MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
IMF is not the cause of Argentina’s poverty: “we are to blame”
Argentina’s former cabinet chief Alberto Fernandez said the International Momentary Fund, IMF, is not the cause of the country’s poverty. His statements come in the middle of negotiations between the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and the IMF for a possible understanding which could open the way for fresh funds for Argentina. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOf course the IMF is not to blame for Argentina's problems. But these kind of comments came in a political shape so to ask for money to that organism, after blaming it of our economic bankrupt in that same political shape.
Oct 22nd, 2009 - 08:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0How many years must we suffer this kind of “parasitos” in politics?. For worse, Macri and company are more corrupts than Kirchner.
I hope next time they ask for money to the IMF, they keep records of loans, so in the future they dont have to ask the IMF how much we owe them becouse the government losed registry.
Luis, you must continue to suffer until the pueblo finally gets tired of the corruption that infects all levels of Argentine goverment. The corruption, the siphoning of the country's wealth by elected and appointed officials should not be considered the cost of doing business. When Argentina stands up and convicts and takes away the illgotten gains of the politicos, then it can become the economic power it was before..
Oct 22nd, 2009 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder why appear here that kind of news about someone who is not in the government anymore. Why doesn't appear the macri's spy man??? Why doesn't appear the nonsenses carrio say??? Only appear the news about people who critized the government.
Oct 23rd, 2009 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0cheers
It appears here because the K's want to control the press and prevent anything in print or broadcast that does not spin the news their way.
Oct 26th, 2009 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hello my name is axel, i'm from buenos aires, i would like to say that we shouden't believe in the media, at this time in argentina there is a very big push of power betwen the goverment and the clarin group, it exists since a couple of years, but during the last monthes it increased very much, because the goverment created a new law for the media, wich doesn't allow the monopoliums, clarin and a few others groups have a an important monopolium in the media, every headlines that we read or see in those chanels are all negative, it seems that every country are better that argentina, i am not denaying the problems that we have, i just want to be objetive, of course we have many problems, but all that manipulated information that we heard is not the true reality of my country, beside that hipocrite, alberto fernandez, he worked for 5 years for the kirchners, and during all that long period he defended all that he critices now, that's why i don't believe in him, beside if some islander or whoever wants to have an opinion about the situation of argentina, it would be better to talk to some one from our country, and you will see the diferences, it's never good to heard just one voice.
Oct 28th, 2009 - 03:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Axel, that is what the K's want to do, they want government monopoly of the media. If Clarin or some other new agency that does not spin for the K's prints something that is not true or factual, they can be held legally liable. The problem is, like with the inflation figures, the K's want this number put out, but anyone that does any shopping for food can see that the bags of food got smaller and the bill got higher. The K's like to demonize the IMF and World Bank in public, all the while trying to get their hands on some more money from them. The public has the right to know not just the government line that in reality has reported some false data. A good point was the health minister that resigned because H1N1 got loose during the early elections called by the K's. With the onset of a pandemic the right thing to do for Argentina would be to delay them. What happens? H1N1 gets worse and the government stops reporting the infections and deaths. Argentina needs a strong free press to stop the K's and company from stealing any more land and services.
Nov 03rd, 2009 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Buba i know perfectly what is going on in my country, because i live here and there are many aspects about the new law for the media that may be you dont know, we know perfectly that the k counterfeit the stadistics, beside people are not inocent, and we recognize many others of the mistakes the make often, that's why i dont beleive in them eather nor in the media, because there is not free press in argentina with this monopolium, beside the last law for the media that we had, was created during the last militar dictatorship, but it had some changes during menem's goverment wich benefited clarin and a few economic groups but it didn't benefited the free press, any way the fact that the k want to control the media are nonesense, because if they didn't do it before with a law that promoved the censure, there are no many reasons to hold that they want to do it now, i know weel the tenor of the new law, and it's a very good law, i am not an obsequent of the k, but i am not a total oponent eather, there are some actions they did that i dont agree in absolut, because they were really bad, but ther are others decitions that were very good and i agree, if you speak spanish i can tell you where to reed it.
Nov 04th, 2009 - 05:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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