Brilliant Greek documentary: “Debtocracy”

Beautifully produced, comprehensive documentary about the economic enslavement of Greece and other peripheral economies.  Shot for 8,000 Euros, the Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty called it “the best film of Marxian economic analysis yet produced.” Check out especially the part about “odious debt” beginning around minute 34 or 35.  Select your choice of subtitles by selecting CC-Subtitles at the top of the screen at the beginning.  Available in German, Italian, Portuguese, English, French and Spanish as well as of course, the original Greek.  Bigger screen, better view, at the filmmakers’ site, here.

Llallagua, by Victor Montoya

The village of Llallagua - Photo: Luis Chugar

Llallagua, A Mining Town in the Andes - español

By Victor Montoya

Translation: Elizabeth Gamble Miller

The indigenous people baptized these hills with the name for a root in the Quechua language, Llallagua, because the potato-like geological formations appeared to be a root of good fortune. There, Simón I. Patiño, one of the tycoons of Bolivian mining, found the richest layer of tin ore in the whole world at the end of the 19th century. From that time on Llallagua became the new Potosí, and Simón I. Patiño, who fought the boulders like a conquistador without a sword or armor, became the new King of Tin and, with Ford and Rockefeller, one of the few multimillionaires.