Asfixia nacional

The Guardian 08-01-2023
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/08/hedge-funds-holding-up-vital-debt-relief-for-crisis-hit-sri-lanka-warn-economists

(..) Private creditors own almost 40% of Sri Lanka’s external debt stock, mostly in the form of international sovereign bonds, although the higher interest rates levied on the bonds mean they receive more than 50% of external debt payments. (..)

2023-01-10

Cairo, Túnis, Colombo etc

Al Jazeera 14-07-2022
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/14/sri-lankas-embattled-president-rajapaksa-arrives-in-singapore

Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives in Singapore after fleeing Sri Lanka amid protests over an economic crisis. (..) The announcement triggered jubilation in the commercial capital Colombo where protesters massed outside the presidential secretariat, defying a city-wide curfew. Crowds set off firecrackers, shouted slogans and danced ecstatically at the Gota Go Gama protest site, named mockingly after Rajapaksa’s first name.(..)

Montagem: Avebarna

2022-07-17

O mal-estar é planetário

Folha de S Paulo 09-07-2022
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2022/07/milhares-invadem-residencia-do-presidente-do-sri-lanka-em-meio-a-caos-economico.shtml

2022-07-12

Comissão de ré

The Guardian 09-04-2022
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-protesters-call-for-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-please

(..) As Sri Lanka has descended into its worst financial crisis since independence, with food, fuel, medicine and electricity becoming increasingly scarce, and calls for the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa – frequently referred to as Gota – to step down, 50-year-old Upul, who lives in a poor northern suburb of the city, is among those who have been pushed to the brink of survival. As petrol became scarce and expensive, Upul was no longer able to afford repayments on his rented rickshaw and lost his only means of income. Now he and his four children survive only on rice and water. Vegetables and milk powder are just too expensive these days. (..)

Faz algum tempo, um dos inúmeros esquerdólogos que frequentam o meu facebook saiu com esta pérola: “O que mais interessa numa manifestação não é por que e como ela ocorre, mas a quem ela serve e para onde ela se move.” Tradução: "A gente observa; se os demagogos assumirem o comando, fica provado que o movimento era de direita’’. É o modus operandi da autoproclamada esquerda moderna: sempre atrás dos acontecimentos, a explicar que as multidões ainda não estão à altura de suas potenciais lideranças (cujo precioso tempo estará mais bem aplicado na luta pelo próximo mandato eletivo).

2022-04-10