YPF vote splits opposition Radical party; dissenters blame government for the energy policy

Friday, May 4th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

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Even when the YPF nationalization bill in the Argentine Lower House was passed with support from most opposition parties, including the two main groupings the event was not without incidents. Read full article

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willi1
:”..“There are many Radical party’s lawmakers that think the same as me and were willing to join me, but unfortunately that have been pressured for the last to weeks to don the contrary and vote in favour of the bill.”:

That´s it: the opposition is too cowardly to stand against the ck-gang. they afterwards cry against ck, that they have been under pressure. but what is an opposition good for other than controll the ck-gang?
May 04th, 2012 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
@1 If you stand up to Hitler, you end up dead and your family in a concentration camp. She just uses the fear of having La Campora bomb their houses or beat up their kids to prevent anyone from disagreeing with her.

It's that simple.
May 04th, 2012 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Idlehands
It's fine to subsidise fuel if that is what you want to do. What a government does is buy the fuel and then sell it at the price it wants it's citizens to pay.......except in Argentina.

Their method is to force the oil companies to sell at the price they demand. It's not the governemnt subsidising the fuel - it's the production companies.
May 04th, 2012 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
Market fundamentalists. They had the courage of their convictions I suppose but that didn't just mean standing up to government pressure, but ignoring the evidence of their own eyes that market fundamentalism doesn't work
May 04th, 2012 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rosarino
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/down-argentina-way/
Is Mr. Krugman serious thing in UK or is just another K-member?
No one read this? Where are the killers of Cristina?

Regardssss!!
May 04th, 2012 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
#5 Very good
May 05th, 2012 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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