- Support in the United States -- My return to Brazil -- The saga continues -- Anguish -- Despair -- Freedom -- Exile -- Protest -- Recovery -- Continuing the struggle -- Another martyr of the dictatorship -- In search of a permanent visa -- Returning home -- Never forgetting.

Testimonial and memoir of Lina Penna Sattamini's attempts to save her son from possible death at the hands of Brazil's military dictatorship, which had accused him of subversive activities in the early 1970s.