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IMF confirms closing offices in Mongolia, Lebanon and G-20 member Argentina

Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 06:09 UTC
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will close its Buenos Aires office in protest to Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno’s decision to accuse the organization in court, urging it to explain how it calculates Argentina’s inflation rate, sources said. Read full article

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  • Idlehands

    Don't those three nations slip off the tongue together nicely.

    This is the boat that CFK is putting Argentina into.

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 07:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DanyBerger

    Why an international institution refused to give methodology criteria to one of its members?
    May be they have any and copy pasted info from media as they usually do?

    The IMF cost 4billions to Argentina why not use this money in defence just in case Mohammeds try something funny?

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    Why the hell is Argentina still in the G20? Surely not on it's fictional statistics?

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rebeldenacion

    Mad psychotic bitch is the best term for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the current disaster president of Argentina!
    Others around Cristina Kirchner that are also crooks are her vice-president, Amado Boudou, he is actually an owner of the company that prints money for the government in Argentina, a major conflict of interest, but he denies it, he owns the company in the names of other friends and associates. He is being investigated and surely will end up in jail where he belongs. Cristinas 2 VERY UGLY children, Maximo and Florencia Kirchner, are also very corrupt. Maximo owns all kinds of hotels and properties adn Florencia is a film student in New York and lives in a luxury Park Avenue apartment and is known for major cocaine use. Some of us who know her in New York remember how she always used to tell us how her parents have a bank account drawn on the Nation of Argentina and for her family money is no object. These 2 corrupt children of Cristina Kirchner are self proclaimed “militants”, they belong to 2 internal terrorist groups which Cristina Kirchner finances, “La Cámpora” and “Quebracho”. “La Cámpora” goes around to the poor shantytowns around the cities in Argentina and gives the poor people a bag of groceries, a sausage sandwich called “choripan” and $20 pesos to buy their votes. These people have no choice but to accept this as they are extremely poor and have no other hope. “Quebracho” is a terrorist group which Cristina Kirchner pays to protect her, they disguise their faces and go around shaking down businesses to get money and give back to the president. They are also responsible for drug dealing, robberies and murders.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBAjfgHLyk&feature=relmfu
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwWSN2pukk
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvQw00SV-c
    www.ripoffreport.com/government-worker/argentina-tourists-m/argentina-tourists-murdered-l-33f51.htm
    www.ripoffreport.com/federal-government/cristina-kirchner/cristina-kirchner-cristina-kir-dc9b0.htm

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 09:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #1 I love Lebanon, have been twice, certainly wouldn't see it as an insult; for one thing its women are possibly the most beatiful in the world, so Cristina would fit in well =) And of course Mongolia a few hundred years ago came closest to taking over the whole word...

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Austral

    It is a good question though - why is Argentina in the G20? By any measure they are in the low 20s in terms of size of their economy and in the 50-60s in terms of GDP per capita.

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Furry-Fat-Feck

    @5

    Whenever I read your posts I imagine it in the voice of Joanna Lumley and when you say the word 'beautiful' it is done with the eyes firmly shut and and emphatic shake of the head as though to ram the truth of words home to the listener.

    KFC is at best average from the neck up. From the neck down and beneath the plastic and the makeup I will bet money she is a 10 Pinter at best. She is also corrupt and as mad as a ht full of spoons. Give her up, she'll only break your heart.

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    Well I seriously doubt I'll ever get close enough to her for her to break my heart =) But its just an objective fact that she is beautiful, as attested by those not biased either way politically. Her perfect face, her amazingly expressive eyes and radiant smile, her chic and glamorous style which she pulls of perfectly. And then there's her politics, fighting for the poor and the masses against the 1% who have ruined the world, and her heroic personal history in the left movement that the junta tried to destroy. So you can see why, while she's both unattainable and actually a bit old for me anyway, she's the perfect pinup for a leftist campaigner like myself; surely Maggie Thatcher, with a lot less going for her physically, has a similar appeal for a lot of the right-wingers on here? =)

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Austral

    @8 you inject well-needed levity into this forum! I am sure Maggie T is still a pin up girl for some of the right wingers here. CFK is incredible - one of the more convincing post-op transsexuals on the world stage ;-)

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #9 Well I do my best =) While I seriously do support Cristina's progressive politics sometimes I support her on here in a way I know will wind up the more loony BNP types, and provide a balance to their venom. Tbh I find them funny at times themselves, especially Conqueror when he's threatening me!

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Furry-Fat-Feck

    I really do think I am going to barf.........

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #11 =)

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DerekM

    Wow, IMF close its offices on three mongolian countries.

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    The funny thing about British Kirchnerist is that she's just completely contradictory. You cannot take any of it seriously, because taking nationalism as an example, she always refers to people as BNP. The British Nationalist Party are a fan of aggressive nationalism, something that is a key part of Kirchnerism. She's just coming out with nonsense that logically doesn't fit together.

    Fun Fun, another troll.

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • tobias

    Well, as they say, I don't like the experiment but approve of the result.

    Bye bye IMF. Never come back.

    (it's better even for you, and for us, no more loans hopefully. Live within one's means and when not face the consequences)

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    15 tobias

    I agree entirely with you about being able to pay your way as a country.

    BUT Argentina is having to do it with both hands tied behind its back by the President of the country and the thugs who are helping to rob you all clean.

    How is that fair to anybody?

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Fido Dido

    “Bye bye IMF. Never come back.”

    Totally agree. Argentina is doing the right thing, though it doesn't mind at all to have the enemy closer to you. Anyway, why in the world do you want to do business, as the good Gerald Celente says, with the International Mafia Federation.

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • BenC30

    I think the IMF is wise, with inflation is bad as it is in Argentina, running costs of the offices are likely to be pain. Soon everyone will be carrying their wages around in wheelbarrows soon, similar to the Weimar Republic.

    If Argentina is pleased to see the IMF go and don't want them back, then the IMF should refuse point-blank to hand over money to a country that is not cooperating and is against an international system that everyone else if for!

    The military junta will soon be back at this rate.

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Falklands are British

    15 Tobias

    I also agree with you on this one.

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • tobias

    @18

    Argentina has payed the IMF off. It owes nothing to it and remember we were not “bailed out” in 2001, a big reason why we did default (beside excessive debt taking). But in the same situation, all other countries HAVE been bailed out (Mexicob in 1994 ,Thailand, South Korea, Philippines in 1997; Indonesia, Brazil, Russia in 1998, Turkey in 2000, now Greece).

    So they didn't bail us out, and then we payed our oustading debt to them. If that is the case... Why do we have to answer to them in any way?

    Good bye.

    (of course, it doesn't mean Argentina is on the right path. But on this one thing, I think it is).

    Mar 16th, 2012 - 02:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CameronHighlander

    How many rattles do the AG government have? They must be running out of a finite resource of rattles, the floor around the pram is full.

    Mar 16th, 2012 - 02:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Harry Stamper

    www.buenosairesherald.com/article/95485/rousseff-argentina-has-a-20-inflation-rate

    Mar 16th, 2012 - 04:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Fido Dido

    remember we were not “bailed out” in 2001

    No, you were only bailed out on paper, but in reality Argentina was not bailed out but the banks like TD bank (Canada), Bank of America, HSBC and Citi bank. Bail out the banks, nationalize the debt and it became a gift for the Argentines plus lost all their savings, thanks to their own crooked politicans who later run away but slowly came back (and some re-elected....like Menem).

    ”all other countries HAVE been bailed out (Mexicob in 1994 ,Thailand, South Korea, Philippines in 1997; Indonesia, Brazil, Russia in 1998, Turkey in 2000, now Greece).“

    Same story as what happened in Argentina 2001. Banksters through the IMF, what is their tool, won, people lost.

    ”So they didn't bail us out, and then we payed our oustading debt to them”

    Repeat, yes they did bail you out on paper, but not the Argentine people, but the banks while people got the bill. That's how it worked and still works. You defaulted, paid like 2 cents on the each dollar you owned (or more) but you still owe money to the fraudsters who scammed the nation thanks to their friends in the government who took illegal loans, spending it on junk, and added, illegal, on the national debt..(gift for the people of Argentina for the rest of their life)...>>>> (privatize the profits, socialize the losts.



    What happend in Argentina in 2001 is no difference that what is happening in Greece and is about to happen in other European nations. Only difference is..now the IMF (=Federal Reserve= the mega banks =Broke and needs money) prays on the so called “rich” nations in Europe and soon on it's own.

    Mar 16th, 2012 - 04:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Helber Galarga

    this date should be commemorated forever.

    Good bye IMF, don't ever come back

    Mar 18th, 2012 - 05:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rebeldenacion

    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the current disaster president of Argentina
    and the other Argentina crooks are her vice-president, Amado Boudou, he is actually an owner of the company that prints money for the government in Argentina, a major conflict of interest, but he denies it, he owns the company in the names of other friends and associates. He is being investigated and surely will end up in jail where he belongs. Cristinas 2 VERY UGLY children, Maximo and Florencia Kirchner, are also very corrupt. Maximo owns all kinds of hotels and properties adn Florencia is a film student in New York and lives in a luxury Park Avenue apartment and is known for major cocaine use. Some of us who know her in New York remember how she always used to tell us how her parents have a bank account drawn on the Nation of Argentina and for her family money is no object. These 2 corrupt children of Cristina Kirchner are self proclaimed “militants”, they belong to 2 internal terrorist groups which Cristina Kirchner finances, “La Cámpora” and “Quebracho”. “La Cámpora” goes around to the poor shantytowns around the cities in Argentina and gives the poor people a bag of groceries, a sausage sandwich called “choripan” and $20 pesos to buy their votes. These people have no choice but to accept this as they are extremely poor and have no other hope. “Quebracho” is a terrorist group which Cristina Kirchner pays to protect her, they disguise their faces and go around shaking down businesses to get money and give back to the president. They are also responsible for drug dealing, robberies and murders.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBAjfgHLyk&feature=relmfu
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwWSN2pukk
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvQw00SV-c
    www.ripoffreport.com/government-worker/argentina-tourists-m/argentina-tourists-murdered-l-33f51.htm
    www.ripoffreport.com/federal-government/cristina-kirchner/cristina-kirchner-cristina-kir-dc9b0.htm

    Mar 19th, 2012 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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