Argentine government in campaign to defend achievements of “economic model”
Argentina’s Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina asked for “responsibility” to safeguard “the present and the future of the Argentines and urged people to preserve the achievements of the Government, as he answered questions of the administration during a visit to the Lower House on Wednesday.
“The responsibility of all Government officials is to safeguard jobs and the development of all Argentines and thus look after the present and the future of Argentines,” Abal Medina said as he addressed lawmakers.
“There are some sectors that want Argentina to fail, they are minority sectors, but they are powerful. They are anti-democratic, because they dream with a different, democracy-free Argentina,” he added.
“Argentina keeps on growing amid the storm and is successfully facing the international economic crisis due to the effort of each Argentine,” the Cabinet Chief assured.
Abal Medina paid his first visit to the Lower House since he took office in December 2011. He answered the Upper House’s questions during a May 2012 visit.
The cabinet chief continued with the official barrage in support of the successful “current economic development model” which is being exposed to a growing number of independent critical reports that question precisely the route and achievements.
On Tuesday President Cristina Fernandez in a further harangue praised “the strength” of the Government’s model, which “keeps growing despite being in the eye of the storm.”
“I will keep taking every necessary measure to guarantee growth. That is my responsibility as a president: to maintain hope and growth so more Argentines are included in it” she stated.
Cristina Fernandez made the statements during a signing ceremony of the expansion of an affordable housing program, which plans to build 1600 homes with Government funds.
She insisted in a direct unnamed blow to organized labour leader Hugo Moyano that Argentina needs “more articulators and less creators of conflict”.
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And how does 1600 homes equate to 400,000 over 4 years?
Nice unbiased reporting there!
#3 How naieve can you get, of course a good model can make enemies just like a good policy of standing up to Rupert Murdoch would not be supported by the Sun in Britain! The campaign is needed to convince people not to fall for the lies of their objective enemies at Clarin etc
You can't deny that many of CFK's speeches are lengthy and somewhat aggressive.
What is this damn model she keeps banging on about. Is it written down or detailed in an economic journal.
No.
The “model” is just her term for her government's propensity to clatter around from one fiasco to the next while increasingly implementing draconian anti competitive command economy policies.
Any benefit of the doubt vanished long ago. She's a political dictator and an economic idiot.
Sounds more and more like north Korea every day .
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no it's not and everyone know's everything is on the verge of collapse.
tick tock tick tock
brr
Tell that to the 3.600 employees let go by Renault Argentina, Juanma, and the poor fruit growers in Río Negro and Neuquén who can't sell their product in Brasil. Let's hope that the government strategy in La Rioja gets the Nucete employees their jobs back, Juancito, and what about several thousand fishermen who are out of work in Mar del Plata, San Antonio, and points South?
“There are some sectors that want Argentina to fail, they are minority sectors, but they are powerful. They are anti-democratic, because they dream with a different, democracy-free Argentina.”
In other words “Clarín miente.” If Argentina fails, what will Magnetto's holdings in Argentina be worth, Juanma? I think that what they dream of is a free democracy in Argentina, like most Argentines do.
Stop talking rot Juan Manuel, speak the truth, you kirchneristas have messed up both politically and economically and should stop following this ridiculous “model”, and admit that its not working. We cannot go on putting up with 30% inflation, its slowly killing off the middle class and has already slaughtered the poorer classes. You politicians are the only ones who are surviving this debacle.
The economic 'model' was simply to say FO to the money lenders and grow from a very low starting point. it would have been impossible not to especially with all that Argentina has. Thats not genius. A 10 year old could have 'formulated' that 'model'.
Its simple. If the government is doing a good job the benefits their actions bring will speak louder with the public than any anti government media. Why such insecurity?
After 10 years of Kirchnerism it looks as if Argentina is going to be in a worse position than it was in 2001. There is no plan. There is no residual success of the K 'government'. And any reasonably intelligent free thinker can see that.
“And any reasonably intelligent free thinker can see that.”
Yes, but we are talking about The Mad Bitch of Argentina and her cohorts (plus Blind_Scottie_Kirchner) here!
Whyever not? Unless by doing well you mean “entering the true religion of Islam and giving up pork”!
If you need to ask why the leader of a real nation does not go around opening pig factories or any factory for that matter, unless of of course the impact has such national importance, then you would never understand the answer.
Let your black widow start opening brothels, because in a year of so the paid whores will be the only employed in Argentina with a wage that keeps pace with the real inflation........well, at least KFC keeps the makeup stores in business.
Really
We thought you just laid down and sizzled all day.
p/s
Have a bacon sarnie
On us .
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When you say “on us”, do you mean you Danes? For all I know, your bacon is danish....
That's why I must keep reminding you (and myself) not to blame Europe for your flaws...
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A very odd remark from a dane,
are sure your in denmark, or just playing catch up .
if your thick skull says your are from denmark, then you are from denmark,
what do we care where you are from .
we never mantioned where you were born, or of interest,
only a innocent remark about bacon.
enjoy
Poor Spain is in no condition to be blamed for anything...
later guys .
I bet you are dying to feel the brr now.
So I hear the US corn and soy crop is going to the crappers...
Still no power in Washington DC capital of the “flea” world? I think they've been out of power more days now than Buenos Aires in the last 3 years!
lol... the irony.
ps - what's the “brr” version for unbearable heat?
You constantly let yourself down Tobias. You had not used to be so bitter: perhaps you should stop using drugs.
I would be dismayed if any of the Brits spoke about a natural disaster in Argentina in this way.
Do you think the poor devils in the UK who have lost all their possessions in the current floods have brought it on themselves?
Please pull yourself together young man and start behaving properly.
I just said some of the crops in the US are baking away. No one is dying, and those farmers are well taken care of, they don't compete in the “free market” as we know because like European farmers, they are guarded by a warchest of billions and protectionist measures. Oh btw, those are the same countries whinging about some secondary trading partner somewhere in South America doing THE EXACT SAME thing, just on other products.
“I would be dismayed if any of the Brits spoke about a natural disaster in Argentina in this way”.
Too late. Though obviously “winter” isn't exactly a natural disaster. But they sure love it if argies freeze though!
You do not deserve my proper behavior. When all of you start with your attempts at verbal humiliation, then I will stop. Until then, your daily hatred of Argentina gives me free license to reply with alacrity and on similar terms.
I must admit when you first came onto Mercopress with your, shall we say 'strong views', I assumed you were the normal Malvanista. When I realised that was not the case I stopped my 'strong' responses.
I have not disabused you, in fact I have genuinely tried to help advise you, for all the good it has done me.
You seem to confuse intelligence with sense and education as a way of lauding it over others.
Genuine education prepares the pupil for mature living. The way you have been posting lately shows you have high schooling but little education.
Saying you 'hate' things when you have never experienced them is somewhat foolish and definitely shows a lack of maturity.
With the best of intentions from someone who has had a very full life and has learned the value of listening before speaking: and then only after due consideration.
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