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“Cristina Kirchner copies Peron’s model”, says The Wall Street Journal
The influential The Wall Street Journal published Monday a piece in which the columnist asks if Argentina can stand another four years of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady who for years has been critical of the Kirchner couple states that few experts trust Argentina can resist four more years of “demagoguery and its creeping authoritarianism” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesMs. O'Grady is no one to complain about authoritarianism. She's a supporter of the 2009 Honduras coup, a position she has not altered not even after diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks showed that the US diplomat in Honduras thought the coup was in clear violation of that country's constitution.
Apr 26th, 2011 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She has also consistently misrepresented politics in South American countries. One example of that was her questioning of the fairness and validity of Venezuela's presidential and legislative elections,* which prompted former US president Jimmy Carter, whose organization has in the past overseen Venezuelan elections, to write an open letter for the WSJ in which he exposed O'Grady's blatant distortions.
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* But the outcome of the 2009 elections in Honduras, an election which happened under a military regime and amidst numerous reports of government abuse, she completely accepts.
O'Grady's comments are realistic. One has to look back at Argentina's history from late 1930's to present to understand was she is talking about. She (CFK) is a perfect example of anachronism!. We live in a “global” economy and her actions are totally opossed to common sense politics, economics and government management. I am sure our government (USA) is looking with anxiety to what is happening down there. Let's hope there is still someone there who can end her ”authoritarian regime' in the next elections.
Apr 26th, 2011 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cheers!
It would make more sense to dispute the facts in the article rather than attack the messenger on a totally unrelated topic.
Apr 26th, 2011 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If Argentines can't see Kirchner for what she really is then they probably deserve her.
@Idlehands
Apr 26th, 2011 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I didn't read the article and have no interest in what some ultra-partisan, bigotted nutjob with an extensive history of facts distortion has to say.
@atk357
With comments such as this - that “[w]e live in a “global” economy” - I gather you're the one who's anachronistic.
TWIMC
Apr 26th, 2011 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Wall Street Journal started predicting the “Kirchnerite Argentinean Economical Debacle” in 2003
Theiy continued through 2004
And 2005
And 2006
And 2007 (the year they didn’t see the “Global Crisis” coming :-)))
And 2008
And 2009
And 2010
And 2011
And every year is going better for the Argentinean economy.
Please please please WSJ…. Continue critizicing our economy…. You bring us good luck :-)
#atk357 /
Apr 26th, 2011 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see your comment covers illiteracy and indifference !
Argentina lowered all kinds of debts since 2002..this is reality.
if you refer the global economy which creates leverage/borrowing
more..then of course Argentina opposed to common sense politics.
I have no idea your government concerns on the country who
lowered own debts step by step and has many street gaits freedom...
O’Grady may be biased, and maybe she has made comments in the past which one could disagree with, but in this article she is telling it like it is. Perhaps some people do not like facing facts.
Apr 26th, 2011 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps some people are predisposed to take as facts distorted allegations that fit their agenda. Such is human nature. We're all predisposed to accept what is convenient for us.
Apr 26th, 2011 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps you outsiders are not in full possession of the facts and you're simply against all things Argentine, blindly and foolishly.
Apr 26th, 2011 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Name a single Argentine government other than CFK's that has recovered as much of the national infrastructure, lost to bankruptcy and foreign industries. Such as Tandanor, the naval shipyard, and FADEA... (ex FMA sold to Mcdonnell Douglas)
Who sold most of the air fleet from Aerolineas Argentinas to Spanish Iberia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerol%C3%ADneas_Argentinas#Privatisation:_1990.C2.A0.E2.80.93_2008
Who was it that downsized the railroad system to almost nothing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerol%C3%ADneas_Argentinas#Privatisation:_1990.C2.A0.E2.80.93_2008
All Menem, as part of his “neoliberal reform” which was nothing more than a systematic destruction of the infrastructure.
“Austral Líneas Aéreas [subsidiary of Aerolíneas Argentinas and Argentina's largest domestic carrier] is undergoing a major fleet renewal. On 2009, the company signed a contract with Embraer for the purchase of 20 Embraer 190.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerol%C3%ADneas_Argentinas#Privatisation:_1990.C2.A0.E2.80.93_2008
This would have NEVER happened if scum like Menem were in charge, it's all part of a massive modernization and expansion of Argentina's infrastructure.
Who do we thank for this? CFK.
Yes, some people are waiting to thank CFK when it all goes south. But, as some one else has already said: “If Argentines can't see Kirchner for what she really is then they probably deserve her.”
Apr 27th, 2011 - 01:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0The UK already went south Brit... you worry about that, don't worry about us.
Apr 27th, 2011 - 01:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is facts like demanding government seats on the boards of PLCs that should be of concern - and fining economists that don't agree with government inflation predictions.
Apr 27th, 2011 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose if you're not from a first world democracy it doesn't seem as peculiar or worrisome.
Martin_Fierro (#)11
Apr 27th, 2011 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ich bin nicht ein Brit.
(13) ptolemy
Apr 27th, 2011 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe you are not a Brit........
But you certainly are not German..............
Ess heisst “ein Brite” mein Freund!
Think (#)14
Apr 27th, 2011 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0..didn't say I was. You can get a free translation on the net and indeed it says “Brite,” but he called me a Brit which I'm not.
14) l told you before Agent Think, you presume too much!
Apr 27th, 2011 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(15)
Apr 28th, 2011 - 12:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wooooooow........, how cunny!!
Your name goes also in my Lizt.
Of course as an Non Brit, you will not understand the above, but Cher Isolde will :-)
(17)
Apr 28th, 2011 - 02:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well,..I'd love to be on your “Lizt” Mr. Think. I've never been on a “Lizt” before. Thank you very much.
13 ptolemy,
Apr 28th, 2011 - 03:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0WTF
(17) quite humorous Cher Think, made me smile.
Apr 28th, 2011 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0@17 & @20 Is there anything going between you two? ... I can smell the love in the air , ...... you all live close anyways .
Apr 29th, 2011 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(21)
Apr 29th, 2011 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nope……
“I’m just trying to face bombast with reason and humanity……”
Cher Isolde threatened to shoot me with her own captured FM FAL 7,62mm if I ever dropped by uninvited on her place.
If Cher Isolde ever dropped uninvited on my place.......... I would invite her to a nice cup of Margaret’s Hope. (First flush, of course)
Cher Isolde threatened to shoot me with her own captured FM FAL 7,62mm
Apr 30th, 2011 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Unused captured FM FAL 7,62mm, slightly damged from being dropped :-)
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