Deadly Embrace:
Nicaragua, the World Bank &
the International Monetary Fund
wtv #158- (27.30 mins)
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working TV #158
first broadcast November 05 1999,
RT: 27.30 minutesWeek 1 of 6 weeks of Special Programming on Global Capital & the World Trade Organization
Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund produced by Elizabeth Canner and Ashley Eames, Directed
by Elizabeth Canner for the Nicaragua Education Fund
(USA 1997)
Deadly Embrace describes the impact of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund policies on the people of Nicaragua, after the election ofthe U.S.- backed Chamorro government in 1990. It is not a happy story. You don't need to know a thing about Nicaragua. If you want to learn about how structural adjustment, the debt crisis and free trade hurt the peoples and the economies of the Third World, watch this video. Historical news footage of the formation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, present day World Bank / IMF television and magazine ads, and an extraordinary interview with Jan Piercy, U.S. Executive Director of the Work Bank allows the international financial institutions to explain their history and missions in their own way. Deadly Embrace combines extraordinary footage of people's lives and their struggle to survive with a textbook-clear analysis of structural adjustment, the debt crisis and free trade that applies to most Third World countries.
Still from Deadly Embrace:
Nicaraguan protests against the "structural adjustment" imposed on Nicaraguan society by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Deadly Embrace was previously broadcast on working TV on March 31st 1999, together with Peace What Peace, as part of Central America today, a one hour Special broadcast.
We thank [email protected] and Ashley Eames for permission to broadcast and webcast this fine video a second time. For VHS copies of Deadly Embrace
phone 603 764 9948.
working TV #158, RT: 27:30 each,
November 05 1999
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