MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Despite the clamp, Timerman’s plans big ‘dollar splash’ next March in Uruguay
While most Argentines face increasing difficulties to access to US dollars, to travel overseas or use their debit and credit cards abroad, (the famous ‘dollar clamp’) one of President Cristina Fernandez most notorious and loquacious ministers, Hector Timerman is organizing a three-day major splash at Uruguay’s most posh resort to celebrate the marriage of his eldest daughter. Read full article
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Sep 11th, 2012 - 07:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why do the ordinary RGs put up with this shit? I recall one telling me that if they kick one lot of ratbags out the just get a fresh set of thieving ratbags
Sep 11th, 2012 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0What I don't understand is “why”?
Sep 11th, 2012 - 08:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Could he not have had an equally lavish wedding somewhere in Argentina? This event seems politically idiotic.
Titman is political idiotic
Sep 11th, 2012 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0You just could not make it up, they tell the Argie populace that they can not acquire any $$$, now they are trying to discourage oversees travel.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0You then get titman hitting the headlines with this, good god, like someone else commented, why does your Joe Bloggs in the street put up with these double standards, shocking.
And they wonder why the number of tourists visiting Argie land is dwindling, you would be better off spending your vacation in North Korea.
My friend visited argentine in the 90's and said it was the highlight of his month long trek through SA, he met some wonderfully people, who e is still in touch with to this day, I asked him if they ever mentioned the Falklands while e was their or since, the answer was never.
Wake up Argentina, get rid of this woman and her gangster mob she is taking you down fast, very fast.
How will the RG trolls post in support of this?
Sep 11th, 2012 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hear the sound of nails being driven into the CFK/Tinman coffin. What an arrogant prat.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 10:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have never been to Argentina so I am slightly ignorant here. Are there no nice wedding venues in Argentina? Are there no suitable summer houses there?
Sep 11th, 2012 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0@6 I think it will be “keep your European noses out of SA” type stuff .
Sep 11th, 2012 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0A statement which, in itself, is ridiculous (unless coming from someone who is Amerindian)
Plus after the kindergarten closes we will be treated to the usual Sussie rant (“Mother Nature rock those islands away” - I think it the random phrase that her computer seems to come up with)
The Argentinians can't complain because they voted these people in. Anyway as BK, Think and Dover would say “Argentina has a nice champagne socialist Government and whilst the stupid RG's might be discontented, who gives a shit”.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 10:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@8 Off the top of my head I can think of 5 good wedding locations. Really exceptionally beautiful places but not on the coast. (Argentina does not have any really good beach resorts, that is why they go to Uruguay or Chile). It seems the location was chosen for being on the beach.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Argentine trolls will distract, distract, distract.....
Thank you Elaine, although it surprises me that there are no comparable beach resorts in Argentina. An opportunity for someone there surely?
Sep 11th, 2012 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0@12 Not really... almost as far south as Mar del Plata the water is pretty muddy..further south its too bloody cold......
Sep 11th, 2012 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0we must be doing something right: http://www.26noticias.com.ar/el-new-york-times-le-pide-a-obama-que-se-inspire-en-la-argentina-para-la-reactivacion-158267.html
Sep 11th, 2012 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0@12 I don't think there is much money around to invest. I think most porteños regard Uruguay as a suburb anyway and Mar del Plata is underwhelming, though much loved by Argentines.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0A lot of Argentines go to Chile, especially from Mendoza, for their holidays. Chile has beautiful beaches up and down the Pacific coast. Vina del Mar is very popular with Argentines but my least favourite - especially if you have the misfortune, as I did, to be staying in a hotel with the bands performing at the annual Music Festival. The festival is popular but I was less enamoured by the screaming fans at the hotel entrance. lol.
#10 then can and should complain and the next step would be to complain in the polls. At least that's how we try to do it here.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Steveu.....I can hear sussie now.....drip, drip, drip lol
Any guesses if he is forced to change plans?
Do as I say not as I do.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0TImmerman is a clown he must have some really good dirt on CFK to be kept around so long is all I figure....
When we were looking for our house in Uruguay we went to Jose Ignacio and were underwhelmed by what was there.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The town is VERY hilly and the roads very narrow indeed. The lighthouse is good and the beaches very good as are most in Uruguay but we decided to look elsewhere.
But don't you just love the holier than thou attitude of these prats. Talk about having sympathy for the electorate! LOL
more tricks,
Sep 11th, 2012 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the things the argies will try,
just to control another country.
We brits compain about our politicians but really they are nothing
Sep 11th, 2012 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0-NOTHING- in comparison to this shower of piss, shit and vomit.
At least in British politics we can pick out s few half decent types from the cabinet. In Argentina the whole lot of them CFK, Timmerman, Boudou, Moreno, A Fernandez etc are the most arrogant, despicable, deceitful, hypocritical malevolent bstards.
They really behave like they are the saviours of Argentina and the masses should be ever so grateful for their tireless work and dedication.
Democracy? Bullshit.
Christ on a bike. Get rid of them.
It will really take quite a lot to rid argentina of kirchnerite's. For one, 90% of argentina peronists. What I think the problem is is that the vast majority of the people are lied and disregarded to the point the the oridinary argentine does not care anymore, thus the reason corruption and hypocracy is so pervasive. Mediocrity is the incubator of apathy in the masses.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Surely someone should be asking serious questions about how tinpotman can afford this. The first thing that would occur to me is the holding deposits for all the rooms required. That's got to be US$37,000 at least. Then there's the booze, the food, the “entertainment”. Where's the money coming from? Has he been saving up his pennies for 29 years? Or is he dipping into pension funds? (Not his own, of course!)
Sep 11th, 2012 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL!
Sep 11th, 2012 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whatever it's policies are the Argentine regime do provide entertainment value. Corruption, hypocrisy, arrogance, aggression and insanity on the grandest stage of all.
Corruptions is part of their Society. They cheer when someone “beats” the system, doesn't pay taxes, pays off Police, etc etc.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only way it will change is if they get a Dictator like Pinochet in there and rout out the corruption 1 by 1. Until then they are on an ever decreasing standard of living and will be like Bolivia sooner than most of them realize.
It is sad but they deserve what they get...
I assume the free press in Argentina aren't actually allowed to interview Timmerman and ask him about this? I know CFK never allows interviews - is it the same for the rest of them?
Sep 11th, 2012 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 01. Tinman is married to the daughter of one of the richest women in Argentina. That, plus what he has gotten from CFK allows him all the money he needs.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 02. There are better beach facilities in Argentina than in Uruguay. And many are far north of Mar de Plata.
3. At first he planned to announce that the groom-to-be is from Uruguay, but finally decided that would not fly from people who know better.
They deserve him, more of the same please.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Until someone gets in office that wants to clean house. There is always going to be some corruption in every form of government, but overall there has to be a level of fear of getting caught and most important of all, society needs to be taught that stealing is wrong and not a way of life.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think there are different types of corruption.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Theres the blatant corruption - 'one can and so one will'
Theres the corruption of the P system that millions of people rely on. A life support system. They are not neccesarily crooks but are taking the easier safer route.
Theres the corruption of those who just want to get on with their lives and so are corrupt by avoiding the system that persecutes them ie the entrepreneurs, middle classes etc.
Probably other types too. When you consider all that and how Argentina came into being its easier to understand why corruption is so prevalent.
@30 Yes, corruption was imported with the large number of Italian immigrants. To cheat the system there is to be applauded. In Argentina they like the ideas of laws but don't think they apply to them individually. I have heard numerous stories of tax avoidance, fare dodging and theft, spoken about as if it was a good days work. When challenged they know that it is not really right but will argue that if they don't do it someone else will. Until it becomes socially unacceptable nothing will change.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Add to that decades a nationalistic brainwashing and the corruption is perpetuated. Nationalist will not accept any criticism of their country even when there is overwhelming evidence. This refusal to question anything negative and their willingness to defend the indefensible means CFKC can continue without question. To question her antics might suggest you are criticising Argentina.
Luckily, not all Argentines have been inculcated to believe they are the greatest country in the world and everyone is against them. Some understand you can be patriotic, have great affection and pride for the country and still hold the government to account. It is not treason, it is democracy.
LOL! notice not a single ArgTardTroll commenting on this.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 030 ElaineB (#)
Sep 11th, 2012 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sep 11th, 2012 - 04:07 pm
Excellent post, what is lacking in Argentina is PATRIOTS, we have a huge overdose of nationalists but very, very few patriots!!!!!
Argentina has a nice champagne socialist Government and whilst the stupid population might be discontented, who cares.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Happy have a fellow commentator proved almost right once in a (very long) while.
They are working up some really big insults. When they cannot refute something.....they wait a day or two and insult. Though I am sure they are diligently scanning wikipedia and Utube for some garbage.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the rest of the world....we can easily admit that we have asshole and shitheads that get into public office, they cannot admit it.
Why doesn´t he hold the proceedings in the Falklands? Is there a synagogue in Port Stanley?
Sep 11th, 2012 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No doubt the FIs are to blame for bent RG s
Sep 11th, 2012 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 033
Sep 11th, 2012 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You been drinking again?
Does holding a wedding reception confer sovereignty, or is that just scrap dealers, whalers, and penal colonies?
Sep 11th, 2012 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Along with CFK and the comedy club currently running Argentina, another hipocrit.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah good old Tinman, the most stupid politician in South American other than CFK of course.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Long live the rein of Tinman (purely for comedy value of course).
@16 Captain Poppy/Conqueror
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A wedding is a personal choice.
UK Prince Harry drip drip drip in Las Vegas, Nevada USA is his personal choice:
to play nude with several gay and lesbians.
Although UK Prince Harry can have the same choice to drip drip drip in the UK ...
he prefers Las Vegas, the sin city to drip drip drip!
@ 41 2012
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In Argentina you're not allowed the personal choice of spending money elsewhere. Nor are you allowed to own US Dollars.
does one think harry cares what ungratfull argies think,
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0do we care what some uneducated argies think
do educated argies care what some argie low lifes think
[nope]
briton cares a lot since he keeps answering all my posts!
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he is the uneducated ...rubbish bloody old english man venting from his arse!
Steveu read my #16.....sussie comes out with as much reliability as Old Faithful. The best part is for wome obscure reason known only to the two synapses that fire in her head, she thinks I am English.......lol
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is better than the comedy central channel
we do not reply to any particular posts,
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mearly commenting,
the name you are refering to, died weeks ago,
amazingly in 2012,,
meanwhile, is that man putting up two fingers, or is he showing its withdrawal..
I know I said I would ignore but the insults of 'bloody', 'rubbish', 'old' just put me in mind of Monty P's Holy Grail. 'Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries, you son of a silly person' etc.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 047 ElaineB
Sep 11th, 2012 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0agreed lol.
Oh! more confusion between the brits! lol
Sep 11th, 2012 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 02012 is a street number!
boy you are clever aint you.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@47
Sep 11th, 2012 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah – funny that. I was contemplating posting lyrics to Pythons ‘Look on the Bright Side of Life,” to help jolly along our overseas friends, a morale booster – to perhaps give a flavour and sense of endurance – the ‘blitz spirit’ and all that. But then I recalled that they opted out (apart from providing hospitality to the perpetrators).
its dead on here tonight,
Sep 11th, 2012 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we must speak to the cemetary keeper to open the gates earlier.lol.
I guess the dollar clamp is only for the plain people not politicians.
Sep 11th, 2012 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/national-government-will-not-pay-subte-subsidies-with-2013-budget/
at 112 Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, UK.....
Sep 12th, 2012 - 01:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0#42 I live in Canada and they collect from me more then Argentina ever did or ever will as an Argentine citizen. Contrary to what morons think Argentine Citizens buy whatever they want and can own US dollars except that now you buy them from the government to stop counterfeit, money loundering and trafficking. I think USA and Canada if you do not report 10.000.00 $ while traveling the government will confiscate it at the border.
Sep 12th, 2012 - 01:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Take 50,000 pesos and covert it to U$ dollars and then putit in na bank in U$ dollars in argentina and see what happens?
Sep 12th, 2012 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0They will not “confiscate” your money, but you will have a nightmare of paperwork to prove you are not a smuggler.
So Timmerman has cancelled his wedding bash in Punta del Este at an estimated costof U$D 300.000. Pity.Uruguay would have been delighted to relieve of him of some of his ill gotten gains. So where is the wedding going to be held? Las Vegas? No I think we will see it at Cristinas smart hotel in Santa Cruz if Timmerman wants to keep his job as Foriegn Minister
Sep 12th, 2012 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Any traveler can carry $10.000 dollars in cash/traveler checks.
Sep 12th, 2012 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0If is more than $10.000 USA dollars, then such amount has to be declare to the USA Customs by filing certain documents.
UK Prince Harry likes to spend his fucking money in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA...
where to spend money is a personal choice!
@2012,
Sep 12th, 2012 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0You silly little person :-)
@59 Its not a person
Sep 12th, 2012 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0you rubbish bloody english man! hey, the whole world knows all UK men are rubbish bloody english people...
Sep 12th, 2012 - 02:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here in the USA people don't want you!
In Argentina no ones want you!
Die, bastard, die! :-))))
@ 58 “Where you spend money is your personal choice” Justlike mr Timmerman spending his ill gotten gains in Punta del Este Uruguay perhaps
Sep 12th, 2012 - 02:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 2012
Sep 12th, 2012 - 03:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hehe, love it!
Thanks for proving my point :-)
BTW, Who said i was English?
It honestly does not matter what country your from, you will always be English in the teeny tiny itty bitty mind of SussieUS/2012.
Sep 12th, 2012 - 06:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0No-one wants us in the USA? funny that, just watched a documentary about Will and Kate, and their North American tour. Amazing the amount of A-list celebs, political figureheads, rich powerful and influential who people wanted to brush shoulders with the Royal couple.
Do you watch the news Sussie? or are you always glued to the adverts? Remember that is not a news program.
Now, run along Sussie, I believe there is a street corner that's missing it's usual shadow.
sussie do not try to speak for Americans. We have a long history and relationship with our brothers across the pond. Now run along before you hurt yourself and learn something.
Sep 12th, 2012 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0The world thinks the British Olympics were the best ever,
Sep 12th, 2012 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0What a very nice country to be in.
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@ 10 Englander
Sep 12th, 2012 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The Argentinians can't complain because they voted these people in.”
That is NOT fair.
When it comes to Argentine politicians, since 1941 the population has been between Scylla and Charybdis. Their only option is to vote for what they hope is the least horrible option.
mmmm
Sep 12th, 2012 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the devil or the devil.
good choice..
@ 66
Sep 13th, 2012 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Several newspapers stated the biggest problem for USA citizens visiting London was the inability to understand the rubbish bloody english unsual words that are not known in the USA and their repulsive accent!
Second, was the lack of good food.
Third: the weather!
How stupid is the statement.....“the sale exceeded our expectations” when it was purchased by ......itself argentina (anses)
Sep 13th, 2012 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I lové àll pèople iñ the wórld
Sep 14th, 2012 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0bùt, love English ones différently.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/09/201291421514919689.html
Sep 14th, 2012 - 11:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#69
Sep 15th, 2012 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Which newspapers ? Lack of good food in London ? Some of the best restaurants in the world ! Although there is some good food in the USA there is also a lot of processed junk.
Dear me ! Americans cannot understand “ bloody English unusual words and their repulsive accent”. Coming from an Latino/American, that is a joke. Are you saying that Americans are thick ?
In the UK we have to put up with our language being abused by our American cousins but we seem to be able to understand them despite their ignorance of the pronunciation of vowels.
As to the weather, it comes from N.America ! It depends what you want. I am sure that the farmers in the mid-west would have liked our rain and
more moderate temperatures..
Clyde preciosa is a la campora troll aka ProRG American 2012 sussie USA susan brown to mention a few. Her soul function is to dismiss critical reports against argentins she is not an American, does not live in America and does not speak for American's. You can choose to ignore it or empower it.
Sep 15th, 2012 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2012/09/12/following-public-uproar-the-timerman-family-will-celebrate-the-marriage-in-buenos-aires
Sep 16th, 2012 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, people were saying...
Its an afterthought after uproar....not a forethought based on public policy. If people did not bitch, he would have carried forward because he has DOLLARS.....u$ dollars.
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