The Argentine government has made public the list of the 500 products with ‘frozen prices’, until next October when mid term elections are scheduled. Consumers can check the information online at the website of the state news agency Télam and with the sites of several of the main supermarkets of the country. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment ruleswho ‘hike prices taking advantage of the strong demand triggered by the inclusive Kirchnerite model’
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't that strong demand have anything to do with printing a lot of extra cash? Is that what the Kirchnerite Model is?
Is this method of price control going to backfire long before October, or just after the elections?
Moreno decides what things ought to cost now, the guy with the gun. That is just beautiful!!!
Maybe CFK's party is going to get hammered in October no matter what they try to do now.
Yes I can't wait to see those supermarkets competing for business and wanting to sell twice as much stuff at a loss.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0It will be interesting how business tackle this. Do they just sell all these products at a loss and then wait for the shipped to inevitably buy other non-price-mandated products?
Or do they just not bother stocking these items, lay off staff, reduce their income but run a profit and hence remain in business?
Anyone who supports this has no economic knowledge whatsoever.
We must be aware of the time the world goes through so that nothing depends on the will of a government but on rights people definitively conquer, what, pray tell, does this mean, if anything?
Jun 01st, 2013 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3
Jun 01st, 2013 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0No, what this means is that this silly cow continues to cook the books and the Argentine people ARE stupid enough to buy it.
We have a frozen price list in UK supermarkets.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ice creams, pizzas, peas, sausages.....all sorts of stuff
Probably not the same thing though!!
Watch as these products slowly disappear.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 07:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0C.F.Ks. power will disappear after October ,(if the elections are honest)
God , these people are really , really , stupid . As toxic says , the 500 products will simply disappear off the shelves and be exported to neighbouring countries .
Jun 01st, 2013 - 08:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0The trouble with Peronists , and particularly Marxist Peronists , is that they simply have not got a clue about simple economics .
The only thing frozen here is a certain weirdo's botoxed face. Nice to see her posing next to a nazi hooker to make her attempt to look better...but somehow failing.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 08:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ppl say they are getting rid of sales/discounts/loyalty rewards (as well as ad buying) to make up for the money.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 08:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of course, this inflation is all about the 40% increase in peso bills.
Oi Thicko and chums! What is the availability of sugar and butter just now??
Jun 01st, 2013 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bet the trade out of Paraguay and Uruguay is booming......
Things started disappearing off the shelves 6 months ago. Just plain gone. Hopefully cfk will do the same.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 09:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good to see the government is still focused and spending their money wisely....... http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/work-to-remove-columbus-statue-begins/ FMTT
Jun 01st, 2013 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0One one time in the history of civilization have price controls ever worked over the long term
Jun 01st, 2013 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not once
I am amazed every day at how stupid these people are.
Even if they've never picked up a history or economics book can't they see what is going on in their sister country Venezuela?
I read an interesting article about Guillermo Moreno yesterday. He is charged with the task of getting $4billion back into the country before the October elections. He has been out threatening businessmen to launder their dollars back into the system 'or else bad things will happen'. To sweeten the deal they are being offered lucrative government contracts. Lovely.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC
Jun 01st, 2013 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Things El Think normally would buy in his “local” Patagonian supermarket….:
Sunflower oil 1.5 liter, 8,31$ (~1£, Nice price)
Swiss Chard, 775 gr., 16.00$ (~2£, Rather expensive)
Dogfood ”DOGUI”, 1.5 kg., 21.10$ (~2.5£, scandalously high, a conspiracy against dog lovers,)
Rice, 1 kg. 3.00$ (~40p, Nice price)
Sugar, 1 kg. 3.55$ (~40p, Nice price)
Sweet potatos,1 kg. 8.69$ (~1£, Nice price)
Rib-Eye Steak, 1 kg. 37.70$ (~4,50£, Nice price)
Instant Coffee “DOLCA”, 100 gr. 19.90$ (~2.30£, Nice price)
Minced Meat, 1kg 25.00$ (~2.7£ rather expensive but the doggies luuuuuuv it)
Onions, 1 kg. 4.39$ (~50p Nice price)
Beer 1 liter 8.80$ (~1£, Fair price)
Chitterlings, 1 kg. 8.09$ (~90p, Fair price)
Fresh Cream 200cm3, 9.85$ (~1.10£, Fair price)
Toothpaste “COLGATE” 2Pack 180 gr. 36.80$ (~4.20£, Freaking expensive)
Dry Spaghetti 500gr. 6.90$ (~80p, Rather expensive)
Table Water Crackers ”CRIOLLITAS” 100gr. 3.70$ (~40p, Nice price)
Flour 1kg. 7.99$ (~90p, Rather expensive)
Liver 1kg 5.20$ (~60p dirt cheap. The doggies and Think luuuuuuv it)
Fresh milk, 1liter 7,85$ (~90p, Rather expensive)
Lettuce, 1kg. 8,79$ (~1.00£, Fair price)
Lemons, 1kg, 12,50$ (~1.30£, Fair price)
Oranges, 1kg 6.95$ (~70p, Fair price)
Butter, 100 gr. 6,59$ (~70p, Rather expensive)
Apples, 1kg. 10.90$ (~1.10£, Fair price)
Potatoes 1kg. 7.50$ (~80p, Fair price)
Chicken, 1kg. 15.80$ (~1.80£, Fair price)
Port Salut Cheese, 69.95$ (~8£, Mucho expensivo:-()
Canned tomatoes, 400 gr. 6.30$ (~70p, Fair price)
Yerba Mate “Special Selection”, 1 kg 27.80$ (~3.00£, Fair price)
Stink since when did 69 dollars equal 8 quid in fact where do you get your exchange rate from you halfwit. If you mean pesos fuckin say so oh that's right you shop in Britain anyway don't you?
Jun 01st, 2013 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lolol - todays Thinko mule produces another spanctacular fubar.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 014. Elaine, I am not surprised, they don't have enough U$ to pay for fuel to get them through winter. With BCRA funds dropping like a rock at this time of year there is no hope for them.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0They need to find every U$ even it if was illegally obtained. The Ks are integral in the drug trade they know who to squeeze.
Cfk maybe looking at some USA prison time, she has no friends here and everyone knows Arg is a Narco-state.
I can't wait until it turns cold in BA!
This is fun to watch from afar
Turnip at (16)
Jun 01st, 2013 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 01) Evidently......, when talking about Argentinean prices of Argentinean products sold in the Argentinean Republic through Argentinean shops to Argentinean consumers, I mean Argentinean Pesos....
http://www.telam.com.ar/advf/documentos/2013/05/51a904e79deba.pdf
2) Nope, I'm not so fancy. I shop locally at boring La Anonima and various other local producers....
http://www.telam.com.ar/advf/documentos/2013/05/51a904e79deba.pdf
I was HORRIFIED to read Think's shopping list.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0According to INDEC and supported by people like Think, you cease to be indigent in Argentina if you can be fed on 6 Pesos per day.
As a teenager and even as an adult I drink about 1 litre of milk a day. There's going to be a generation of stunted and malnourished Argentineans if Think's prices can be believed.
It's like they're living during a war I wonder when will the ration books come out?
Jun 01st, 2013 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think, you forgot porridge! But, I see you are living on dogfood? Steak seems expensive... I should consider popping over to the Falklands with your shopping basket. Nice Waitrose and M&S stuff over there.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 12:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18 Yes, the article said Moreno has a list and he is working through it. Though it does look as though he will get $2b at best, even with the threats. What was even more interesting is the in-fighting going on. Apparently CFK is very displeased with Moreno at the moment and the rest of the Ministers are all blaming each other for the crisis. That they realise they are in crisis is a huge breakthrough.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(22) Faz
Jun 01st, 2013 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I didn't forget porridge......
I don't do porridge..........
That's for English sissies......
Anyhow, I get my raw oats from a local producer in barder for technical expertise with his newly started micro-distillery...
Chubutean Single Malts on their way........
You find 4£ for a kg. Prime Rib Eye expensive???
Where are you from?
Bangladesh?
23. Yes, admitting there is a problem is a 1st step.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They'll be in a circular firing squad soon enough
Their problem is they are run by Marxists thugs and will do exactly the opposite of what they need to do to actually fix the problems.
My bet is they will default, inflate the currency base dramatically (even more than the 40% /yr they're doing now), devalue 16-20/1 after elections
They will be in hyperinflation soon enough, it's not if but when
Just wait to see how long BA is blacked out with every cold snap.
My guess is the large Int'l mfgs will start packing up soon too.
The only road they have is from bad to worse
TWIMC
Jun 01st, 2013 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We Argies seem to be doomed!
Let's learn from our bald Yankee friends....
If survival is the goal….
It’s into the Spiderhole….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEcMtw4_UHo
We like to be prepared, marxism scares us and until Obama et al are gone people will take the necessary measures.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is doomed whether you want to admit it or not it up to you.
My guess it will take a generation and a lot of bullets (maybe rope) to fix Argentina this time.
I'm glad Think and his doggies are eating well, I would hate to think a dumb animal was going hungry.... and the same goes for his doggies !
Jun 01st, 2013 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0snigger
i just love this comment: The “watch to protect’ program is in response to the growing disappointment in Argentina with inflation, a fact that the government of President Cristina Fernandez refuses to accept and blames business and entrepreneurs who ‘hike prices taking advantage of the strong demand triggered by the inclusive Kirchnerite model’
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The inclusive Kirchnerite model
no what does that really mean? You're all included in the shit, but the Kirchners aren't?
The Kirchners will pretend to be included in the shit they've caused?
its hilarious...
but then so is a government that asks its citizens to grass-up on any business that tries to sell their goods at a price they want to - that degree of state control is shocking.. the establishment of pro-government groups to snitch on businesses is even worse...
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We Argies seem to be doomed!”
well the ones living in Argentina anyway, which means you should be fine.
TWIMC
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Doomsday preparedness…
The new multi billion industry in the USA...
A lot of Anglo paranoid turnips in here at MercoPress, I reckon…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4jEGZCUEB8
So the Brown Shirts are on the way into a supermarket near you (if you live in The Dark Country) but not to worry, there won't be anything ON the shelves very soon to buy even with the bog paper argies pesos.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yes, it’s all coming together for a civil war before things get better. Or there could be a takeover by Dilma.
Chris, If someone wanted Argentina they would have taken it by now. The only thing that will fix that country is a lot more disappeared.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0a lot more
30K wasn't near enough
I can confirm Thinks list is fairly accurate. I too shop in La Anonima. Rice and Sugar at ARS$3 seems to be quite a bit less than I can remember paying but everything else seems close. My experience compared to my home country is that raw and unprocessed foods are relatively cheap, however anything thats processed such as cheeses, cereals are relatively more expensive. Where things get expensive (at least at the official exchange rate) in Argentina is for manufactured consumer products. Think clothes, cars, electronics. At the blue rate however, these things become very cheap. Its a pity only foreigners like me or rich people are the only ones who can take advantage of the cheaper prices allowed by the blue rate. All the poorer people pay the more expensive prices, have no means to save, and are becoming ever more dependant on the state. Some think this is a good thing though.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Speaking about Paranoid Anglo Doomsday Preppers, I proudly present.......:
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(31) ChrisR
(32) yankeeboy
My two best sock-puppets :-)))
In May not ONE company planned to hire new staff or increase hours. NOT ONE!
Jun 01st, 2013 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How odd
I wonder why?
Heterodox economics
It is like saying gravity doesn't' exist in Argentina
I laughed and laughed when I heard that
laughed and laughed
I guess they're finding out the hard way
good
(34) yankeeboy
Jun 01st, 2013 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Companies?
What companies?
Most of them left Argentina long ago...
The rest are closed due to energy shortages....
Don't you read your own posts???
It will be interesting to see the Macri Index
Jun 01st, 2013 - 05:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My guess is it will be somewhere between 30-40%
You can't really count the price controlled items since they won't be stocked for sale.
You forget I lived there
I know how it works
@19 well if you mean pesos say pesos dickhead you must know the exchange rate between the dollar and pound FFS even Dover is not that far in the dark ages
Jun 01st, 2013 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@37 yankeeboy
Jun 01st, 2013 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think we MAY of hit a nerve or two with El Think!
At least I KNOW I am in good company!
LOLs
She is sensitive
Jun 01st, 2013 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stink I bet you have milk bottle glasses and a hairy hand, sad puppy that you are, do you sit at the end of the bar all by yourself?
Jun 01st, 2013 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still stroking that persian, dreaming of world domination, anti-turnip defences armed and ready...
Jun 01st, 2013 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0stroking that Persian or a Persian, they are pretty close to Iran these days after all
Jun 01st, 2013 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0PMSL this is the funniest thread.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 043:That's the saddest, most baffling thing of all - cosying up to the country that thought it was perfectly ok to commit a terrorist attack (twice!) on their soil and engage in this elaborate farce that they plan to do anything about it. You'd think they would have learned 20 years ago-taking taking money from Persians is a really bad idea.
Jun 01st, 2013 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stink do you get it Persian Iran? ..................Probably not
Jun 01st, 2013 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lookout argentines NOVEMBER is a coming...stock up NOW!!! the shortages are near!
Jun 01st, 2013 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 024 Think
Jun 01st, 2013 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyhow, I get my raw oats from a local producer in barder for “technical expertise” with his newly started micro-distillery...
Chubutean Single Malts on their way........
Excellent...can you keep us posted on progress.
James always adds a interesting article:
Jun 01st, 2013 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/132302/inflation-fighters-come-to-the-rescue
stinks gone quiet down the legion perhaps?
Jun 01st, 2013 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Queuing for toilet paper!
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 12:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Bolivarian Empire has become quite a place to be. Where else can one fine currency police, toilet paper police and inflation police? With these campora inflation patrols, I see stores getting vandalized when a retailer tries to cover his gross margins, doesn't seem to be an allowable action in Argentina.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 01:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0They need homodox economics.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 04:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is real simple, even a marxist moron have to understand it at some level. If something can't be sold at a profit it won't be produced regardless of how badly in demand it is. Either it is simple stupidity or it is the opening move in a nationalization drive to take over all those traitorous companies that refuses to subsidize KFC's regime.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 08:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently a lot of the items on the list are not actually available in the supermarkets. Who would have thought it?
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 055 ElaineB
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Toilet paper one of them yet?
Price controls bring empty shelves...nah not possible it's a heterodox economy.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0retards
Would you like to know how to make an Argentine ration burger?
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0A meat coupon between two bread coupons wrapped in a Pesetas bill
Bread, flour, sugar and more. No mention of loo-roll. :) Also, the items on the list are limited to two units per family. I believe that is called rationing.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ahh back to the 70s...seems like they're missing something though..what is it? Hmm what is it? I just can't put my finger on it ...hmmm
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I like the 'toll-free' phone number touch, an implicit recognition of the importance of prices to incentives.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In other news, all diseases involving fever as symptoms have been cured in Argentina as thermometers showing temperatures above normal human body temperature have been banned.
Any doctor or nurse found with an infringing thermometer may have their temperature taken in a way that a cat would recognise, say La Campora.
As the navy can't sail and the Argentine air force aircraft are too dangerous for even the pilots to fly, at least the shopkeepers caught by Maximo's mates stealing all the pies, aren't going to end up being pushed out into the sea for the heinous shop crimes CFK is to invent.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Notice the war criminal Eva Peron in the background.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, 4- more years please to finish Argentina.
@24 Don't you worry about it, Twinky. Porridge is for the purpose of growing hair on your balls. Hardly necessary in your case! But it's clever to try to use oats to produce something that might be useful in an engine. When will you be getting a car? But a tip. Prime Rib Eye is only what it says on the label. Slice of child buttock is closer to the mark.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@26 Of course you're doomed. You're stupid faggots. The world hates you.
@30 What you need to do is to bury your head in the sand. For a week. After that we'll consider breathing.
@34 Not a good idea. Those that you suggest are your sock-puppets are far more intelligent. A sock-puppet is a thick, brainless, ludicrous twat. Try Marcos Alexandro. He (?) fits all the criteria. and he's a wanker as well. Not that it does any good. Still just wee.
@36 Not surprised you don't understand. Company is what you have when people that like you come to your home to be with you. Has that happened for you since the 18th century?
@54 It is real simple, even a marxist moron have to understand it at some level. If something can't be sold at a profit it won't be produced regardless of how badly in demand it is.
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marxists do understand it, they just try to make people produce stuff at a loss by force, because profit is exploitation according to their ideology. Price controls are merely a compromise to improve the Marxist's image.
http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/argentina#paying-taxes
Jun 02nd, 2013 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If a company is in BA and wants to pay all of their taxes legally they'd owe 108% of their profits
and they wonder why
Think
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 01:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good luck on your whisky venture.
@58 lol
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 04:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0In February, when price controls first came in, Moreno said that the big Supermarket chains had around 10.000 articles on their shelves, and now he is saying that he is fixing the prices of 500 of them, but leaving 9.500 of them free of price controls!!!!!
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the case of the famous 500 articles, they are identified by trade mark, not by type of article, so that trade mark will disappear from the shelves to be replaced by another trade mark!!!!!!!
These bolshevicks are stupider that a botload of monkeys (with appologies to the monkeys)!!!!!!!!!
(48) Condorito & (67) Chicureo
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As you can see, the still is too little to even satisfy the local demand….
http://cache.nebula.phx3.secureserver.net/obj/NzAwQzU0QkQ1MTQ4QkIwOTEyRkI6NWNjNWE3NDIxOTI5YzAxZTc4NjE1YzdkM2ZlYzlhYWU=
The Shilean market will have to wait patiently until El Gringo finds a bigger one.
Saludos
El Think
When you can't get good imported stuff you have to have the local crap.
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ever try Rg vodka?
We call it moonshine
2 drinks and you are in blackout
Good stuff!
No Moonshine.....
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All licenses in order...
El Gringo is a straight Idahoan!
yeah it looks very legal and sanitary
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At ~70% Cask Strenght; very sanitary indeed…….. :-)))
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A will Argentina start suffering shortages that it can blame on the CIA a la Venezuela?
Jun 03rd, 2013 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Even if we forewarn them now?
So basically 5% of inventory are loss leaders, limited to two a family. And by the end of the year, the discout on tnhose items will reach 40%, per the increase money supply.
Jun 04th, 2013 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great Great sleight of hand-watch the 500 prices here, not the 9500 pricees over there!
This will mean nothing to to the coward trolls that ran away from Argentina, but it will to real Argentine's as this is their future:
Jun 04th, 2013 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am prepared to talk all the risks with this to defeat the scourge of food contraband,
http://news.yahoo.com/rationing-begin-venezuelan-state-172641854.html
It is not rationing, it is addressing contraband food, like the contraband toilet paper.
Great announcement and lovely picture =)
Jun 10th, 2013 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#63 Notice the war criminal Eva Peron in the background
That must be one of the silliest comments on this forum, feel free to disagree with/dislike Evita, but how can she be a war criminal when she was never at war?!
@78 BSK
Jun 10th, 2013 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How about this then for argie double standards?
Eva WAS a prostitute who became the 'First Lady' of The Dark Country.
The mother of one of my Uruguayo friends was in BsAs with her husband on business and she was sitting in a restaurant waiting to order. The day had been very hot and the restaurant was very warm, even for her as she sat in her lovely new summer dress.
The manager approached and asked her to dress properly, indicating at her 'bare' shoulders. He said 'The Lady has given out instructions that all female diners should have the shoulders covered, at least by a fine shawl'. When asked who 'The Lady' was, she was told in all seriousness, 'The First Lady' of course.
They did the only sensible thing and left the place.
THAT is your Eva Peron for you.
Ha, ha, ha.
BK.....let's tretend for a moment your are Scottish. Tell me, is it a crime to aid and a abet a criminal fugative in the UK? Simple question BK?
Jun 10th, 2013 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your pussy ass hero's, the Peron finally sided and joined that allies weeks before hitler killed himself. Fucking cowards .....to get a piece of the pie. Seems the fickle finger of fate pointed it's finger at Argentina, took Eva's life and plagued Argentina for choosing poorly.
Some like reading BK
http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Odessa-Criminals-Argentina/dp/1862075522
@78 BSK
Jun 10th, 2013 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How about this then for argie double standards?
Eva WAS a prostitute who became the 'First Lady' of The Dark Country.
The mother of one of my Uruguayo friends was in BsAs with her husband on business and she was sitting in a restaurant waiting to order. The day had been very hot and the restaurant was very warm, even for her as she sat in her lovely new summer dress.
The manager approached and asked her to dress properly, indicating at her 'bare' shoulders. He said 'The Lady has given out instructions that all female diners should have the shoulders covered, at least by a fine shawl'. When asked who 'The Lady' was, she was told in all seriousness, 'The First Lady' of course.
They did the only sensible thing and left the place.
THAT is your Eva Peron for you.
Ha, ha, ha.
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