ARGENTINE LEADERS’ ‘CREATIVE LIES’ ACCORDING TO A
LEADING ITALIAN NEWSPAPER
Via Mercopress
A leading ITALIAN newspaper has
published a very critical piece on ARGENTINA, its honesty and what it describes
as the succession of ‘creative lies’ in the country’s recent history going back
to the myth about Evita Peron, the blood thirsty generals, Maradona, Carlos
Menem one peso/one dollar, Cristina Kirchner and the latest clash with the IMF
over manipulation of official inflation and GDP stats.
Under the heading of “Creative lies
from ARGENTINE friends Maradona, Kirchner and false stats”, the Corriere
della Sera begins the article in the front page with the IMF ‘declaration
of censure’ and enumerates a succession of events including the famous ‘1
dollar equals 1 Peso’ from President Carlos Menem time that led to the massive
default of 2001 and heavy losses, among others, to 300.000 Italian pensioners
holders of ARGENTINE sovereign bonds: the so called in ITALY, ‘tango-bonds’.
“ARGENTINE candidates lie to the
people, and they know it. They also lie if elected during and after leaving
office, and the long tradition of exaggerations, omissions, conspiration and
hearsays which always crop up are considered matters of State”, writes Rocco
Cotroneo who works for the Italian daily from BRAZIL.
“Cristina Kirchner as her husband
Nestor, have been cheating with the inflation stats for years, plus the refusal
to publish some stats that are key to the economy, ‘unconceivable for a
democracy’ “.
The article then quotes the great ARGENTINE
writer Jorge Luis Borges who referring to the Peronists (the largest (only!!!) political movement in ARGENTINA)
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peronism
and the spiritual mentors of Cristina Fernandez said: “they are not good or
bad, they are simply incorrigible”.
Rocco points out to the current
history revisionism, involving Evita Peron, “Cristina Fernandez maximum myth”,
full of white lies beginning with her age: “she was not born in 1922, but in
1919 and the Broadway musical exaggerated her background, she was not of a
miserable origin but rather belonged to a middle class solid family; however
official propaganda did the job”.
As to the military dictatorships
they lied to the country most of the time and to the world: the blood-thirsty generals
denied torturing and massacring their own people, declared victory over the UK
during the Falklands’ war…and Carlos Menem did not lose the habit. He made the ARGENTINE
believe during ten years that One Peso was the same as One Dollar until the tragic
end with the ‘tango-bonds’
And let’s not forget the famous hand
of God of Maradona during the match with ENGLAND at the World Cup in 1986, who
denied having scored with his fist but rather that it had been ‘the hand of
God’.
However in an honest admission Rocco
says that in all these lies and cheatings, ITALIANS have a share of blame:
“over 70% of the blood circulating in the River Plate comes from our backyard”.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Argentine
See: ARGENTINA’S
MAIN IMMIGRANT BACKGROUND WAS MOSTLY ITALIAN at: http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/argentine-evolution.html
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