Democracy Center’s IMF Report in the Seattle Times

Saturday’s Seattle Times carried a wonderful article about The Democracy Center’s new report on the IMF in Bolivia, Deadly Consequences. The article focuses on our two great volunteers, Carolyn Claridge and Nicholas Verbon of the University of Washington. Carolyn and Nick worked as volunteers with The Center for two months and did excellent research for us as we put the new report together. Read the article here, which includes an interview with them. Seattle Times reporter Al Scott wrote the piece.

I think that this article and Carolyn’s and Nick’s work demonstrate the best of what it can mean for people from the US (or other wealthy nations) to come to countries like Bolivia. They came to help. They used the research skills they learned as university students in the US to help pull the curtain away from the actions of the IMF.

That’s what we try to do at The Democracy Center, combine solid on-the-ground story telling with the context of the larger global forces that set those stories in motion. Sometimes getting to the facts isn’t easy. Carolyn and Nick took on looking through page upon boring page of IMF jargon and minutiae. But that is what it takes to understand how the global economic system works. In helping The Democracy Center tell the world that story, Carolyn and Nick put their skills to good use and made a great contribution. They deserve all the attention they get.

Here, once again, is the link to Deadly Consequences. Pass it along.