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Margaret Thatcher, an Iron legacy for Latin America
By Rafael Rincon - The following piece tries to explain how Lady Thatcher was seen in Latin America and the reactions her death has triggered in the region. ‘An Iron legacy’ was written by Chilean commentator Rafael Rincon, an expert in international relations and strategy and also linked to the oil industry. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSo much influence in Latin America by a British Prime Minister.
Apr 11th, 2013 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0A neoliberalist to the extreme that befriended dictators around the world.
Apr 11th, 2013 - 09:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0There's nothing more to it.
“So much influence in Latin America by a British Prime Minister.”
Apr 11th, 2013 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0indeed,: there is very little some people can do to besmirch her legacy other than pretend it didnt happen... and it clearly galls them that this is so.
HAHAHA MercoPress just changed the article pic (Maggie with Pinochet) and deleted my comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (which was Thatcher with one of her “democratic” friends. One pic is worth a million words.)
Apr 11th, 2013 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0WOW I feel honoured
Bennies are clowns, 'nuff said
@4 PA,
Apr 11th, 2013 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0What? all of us?
Are we all clowns?
ls that because we won't do what you want?
Well, l'd rather be a clown than be under the heel of a colonising Argentina.
btw- eradicated your slums & shanty-towns yet have you?
as you should know, we don't have them here.
So who is really a clown, Pesky?
l think, you.
@5 Bozo
Apr 11th, 2013 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0You guys start first ok?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17185294
Epic Fail
@2 Typical BEATEN latino.
Apr 11th, 2013 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Good to see an “editor” responding promptly to anarchists. We even have some “anarchists” in the UK. But they are all much the same wherever. Brainless nerds with no education.
@6 Didn't you read Isolde's question? Why didn't you answer it? Perhaps you didn't understand. She asked how you're getting on with your villas miseria? I see that there are 640 “precarious neighbourhoods” in Buenos Aires alone. Thanks for the BBC article. I didn't notice any of those British outbuildings being made of “tin, wood and other scrap material”. Or “mud and wood”. I gather that, in argieland, “Electric power is sometimes taken directly from the grid using illegal connections, which are perforce accepted by suppliers.” Isn't that criminal? And how do YOU get the electricity you are using? Oh, and the bit I liked best, “The villas miseria have no sanitation system”. That must be a bit nasty in the unpaved streets.
In a similar vein, how are you getting on with the results of that fire at the La Plata refinery? I see you're going to have to import 15/16% more fuel. That can't be good. Especially as your pal Venezuela isn't doing too well. When will you be paying the 13 billion dollars you owe them? And their oil production is falling.
How's your “armed” forces? I put “armed” like that because I want to hear how your “navy” gets on when those ships that haven't already sunk can't go to sea for more than 10 days a year. And is it really the case that planes can't take off in case the wings fall off?
Speaking of aircraft, how's your national airline doing? What happened to the money Maximo was given to update the fleet? I see that 20 out of the 22 Boeing 737-700s are only leased. Still, they are US$74.8 each to buy.
Oh yes, Margaret Thatcher is an Iron Legacy for L.A.- and most especially for
Apr 11th, 2013 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0North America where there is an inflation of female mediocrities in Government and in the US State Department!
Philippe
@6 You didn't bother to hear those people are illegal immigrants, did you? It's right there, watch it again. The majority of Brits don't need to use this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYE1XxqE8o
Apr 11th, 2013 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No one would never bother to sell this in Brazilian slums. LOL LOL LOL
@2 And for the record: Liberalism intend to make things the best as possible, not Heaven on Earth. Socialism is the one who makes a lot of promises with no mention of how they're going to do it.
Neoliberalism is def not a precise term, but to argue that with the leftists in Latam... Oh, God, they put it on the textbooks to the teens. Worse: they make it look like everyone is under the same thing adopted in Britain or Chile. The average person has no idea of how privatization is corrupted in Latam, of how regulation is unefficient and you go on, massive working class brainwash. The wall between US and Mexico is a Wall of Berlin. A bunch of countries where you have to vote in social democracy to fight taxes, bureaucracy and even criminals are on their way to become failed states. Not surprisingly Chile has a social democracat party with the decency of saying they're against Marxism on their platform.
I'm very glad nature still works fine a take care of repulsive people in this worlds.
Apr 11th, 2013 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Howe old is kaMororoni?
I would be back like exterminator...
BTW do you know that Europe is close to collapse?
Time to rise big walls in SA specially to keep Britons out of this paradise before is too late.
Did you miss me guys? I hope so...
@1
Apr 11th, 2013 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you are caught up in the cinnamon of post-mortum. Always happens to “folksy” people without much intellectual reservoir. When anyone dies, they suddendly are saints and did nothing bad and where the greatest most influential person in the world.
This too shall pass.
Thatcher had absolutely no influence in events in Latin America, positive or negative, except the forced action she had to take to protect her “subjects”, which I really can't begrudge.
The right exaggerates the influence of their “heroes” just as much as the “left” does (albeit the left tends to be more “colorful” and in your face about it). The right just tends be more over the top in the poetry of it.
Good article.
Apr 11th, 2013 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The fall of communism is a fantastic legacy.
The freedom of the Falklands is a fantastic legacy.
The downfall of the Junta is a fantastic legacy.
The revitalisation of Britain is a fantastic legacy.
CFK should build a statue to Maggie and celebrate Margaret Thatcher day, every year,
Apr 11th, 2013 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For she got rid of your junta and gave you freedom,
Unless of course you say, you are not free and still live in a dictatorship.
mmmmmmmmmmm
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I worked for a Latin American bank in London at a fairly senior level. When Princess Diana died I received for weeks afterwards messages of condolence from relations, friends and acquaintances in LA as if I had some personal connection - which I didn't!
Apr 11th, 2013 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have now been retired for several years but curiously the same thing has happened with the passing of Baroness Thatcher - from the example of the messages I have received she was clearly admired and respected in most LA countries EVEN Argentina.
Awwww Gordo!
Apr 11th, 2013 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How sweat!!
What a touching story of yours...
And futile :)
@11 Nostrils
Apr 11th, 2013 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Thatcher had absolutely no influence in events in Latin America”
Nice try Nostrils but as you are previously aware you can't argue and now you've gone and told a great whopping lie. Quite funny considering you are Argentine. Too young to remember 1982 and obviously too fragile to listen to what you politicians are saying at the moment.
No influence! PMSL. Really? And yet the regular crew are are all here on every thread.
She is hardly even mentioned in the Australian press. That's no influence.
All you proved (again) is that you are too young, naïve and parochial in thinking the world was any different to how you now see it.
PS: Don't put words in my mouth; just makes you look even more ineffectual as you are literally arguing with yourself.
“saint”, “did nothing bad” and “the greatest most influential person in the world” are your words not mine!
And you said she had no influence. Funny how you view her impact.
@Gordo1
Apr 12th, 2013 - 02:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0The same happened to me when I was working as a senior manager director in a corner shop in Brixton (London) and my primary duty was to kill the fly flying around the rotten vegetables a very challenging task I should say.
I received a lot of messages from Brits with their condolences when Galtieri dies.
My first impression was to think how many fans got the bastard among Britons.
Now after knowing your experience about MT i’m just wondering if they were not the same people sending messages just for fun...
“A neoliberalist to the extreme that befriended dictators around the world.”
Apr 12th, 2013 - 02:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well said Stevie.
“Margaret Thatcher, an Iron legacy for Latin America”
Apr 12th, 2013 - 04:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Margaret Thatcher + serial-killer General Pinochet a perfect example of that.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/04/508223.html?c=on
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Apr 12th, 2013 - 07:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Following the death of world class politician St. Margaret of Finchley I have decided to rename Argentina. From today its new name in english is Thatchertina. Please use the correct new name from now on in your postings.
I am so happy that justice has prevailed in the Falklands conflict and the Falklanders can have a happy and peaceful life, which they indeed had for one and a half centuries before they were grossly invaded. I hope I can visit the islands, surely a beautiful small society in an idyllic landscape...
Apr 12th, 2013 - 08:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0@11 : Quote ” I think you are caught up in the cinnamon of post-mortum. Always happens to “folksy” people without much intellectual reservoir. When anyone dies, they suddenly are saints and did nothing bad and were the greatest most influential person in the world.
Apr 13th, 2013 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0UP : I know exactly what you mean .....
Rosas
Mitre
Peron
Che Guevara
Norma Ester Arrostito
Carlos Ramus
Firmenich
Rodolfo Walsh
Fernando Abal Medina
Mario Santucho
Nestor Kirchner
To name but a few ...
@6 Pesky Army,
Apr 13th, 2013 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bobolito, l wasn't comparing you to the UK as l don't live there.
l'll say it again, We do not have any slums in OUR lslands.
You DO have slums. You are the “epic fail”, señor.
Fix your own broken country before trying to take someone else's land.
ldiota.
Cristina has spent ARG$ 4000,000,000 on “ Futbol para todos ” ( Free football on TV networks ) while in 5 provinces schools have suspended classes because there is no money to pay the teachers .
Apr 15th, 2013 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0And these trolls presume to criticise Maggie Thatcher ?
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