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  What Argentina needs is a new shipyard and government loans for fisherman to lunch themselves at sea,
  Argentina could make a killing in fishing liceces like Malvinas did for many years, I don't understand why we let pirats hand out licences, when we can exploit the fish ourselves.

  Jan 25th, 2011 - 08:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  xbarilox

  What Argentina needs is a working president, honest and realistic, with that only there will be no need for Cristina to travel the world kissing people's butts to tell that Argentina is a good place for investments. Foreign investments would flow into Argentina by themselves without even asking for it. If she could only say that, Yes, Argentina's real inflation is 35%, that would help a lot.
  You sound stupid I, Las Malvinas are not in our hands yet and you talk about “what we can do with the fish”. You can't understand because you are stupid. You live in Cristina's Fantasy Land, whith no inflation, no poverty, no insecurity, no unemployment, no no.

  Jan 25th, 2011 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  GeoffWard

  I agree with #2;
  Dilma Rousseff is a good example of a *working* president, I think that she will show Christina how to be a good president over the course of the next year or so.
  And #1, with respect to fishing licences for (eg) Japanese fleets to exploit Argentinian waters - well, why not exploit them yourselves and make money by processing and selling to (eg) Japan? You have a potential fishing infrastructure that the Falklands will never have, and a large home market from which to also make profit.
  All you need to do is do it more and do it better; fishing is not 'rocket science!

  Jan 25th, 2011 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  The reality is Argentina doesn't need foreign investors, the wealth is in the land the revenues in the taxes, Argentina has a national bank people get payed in pesos, why would we want to tie capital in foreign funds and pay bogus interests on loans ?? I say we get the money from the national bank and fund our own shipyard. Malvinas Argentina are our Islands, they can't be in pirats hands, but yet the pirats still give out fishing licences, fishing contributes the bulk of economic activity. In 1987, the government began selling fishing licenses to foreign trawlers operating within the Islas Malvina exclusive fishing zone. These license fees total more than $40 million per year, which help support the island's health, education, and welfare system. Squid accounts for 75% of the fish taken.
  if Argentine increased the licencing of squid fishing with the same tenasity as the pirats in Malvinas, I am sure Argentina could snatch at least 30 millions just in licencing fees, not a bad ckickstart for a ship yard, not even mentioning the tax contribution by the local industry.
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fk.html
  #3 I agree fishing is not an obstacle, corruption is.

  Jan 26th, 2011 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  xbarilox

  “The reality is Argentina doesn't need foreign investors” Cristina Fernández de Kirchner believes that Argentina DOES need foreign investors, but I guess she's an idiot, as I said before haha
  
  http://middle-east-online.com/english/?id=43775
  
  I, we're living in Argentina, stop dreaming, just a little bit of coherence is all that you need, and stop doing copy and paste, it doesn't help.

  Jan 26th, 2011 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  GeoffWard

  So you have corruption in Argentina also.
  
  My hope is that Dilma will be SO TOUGH on corruption in Brasil, and in Brasil's dealings with the rest of the world, that we eventually get a government of the people for the people that provides for an honest workplace and homelife to match the people's hopes and aspirations.
  
  I also hope that Christina can provide this for all Argentinians.

  Jan 26th, 2011 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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