MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Cristina Fernandez claims US is responsible for Judge Griesa's decision
President Cristina Fernandez said US Judge Thomas Griesa decision to declare Argentina 'in contempt of court' in the dispute with speculative funds, was in violation of international law, the UN chart and the OAS (Organization of American States) chart. Read full article
Comments
Disclaimer & comment rulesCFK is playing the Blame game again trying to detract her electorate away from the facts - incompetent economic and political governance. Her use of 'in violation of international law' is rich considering her attitude towards the Falkland Islanders and their right to self-determination which Argentina tries to deny. (Laughably). Little wonder why the country is in dire straights.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0They accept the jurisdiction of the court in order to secure cheaper loans then reject its jurisdiction when they renege on them.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Notice she doesn't specify which “international law” has been breached.
Anyone paying attention to her actions over the last few years already knew she has contempt for the US courts. This is not really news.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still hilarious though
Argentina age 13¾.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's all a matter of interpretation, Argentins thinks it need only say what something is, to make it so!
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0They don't actually read the damn things they sign up to, that would mean they would have an obligation to respect them.
Argentina and respect are not two words you associate with each other.
Some piece of work.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 09:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0International Law?
Unprovoked attack on a sovereign country,
illegal take-over of overseas assets.
Yup, she is some piece of work,
upset about paying the hold-out bond owners - something she could easily do out of the small change in her personally 'accrued ' fortunes.
No practical effect...yet.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just another slap in the face, another embarrassment to live down, another way to show the world that Argentina is a deadbeat scofflaw.
Just incase they missed it before.
The noose is getting tighter and tighter.
I really don't think she'll make it until the end of her term.
Such an ebarrassment to have this crazy old hag running us into the ground.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ok Pagotroll now it's your turn. Let's hear from the La Campora paid troll on what a great job she is doing.
There are so many parallels with the Falklands.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 01. Blaming the UK for the democratic decision of the Falkland islanders.
2. Blaming the US for decisions of an independent judge.
I think what is at the core of this issue is that Argentina and probably south America as a whole really never understood democracy. But we now see it in Spain too, blocking the the vote of Catalonia like it will make a difference in the long run, demanding control of Gibraltar against their expressed will. We sometimes forget that the hispanic world have only had democracy for a short time.
From a legal aspect, they must surely be screwed, who is going to enter into a contract with them under their law, ie UK, FRENCH, SWISS etc, if they are in contempt of a court elsewhere?
Sep 30th, 2014 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Chinese and the Russians maybe, but they have their own way of dealing things like this.
Saying this has no effect on them is rediculous, of course it does, it's prima facia evidence of bad character
It's one think for a financial body to say you do not respect the rule of law and a totally different thing for a court to declare it.
You can not pick and chose which laws you will respect, it doesn't work that way in the real world it's all or none.
Perhaps that's it, they do not actually live in the real world!
Ah! The Mad Bitch Of Argentina, don't you gasp at her ability to tell bare faced lies, even though she hasn't got a bare face just a rubber one.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think she genuinely believes that the US government can control the judges. The reply from Kerry, if he bothers might be an insight to what the US governmant are thinking.
To all of you bellicose human scum including this stooge Judge Griesa, who obviously is in on the the payroll of Singer, that question our beloved Cristina Fernández's leadership in defeating these capitalistic vultures trying to destroy the hardworking laborers efforts to feed their families. It is remarkably clear your evil plans include plundering the hard earned savings of the people of Argentina through economic terrorism which will not be tolerated by our noble leadership.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0The vultures have glaringly revealed their true colors! As Cristina has bravely said, “With me as President, they will not see us on our knees”
The mental picture of this woman on her knees as just reminded me of something.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where did I leave that beer bottle opener?
That is a really ugly mental picture, Botox Queen on her knees....
Sep 30th, 2014 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Argentine president blamed the United States “for the actions of any of its organs, such as the recent decision of its Judicial branch”.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She thinks that because the Argentine government gets away with corrupting democracy by telling the judiciary what to do, that this behaviour applies everywhere. Just another example of why Argenina is not a proper democracy.
*popcorn*
Sep 30th, 2014 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She's off her rocker if she thinks this will wash!
*gets more popcorn*
:-))))
Oh gosh, now they're pulling out the ICJ again.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The USA would never, never, never subject ourselves to ICJ rulings.
Do they not understand Int'l law is what we say it is?
In 30 days they will be declared in default on another class of bonds, cross-default, and nobody will lend to them, nobody.
BCRA “reserves” will continue to fall and at some point they'll have to pay the U$5B they owe to imports. And by my count that's their whole cash position.
Then what?
I hope they know that this will not automatically disappear in Jan 15 when they beg the holdouts to take their money.
By then all defaulted bondholders will have accelerated and they'll be in it deep.
I couldn't be happier.
I am hoping for a HOT DRY Summer, really hot, really dry.
That'll make it interesting.
Oh, the embarrassment for a nation of proud people.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How is she going to explain this away?
Those sound like fighting words.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Should I be worried that the Argintine fleet will appear over the horizon?
Yes, you despicable vulture fund laugh, but soon you will cry. Meanwhile, the Nation of Argentina has more troubling news to our dear leader's son.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentina's Máximo Carlos Kirchner has piled on so much weight that he has fractured both his ankles and remains in hospital after an operation, it was reported today.
The son of the late President Néstor Kirchner and current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the financially troubled nation of Argentina is estimated to have ballooned to 20 stone as a result of fine wining and dining - putting enormous pressure on his feet and legs.
A source who has recently returned to Miami from Buenos Aires said Maximo, believed to be aged 37 is still in hospital under guard from his personal protection team.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2774604/Maximo-hospital-two-fractured-ankles-ballooning-20-stone-going-numerous-meet-people-walkabout-PR-stunts.html#ixzz3EnipkM8l
What is the point of all of this, Argentina won't be able to issue bonds under US Law while ever they remain in contempt. That means they can try to issue bonds under Argentine law but who in their right mind would buy those without an outrageously high interest rate. In the end, they still remained locked out of capital markets.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They are trying to frame this as Argentina vs United States. In reality, Argentina issued bonds to private citizens of the world and agreed to settle any disputes in the courts of the United States. Now the decision didn't go their way, they have changed their mind. This seems incomprehensible to my western brain but quite acceptable to most Rgs that I talk to.
@19
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The way the Argentine navy ships stay afloat I'd be looking under the horizon.
21. All luney dictators always try to blame the USA for their problems. CFK is merely taking on Chavez's vacated position.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is Venezuela without the Oil.
My guess they've seen the last of the 2 digit inflation numbers.
At what point is an economy considered in Hyperinflation?
Anyone know?
:)
“Hyperinflation is a situation where the price increases are so out of control that the concept of inflation is meaningless”
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 024. Yes but is that 100% , 200%, 1000%? At what point will everyone start reporting that Argentina is in Hyperinflation?
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina made public the letter it sent KERRY.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The reply has not been made public, why?
Because he wouldn't dignify such a request, with a reply.
@Taxiboy
Sep 30th, 2014 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 01000% yoy is the most commonly applied definition for hyperinflation but some economists use 50%. Argentina won't reach 1000% but 50%+ seems likely in 2015.
#25 Its subjective, think of it this way, you are buying a car for delivery in 1 week or 1 month but you can't agree on a price because you don't know what the price should be in 1 week, 1 month. Or you wake up in the morning and you don't know how much your bus fare will be that day. We are not there yet but we will get there, the only way to avoid it is to regain access to capital markets and take on debt, or send the country into a spiralling depression.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 02:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I believe there is a middle ground here.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sovereign debtors ought (e.g. Arg, Iceland, Greece, etc) to be able to refinance their delinquent debt , even if it entails giving bondholders a severe haircut. Such debt workouts ought to be negotiated to give the debt restructuring a patina of fairness, not simply dictated on a take it or leave it basis as Arg did in 2005 and 2010. However, even if so dictated, rewrites of debt may be absolutely necessary and beneficial in the long run.
Well drafted collective action clauses that ought to have been included in the original bonds would have prevented the current problem of a small % of holdouts gumming up the works...and perhaps Arg ought to be focused on its lawyers and their malpractice carriers rather than the US govt which supported Arg's position in court.
It's just not realistic to require Arg to repay 100% of the original debt with all interest to the holdouts (incl those similarly situated holdouts waiting in the wings) even though the New York law that Arg's lawyers chose may require such an outcome. The holdouts ought to insist upon a reasonable premium (+actual attny fees) for having had to go through the winning legal process. That position ought to be made public with payment date to be post the RUFI termination date of 12/31. That might go a long way towards resolving this matter on a fair basis, quite apart from the letter of the law. (“The law is a ass”).
By having both sides dig their heels in is a losing position for both.
p.s. The only benefit to a continuation of the struggle is the post judgment discovery into the ties between Baez and the Kirchners. I have little doubt there is going to be proof of corruption unearthed.
ck loses more and more her brain.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ #29
Sep 30th, 2014 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An interesting concept with one major drawback. It will give rogue states, such as Argentina, a formula for reneging on their debt even more than they do at the moment.
How long before they start blaming this mob?
Sep 30th, 2014 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/171040/questions-arise-over-strategy-carried-out-by-argentine-lawyers
At least they can be considered partially responsible for this shambles.
Plain idiotic.... When is this nightmare going to finish??
Sep 30th, 2014 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Meanwhile, Boudou got hauled in and fingerprinted. Look squirrel!
Sep 30th, 2014 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/171060/vp-boudou-in-court-to-have-fingerprints-taken
I do not know english. One virtue!
Sep 30th, 2014 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@32 Idlehands
Sep 30th, 2014 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they should have arranged a “no fee no win” agreement.
@1, 2. what would argieland know about international law? Remember Panama and Noriega? Get in there!
Sep 30th, 2014 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@19. The argie 'fleet' couldn't appear 'over' anything. Can argies 'breathe' water?
@20. So. A fat argie slug that will die soon. How is this news?
@29. Got another 'name' you'd like to 'share' with us? How about 'british bummer' or 'hepatitis'?
@34. And quite soon argies will be 'shadows'. Otherwise known as dead. Translate that!
I wonder how many of you remember me saying this next collapse will be worse than 2001, remember the Rgidiots claiming no other person was saying that and said it will be a mild downturn and I was obviously lying and have no idea what I am talking about
Sep 30th, 2014 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hmm remember that?
Well Lo and Behold, economists are now predicting it this will be worse than 2001 and expect a 9% downturn in the economy from now to the end of the year.
I love saying I TOLD YOU SO...
just love it.
Bahahahahahaha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIHb0r8OmwA&index=2&list=TL7g_2SsyEjYuTfGy4cmCcCNAMZ5GflAyg
Sep 30th, 2014 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The new Empire borns!
Comment removed by the editor.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't rush, we can wait.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@39 9%....fuck. Do you have any sources fire this figure. Would be helpful. Cheers
Sep 30th, 2014 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“”“”“”Argentines have forgotten this place long ago. Now you speak with their shadows.“”“”“”“
Sep 30th, 2014 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0now THAT, is a superb saying. I like it VERY much.
Almost as good as the Russian: ”Its time to spit on its grave and walk away”.
(About a subject flogged too death)
#25
Sep 30th, 2014 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is 444% enough?
https://twitter.com/taos/status/516993368518561793/photo/1
I lived through an annual inflation rate of 25% (1974) - really bad years for the UK and the world.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oil crisis - price quadrupled overnight, stock market crash, Arab-Iraeli war, etc, etc.
Just imagine what an Argentinian 50% rate would feel like! Pity the people.
Cristina is so concerned about Maximo's health, she has not been able to carry out retribution yet, but be afraid, be very afraid.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More of the proud EUian army:
Sep 30th, 2014 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/world/europe/german-militarys-problems-prompt-talk-of-more-defense-spending.html?_r=0
The German military?
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now is the time for Patagonia to declare its intentions to hold a referendum for independence from Argentina,
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and other states should do the same,
now is the time for Argentina to break up ,
and start a new fresh honest decent democratic new nations,
before the unmighty CFK drags you further into the gutter or into another conflict.
The US Embassy just issued a travel alert for Argentina.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder what took so long.
Strong intervention by BCRA on the fake peso rate
I find that very very odd.
It the last think I would do with limited funds.
They'd be better off throwing the cash out the window.
@53
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Keep dreaming
@54
Nobody cares
LOL! @54
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder who is going to deal with the SIS threat in Argentina?
@53 I think we will see more travel alerts. It is going to get ugly for a while.
How can you argue about silliness when the Nation of Argentina has more troubling news about our dear leader's son.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentina's Máximo Carlos Kirchner has piled on so much weight that he has fractured both his ankles and remains in hospital after an operation, it was reported today.
The son of the late President Néstor Kirchner and current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the financially troubled nation of Argentina is estimated to have ballooned to 20 stone as a result of fine wining and dining - putting enormous pressure on his feet and legs.
A source who has recently returned to Miami from Buenos Aires said Maximo, believed to be aged 37 is still in hospital under guard from his personal protection team.”
ISIS threat in Argentina? You have been drinking again. But that's expected of the British.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The british slammed the Portuguese researcher that described the British in lapidary fashion.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/16/portugese-prof-joao-magueijo-english-disgusting-beasts_n_5827844.html
Yet here is Sacha Baron Cohen CONFIRMING it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/16/portugese-prof-joao-magueijo-english-disgusting-beasts_n_5827844.html
Argentina should issue a TRAVEL warning to the UK.
And the UK is an operating room compared to the USA. A travel ban there should have been done long ago.
the USA is the dirtiest most filthy nation that has ever existed. Hygiene there is non-existent. Everyone has Lyme disease, West Nile virus, Chikunguya, and a bunch of other illnesses like mutant bacteria at hospital.
Horrendous place to live.
@57 Can't you get medication? Why all the exaggerating?
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0bla bla bla,
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and the street's of Argentina are paved with gold,
USA dirty? Bahahahaha every single person that visits from SA remarks how clean and organized everything is.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Elaine is right I think the very last of your meds have worn off. Its gonna be all down hill from here.
LNG tankers lined up because BCRA has no U$ to pay for them
Glorious.
OAS to the rescue
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2014/09/30/oas-to-the-rescue-of-obama-calls-on-country-members-to-accept-guantanamo-detainees
OAS, Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza “urged the United States to close the Guantanamo Bay facility without delay and arrange for the trial or release of the detainees” and called on member countries to consider receiving detainees in Guantanamo.
And ISIS may well come to argentina sooner than you think..
.
Tranni boi, you've been gone a few days. It seems you estrogen treatments have run amok. It that what La campora is giving your for a script these days? Listening to you talk about the USA is like listening to someone talk about life on the closet planet in the closet star system. Get a life tranni boi and change your pads.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Better still, Argentins should ban all travel to the UK, starting with the party of and I use term loosely, “Law makers” who are shortly to plague our shores.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No! No! No! It's all to much to wish for, one should not get ones hopes up, disappointment can be such a cruel thing!
Ask Normans mother, she should know.
57
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is true, Britain and África and Oceania are siks!
wow! I just knew this was gonna get dirty, real fast! Last looked about 14 hrs ago....
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Already 60 comments!
Other posters have already said much of what I would, so no need for repetition.
Although I will just add one thing.
Does Krass-tina & Co, have any idea how this is being recieved in the international community/ international financial world?
She can only play to the domestic audience for so long, before reality bites her bum.
Wow!
* orders pizza, reclines in comfy chair in lovely London apartment*
:-)))
*ilsen likes fireworks, heheheheee!*
Southern Islamic State (SIS) are already in Argentina.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yb have you read that oil is crashing and OPEC is back to building it's supply chains. We're averaging 3.29 in eastern Mass. I read reports for that 2.75 mark this late winter/spring.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://finance.yahoo.com/news/crude-oil-price-crashes-gasoline-175028567.html
@ 56 Chicureo
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I noticed Maximus Prattus had received a head transplant from his brother.
Yes, he has a brother, not previously seen but a remarkable dopple-ganger for the idiot who runs North Korea.
By the way everybody around him was crying you would have thought the baby was for the pot. And I don't mean a potty!
Naughty boy!
As evidenced by the presence of Jihadist Juan aka TTT, posting from his (padded) sleeper cell in his mums basement.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 066. There is sharia courts in Britain, divisions of UK nationals in ISIS and you say Argentina ??? Common at least recognize that you are a total fuck up in that area.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not that some of you bits are very brave adressing and discussing these things with Toby the troll but dont even dare do so with me.
Ohhh yepp
Cretina, your Gringo Amigos acknowledge their repsonisibility for the actions of the esteemed Judge Griesa and hereby heartily endorse them. Now what?
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, Cretina - you are so funny (looking)!
BUENOS AIRES–USA Today 30Sep14 President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has said that her government was applying the “socialist Peronist formula: an abandoned company taken over by the working class,” in reference to last week’s occupation of restaurants belonging to the U.S. fast food giant, the McDonalds Corporation.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“It’s the government new policy. Any company that is abandoned will be taken over by the working class with the support of the revolutionary Peronist government. Let it be known,” Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said during a cabinet meeting aired Monday on state television channel.
The Argentinian government Saturday announced the “temporary” occupation of the McDonalds restaurants as well as the resumption of serving the public once “operational restrictions” are done away with.
The McDonalds Corporation reported Monday from its U.S. headquarters in Chicago that it had left Argentina due to measures imposed by Fernández's government, economic uncertainty, employment laws and supply interruptions.
President Cristina said that the closure by the multinational was due to the “economic war” on his government by certain players who want to end her mandate, and which, she says, had entered a new phase of “international financial war.”
The U.S. Company said in a statement that for almost three years it was forced to sell over two-thirds of its products at prices determined by the government which led to a huge increase in the costs of production and steady operational losses.
ChrisR, you're dulling my hooks.
That's cos us Bits think that you some time talk sense and not total, utter, 100% shite, like Tobi!
Sep 30th, 2014 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Sharia courts are set up by Muslim communities themselves, they are voluntary, they carry no legal standing in UK law and neither do their judges, both court and judges are subject to UK law, not exempt from it.
They carry as much authority as a court set up by the Jedi's, which if you research, you will find is also a recognised religion in the UK.
I personally disagree with them, but it's the price you pay for religious tolerance and freedoms.
57 Nostrum of NostrolL
Sep 30th, 2014 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How much did your lords and masters pay you for posting that shite?
Whats the going rate for a La Campora troll these days anyway?
Lets hope your pay is inflation linked eh Tobi?
@73
Sep 30th, 2014 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well said and clearly explained. I agree with you.
@72.
Argentina has entered so deeply into a world of fantasy and make believe, I am now unsure as to know when you are joking or serious.
I once said, in jest, that it would not be to long before Cristina appointed a horse to the Senate.
Yet now she seems to have gone far past such a sensible decision!
@70. Hey, I didn't make it up. A group of Argentines responsible for the death threats to CFK claim they represent SIS - Southern Islamic State, a local jihadists group. Make of that what you will. Of course, the young Argentines could be lying.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@72 LOL! Nac&Pop! Did you read that the 180 employees are looking for the Kirchner supporting owner, on account of not being paid for, like, ages?
@39 Source please.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 073. I rather be a smart intolerant of Islam than a tolerant idiot.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#75 & 76
Sep 30th, 2014 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In order to mislead the IMF, the famous “Big Mac” index was manipulated by the Argentine government which caused enormous losses to the McDonalds Corporation along with ridiculous employment obligations which has caused continuous losses for nearly the past decade.
Apparently, the panicked Maximo urged his mother to stall the shutdown as it would mean an end to his unlimited free supply of Quarter Pounder combination deals and chocolate shakes.
The most important lesson is that Cristina is bravely taking on the world. The English pirates, Spaniards, the Yankees, the IMF, the WTC, Mercosur, all the credit ranking agencies, and many more which includes multi national food companies, such as McDonalds
Cristina is sending in the Infanteria due to the ever increasing violence in Hospital.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Rut Ro
Sounds to me like it is all going swimmingly.
USA State basically told Argentina to stop whining and pay your debts.
Bahahaha
What a silly bunch of monkeys.
“Cristina claims...”
Sep 30th, 2014 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Cristina blames...”
“Cristina insists...”
“Cristina demands...”
“Cristina blasts...”
“Cristina attacks...”
LOL!
Is it true that Fat Max is in hospital in MIAMI, Florida, USA?
Sep 30th, 2014 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If so will he seized by Singer so they can melt the whale blubber for soap and sell the meat to Japan?
Should pay off at least a quarter of the debt...
#82 ILSEN
Sep 30th, 2014 - 11:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He wasn't harpooned and is still alive munching clear eclairs in his hospital bed. The quality of the blubber and meat would be considered rancid at best.
He seems to be recovering as the McDonald drive through autoMacs are back in operation.
Why do the USA put up with CFK,
Oct 01st, 2014 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Has she something to offer..
One question to the people from the island , uk or wherever you come from ..
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0What opinions do you have about my country ?
I think you see us as the laughing stock of the world...
Frankly, I see it as a tragedy, but then the government interjects an element of bathos, and the whole sad story becomes to all appearance, a Zarzuela. Sad really.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0USA........you are from Argentina aimee? Only you leadership and the people who believe her.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0yes from argentina i am..
Oct 01st, 2014 - 01:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now she says the terrible gringos are coming to kill her. Not sure why they'd waste the money on the operation, since by all rights, she has to be their best weapon against the Argentine Republic.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 02:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/171087/%E2%80%98if-something-happens-to-me-look-north%E2%80%99-cristina-warns
Good god i want out. I cannot wait for this government to be out in 1 year.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 03:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0It will take decades to put the country back on its feet.
@90
Oct 01st, 2014 - 03:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0As the old Romans used to say, “May Good Fortune Attend.” I mean that sincerely. ;)
If, as the Argentina government says, US Federal Judge Griesa's contempt order is 'baseless, has no impact’ ... why do the members of the Argentina government spend hours and hours and a lot of energy on denying the “non-existent” impact?
Oct 01st, 2014 - 04:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Whatever they say, the real world's reactions are always the strongest.
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/171056/gov%E2%80%99t-says-griesa-contempt-order-baseless-has-no-impact%E2%80%99
@78
Oct 01st, 2014 - 04:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0There you go, yet another freedom, freedom of choice.
Unfortunately for you and perhaps me, expressing such intolerance where I live, may get you in trouble with the law, it's classed as a racially motivated hate crimes.
Most people here will tell you, that if there is one thing absolutely garaunteed, to get you incarcerated in our enviable prison system, it's that word racial.
Steal, cheat and to some degree cause harm and you will get punished, but stick the word racial in front of it and you are going to prison, quicker than you can say Muslim Extremist!
@85 Aimee
Oct 01st, 2014 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Many of us have the utmost respect for the Argentine nation but your government is leading you all into a mire of despair. La Kretina and her cronies have mismanaged everything since the assumption of power by her husband. The blatant corruption seems to be accepted by those her put her into power but the blame is never hers - now the US is to blame for everything.
However, it is reported that her popularity is declining rapidly - maybe the situation can be arrested before it goes further.
With all respect.
(Las Malvinas son territorio británico - nunca han pertenecido a Argentina)
Aimee no one here really blames the people of Argentina. At most those who voted her/them in office, as we do in every nation that votes. You tell us.....will the people of Argentina stop this madness from Kirchner, or will they continue to vote in her cronies?
Oct 01st, 2014 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0We don't blame the people,
Oct 01st, 2014 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0yet her devoted trolls come here and defend her,
so some ... but not all.
@91.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you, you too. :)
This idiot and her followers makes me feel so ashamed to be argentine. God, i hate this place.
@93,
Oct 01st, 2014 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Off topic, but exactly what race is “muslim?”
#98
Oct 01st, 2014 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A faith, not race...
The moderates can be quite decent folk, but the extreme believers deserve a special place in the afterlife...
Define moderate.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One that kills you quickly versus sawing your head off with a serrated kitchen knife.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly. An extremist is simply a pious Muslim. A moderate is non-pious, non-practicing Muslim.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just verified the incredibly low level of professional competency of the legal minds in rotting roadkill. The dark land has been lobbying and praying for the demise of Judge Griesa. Apparently they are totally unaware of the principle of stare decisis and think that the existence of the Judge's decisions are dependent on him remaining in his position. lol.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, I guess it is the U.S fault for Judge Griesa's decision. His decisions are in accordance with the laws of the U.S. He is a U.S. judge, and we have 3 branches of government. Argentina should read up on the U.S. court system before signing contracts to be under U.S. law.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 11:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Calling the US government responsible is like a criminal in a court saying.....if I get sentenced to prison, it's the police's fault for arresting me.
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, I think crows fit the bill very nicely...
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If only we were responsible for his ruling I would be in glory. But, politicians do not have strings on judges like in Argentina.
Oct 02nd, 2014 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Captain Poppy thanks for the answer and Gordo thanks too
Oct 03rd, 2014 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do you think this is going to end ? No this is just the beggining , her cronnies are going to participate the next election so perhaps they will win , it is likely that we would be under kirchner role again ... she wants to be the second rate of eva peron perhaps you know her ..
Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!