As the IMF said in a press release of December 23, the Iraqi government must be committed to controlling the wage and pensions bill, reducing subsidies on petroleum products, and expanding the participation of the private sector in the domestic market for petroleum products. The impact of the IMF extortion was swift and brutal.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Since the Dec. 15 parliamentary election, fuel prices have increased five-fold, mostly because the outgoing government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari has cut subsidies as part of a debt-forgiveness deal it signed with the International Monetary Fund, the Los Angeles Times reported on December 28. The move has shocked Iraqis long accustomed to hefty subsidies of gasoline, kerosene, cooking gas, and other fuels.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Iraqis are getting a nasty taste of the IMF’s medicine. Over the summer, gas was selling for about five cents a gallon, the LA Times noted. Now it’s about 65 cents, and at the end of the price increases, gasoline will cost about the same in Iraq as it does in other countries in the Persian Gulf, about $1 per gallon. The prices of kerosene, diesel, and cooking gas have seen similar or steeper increases. The price of public transportation has also gone up significantly.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Not surprisingly, these enormous price hikes have led to riots around the country, with police firing on 3,000 protesters in Nassiryeh, according to an account on Daily Kos, Iraq’s oil minister quit to protest the government’s capitulation to the IMF. According to Daily Kos, Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum asked, Is this how we repay the Iraq citizens who risked their lives to participate in the elections, by raising fuel prices in this way? <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb The indestructible Ahmad Chalabi, a longtime favorite of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, replaced al-Uloum. The Bush Administration is four-square behind the IMF deal. This arrangement will underpin economic stability and help lay the foundation for an open and prosperous economy in Iraq, said US Treasury Secretary John Snow.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 6 janvier 2006 \u00e0 08H39<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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