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Ecuador Strikers Oppose Measures of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank

StoryFebruary 11, 1997
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In Ecuador, the biggest general strike in the country’s history last week helped force out President Abdala Bucaram. The spark for the strikes and street protests were a series of International Monetary Fund and World Bank economic austerity measures, including massive price hikes on electricity, cooking fuel and gasoline.

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  • SALLY BURCH
    A journalist with the Latin American Information Agency, an alternative news agency based in Quito, Ecuador.
  • JAVIER ANDRADE
    An Ecuadorian student working on his doctorate at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
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