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IMF mission arrives in Buenos Aires first week of December
The International Monetary Fund confirmed Argentina’s request for technical assistance on the elaboration of a Consumer Price Index (CPI). In a statement release by Nicolas Eyzaguirre, Director of the Western Hemisphere Department added “we are currently in contact with the authorities on planning the missions”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNéstor is turning in his grave. Boudou, you should get back to those party nights in Punta del Este.
Nov 24th, 2010 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The clock's ticking RG's:
Nov 24th, 2010 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Although it does not imply abiding by Article IV which means the opening of all government accounts to IMF auditing, which has not been taking place since 2006, Argentina will have to offer the IMF experts data on some of the most questioned statistics by foreign and domestic investors, specifically the inflation index.”
tick tock tick tock.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_accounting
Nov 24th, 2010 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bon Appétit
UK is on fire. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/nov/24/student-protests-school-children-streets
Nov 24th, 2010 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0REVOLUTION!
Oh my gosh XBOX, there are protests like that practically every week in Buenos Aires! There have been student protests with them taking over the schools for almost the whole of this year! Not to mention the daily union protest that block major streets or shuts down the airports AT LEAST ONCE PER WEEK. How do you have the nerve to compare the two?
Nov 25th, 2010 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are partially right, Fred. He shouldn't compare the two, but I don't think this was a comparison so much as a simple contrast.
Nov 25th, 2010 - 03:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are correct in asserting that public protest is commonplace in Argentina. This is the way democracy works in Argentina: people take to the streets to make their needs and wishes known to the people in power. Direct democracy like this can be very messy, but it does result in limiting the ability of the political and business class from acting with impunity. If you don't believe me, ask the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo if they think they would have been more successful by staying home watching TV and waiting for election day.
Now here is the contrast. Direct Democracy is quite rare in the UK and in the USA. In those countries, the people are more docile and trust in the system to come through for them. Normally, the only public protests they see are on television broadcast from another country. The few protests there that do happen must be lawfully permitted, orderly and subject to control by the press and police. Most commonly, Americans and Brits will wait for an election so they can put the same lying politicians in office with new promises.
When public protests break out spontaneously and without control in the US or UK, this is not business as usual. A once a week protest in Argentina simply means the people want to be heard. A once in a great while protest in the UK means the people are serious and want real change. Xbarilox could be right: revolution may be on your doorstep.
Those were a bunch of spoiled, unruly children and not indicative of general discontent. What others don't understand is that in our core (both US and UK) we know we have to take care of and provide for ourselves and our family. We do not want or expect the government to do it for us.
Nov 25th, 2010 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For some reason in the USA we lost our way in the last 20-30 yrs but the American Conservative has woken up again. We changed our Congress this year, in 2012 we will take back the Senate and Presidency and get this country back on track.
The USA has not been this discontent/scared since Carter, hopefully history will repeat itself and we will get another Reagan or someone just as strong and proud to run against the weak and ineffectual Obama.
“This is the way democracy works in Argentina: people take to the streets to make their needs and wishes known to the people in power.”
Nov 25th, 2010 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0why are 'the people in power' so out of touch in the first place? ironic that people accuse Britain of having a stratified society.
“Direct democracy like this can be very messy, but it does result in limiting the ability of the political and business class from acting with impunity.”
Mob rule eh?...that's just great, nice one.
Thanks for your concern over the Spoilt brats “riots”
Nov 25th, 2010 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but we will be worried, only when they taken on Argentine daftness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2001_riots_in_Argentina
# 9 @ stick up your junta with another Newsflash from the past! Don't call them spoilt brats, they are doing what you never had the courage to do when you were their age. Instead of wating for someone else to fight for their rights, they go out and protest and do it for themselves. Now you're an old wretch, but it's all your fault, so don't put the blame on other people.
Nov 25th, 2010 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was at the riots and i can tell you that most of the people breaking stuff and causing trouble were not even students. Some of them didn't even look over 16, gang members looking for trouble. And an older group of rockers who were looking for trouble.
Nov 26th, 2010 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Xbox, I am curious, what rights do you think they are “fighting” for?
Nov 26th, 2010 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for me I think the police are too lenient, they should never let a mob get away with destroying property. Peaceful demonstration is a right violence is not and should be returned in kind+.
I don't think the police should allow them to demonstrate, allow them to do so peacfully but once that trust is broken it should not be allowed.
Nov 26th, 2010 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But the police are as much to blame in this case fred. At the time it was supposed to end the police boxed everyone in for four hours, then people got annoyed and started smashing things.
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