THE
NEW TECHNOCRATIC GOVERNMENT OF ARGENTINA
Most of MACRI'S reported
appointees were privately educated in ARGENTINA and went on to do further
studies in elite USA universities.
For those who oppose
neoliberalism its seems amazing that ARGENTINA still has not learnt from the
effects of Neoliberalism, for the new president will once again be the puppet
of WASHINGTON, just as CARLOS MENEM had shown how it is done – the current
misery ARGENTINA is in goes back to arch – neoliberal DOMINGO CAVALLO.
A
GOOD KING (PRESIDENT) IS NEVER BETTER THAN A BAD PARLIAMENT
Unfortunately
ARGENTINA has a presidential system ….
Geo-politically speaking it seems
that neoliberalism is currently winning the game, with the help of the “fight
against terror” doctrine as well as the corporate media. As some political
observers indicated, one cannot permanently resist the doctrines of the
international finance mafia, so governments opposing these policies have to be
changed and run by technocrats who are submissive to international corporations,
financial institutions thus creating the de – facto CORPORATOCRACY.
Background Information: MANCHESTER
LIBERALISM
THE GEOPOLITICS OF
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
ELLIOT CAPITAL HEDGE FUNDS, A
CLIENT AND SHAREHOLDER OF FITCH RATING AGENCY?
US COURT RULING ON ARGENTINE
BOND DEFAULT- THE PARIS CLUB, USA AGRICULTURE COMPANIES, AND INTERNATIONAL
FINANCIAL SPECULATORS “GRAB” FOR ARGENTINA
MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO
ROUND – AND LOTS OF MONEY IS AT STAKE IN ARGENTINA
RATING AGENCIES, THE FEDERAL
RESERVE, THE PARIS CLUB, THE IMF, brokers and speculator
PAYMENT
TO HEDGE FUNDS WILL INVOLVE HUGE TRANSFER OF RESOURCES AND PENSIONS FROM
WORKERS TO WALL STREET
MACRI had promised to end ARGENTINA’S
isolation from WALL STREET financial markets through negotiations with vulture
funds that hold ARGENTINE debt and to remove regulations that allegedly stand
in the way of big business investments. The
payment of that debt, even under favorable terms for ARGENTINA, will
undoubtedly require a huge transfer of resources and pensions from workers to WALL
STREET.
MACRI has also promised to
devalue the ARGENTINE peso and remove transportation, energy and other
subsidies to the poor and middle class. Devaluation, attacks on social
programs, deregulation—each of these measures represent an assault on jobs and
living standards. But thanks to the corporate media a small majority of working
class ARGENTINE voters have succumb into believing that this model is the best
for them.
ECONOMIC
HIT –MEN – TARGET LATIN AMERICA
LATIN AMERICA is currently facing
a standoff between Neoliberalism fostered by the USA and UK versus Social
Democracy. Thus it comes of no surprise that also the current center left BRAZILIAN
administration is under scrutiny for corruption, the scandal strategically made
public during a period where the BRAZILIAN economy is stagnating. Its seems the
decade old fight between left and right is once again fought on the grounds of
good old LATIN AMERICA.
Background Information: ARGENTINE'S GLOOMY FUTURE
IMF PLEADS GUILTY BUT INSISTS
ON AUSTERITY
WALL STREET ANIMOSITY AGAINST
ARGENTINA
LATAM NOT ADHERING TO VULTURE
FINANCE SYSTEM DICTATED BY IMF, WORLD BANK AND CORPORATIONS
Thus it comes as no surprise that
MAURICO MACRI a multi-millionaire engineer,
who de-facto was elected by the
neo-liberal US finance elite and corporations won the election.
Following the footsteps of CARLOS
MENEM and arch – neoliberalist DOMINGO CAVALLO,
MACRI
chose a technocratic cabinet which showcases CORPORATOCRACY, made in the USA - at
its best:
Ministry
of Finance
EX
WALL STREET BANKER AT THE HELM OF THE FINANCE MINISTRY: Alfonso PRAT GAY, an
economist trained at PENNSYLVANIA University and former WALL STREET banker with
J.P. MORGAN in LONDON and NEW YORK, President of ARGENTINA'S Central Bank. Like
MACRI, he went to school at the elite conservative CARDINAL NEWMAN COLLEGE in BUENOS
AIRES.
Foreign
Ministry
A
CEO AND MANAGER OF INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AT THE HELM OF THE FOREIGN
MINISTRY: Susana MALCORRA has a predominant business background,
having worked for companies including IBM and TELECOM ARGENTINA as well for the
UNITED NATIONS.
Cabinet
chief
A
TECHNOCRATIC CABINET - MARCOS PENA CABINET CHIEF - US
educated, where his father worked for the INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. With
economic decisions now taken by a sub-cabinet of six ministries, PEÑA has
turned to two businessmen - GUSTAVO LOPETEGUI, the current CEO of LAN ARGENTINA,
and MARIO QUINTANA, president of PEGASUS VENTURE CAPITAL - as his cabinet
secretaries.
Energy
Ministry
FORMER
SHELL CEO JUAN JOSE ARANGUREN WILL BE MINISTER OF ENERGY AND MINES. He will
be in charge of attracting investment to the VACA MUERTA formation, the world’s
second-largest shale gas deposit and fourth-largest shale oil reservoir. He’ll
also head up attempts to unravel the current government’s system of utility
bill subsidies.
See:
ARGENTINE SHALE GAS PRODUCTION COULD ALTER THE SOUTHERN CONES GEOPOLITICAL
LANDSCAPE
US
COMPANY CHEVRON REGAINS FOOTHOLD IN ARGENTINA’S OIL SECTOR
Ministry
of interior
FORMER
PRESIDENT OF THE CITY-RUN BANK BANCO CIUDAD ROGELIO FRIGERIO will be
minister of the interior. He is the grandson of ROGELIO JULIO FRIGERIO, who
acted as economic adviser to former President ARTURO FRONDIZI and pushed for
the development of ARGENTINA’S industries.
Central
Bank chief
FORMER
BANKER TO HEAD ARGENTINA'S CENTRAL BANK: FEDERICO STURZENEGGER, a
lawmaker, former banker and chief economist of the then private oil company
YPF, who studied at top USA school of MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology.
Minister
of Industry
FORMER
US TRAINED BANKER FRANCISCO CABRERA WILL BE INDUSTRY MINISTER. CABRERA
formerly worked for US tech company HEWLETT PACKARD, international bank HSBC
and other financial groups.
Minister
of Defense
JULIO
MARTINEZ IS CURRENTLY THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE DEFENSE COMMITTEE of the ARGENTINIAN
Chamber of Deputies, and has previously served as its chair. MARTINEZ has been
a strident critic of outgoing President CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER'S defense
policies. MARTINEZ will take charge of ARGENTINA'S defense policy at a
challenging time, as the ongoing delays to the country's program to replace its
retired DASSAULT MIRAGE III fleet leave it with little significant air-defense
capability.
GOVERNMENT
OF THE TECHNOCRATS, BY THE TECHNOCRATS, FOR THE TECHNOCRATS
It seems that if democratically
elected leaders do not heed to debt ridden economic models in order to satisfy
the markets, the IMF, WORLD BANK, HEDGE FUNDS and other financial institutions,
they are now, in effect, summarily dismissed, one way or the other. In the case
of ARGENTINA with the help of the corporate media and powerful international
financial institutions. Granted the outgoing administration had its flaws, but
the main reason the administration was under such heavy attack by neoliberal
entities was because they defied the classic economic model of the neoliberals
and managed to succeeded, which infuriated them and also posed a threat to
their own geopolitical agenda.
Background
Information: IMF and ARGENTINA
When ARGENTINA was the “Sunny
boy” of the IMF under president MENEM, who unquestionably followed IMF doctrine
of privatizing state assets......................................
CORPORATOCRACY......
ARGENTINA’S DEFAULT IN 2001, WHICH MANY ARGUE WAS CAUSED TO A LARGE EXTEND BY
THE IMF.......
ARGENTINA HAS REFUSED TO
SWALLOW THE IMF’S BELT-TIGHTENING RECIPES
The unsubtle message coming out
of the neoliberal quarters is that democratic governments which have failed to
tackle the economic crisis should be replaced with more reliable (and
controllable) technocratic governments.
This to some extend occurred in ARGENTINA.
With the help of the corporate media the economic situation was deliberately
presented in a bleaker picture than it actually was. Granted inflation is an
issue the new government has to solve, but at which price? The doctrines of Technocratic governments, controlled by corporations
and financial institutions usually have only one objective: painful austerity
and subsequent falling living standards. Technocracy will have no answers for
growing popular discontent.
Rule by technocrats will replace
rule by the people - with economically orthodox international bodies like the
IMF, WORLD BANK and SHADOW BANKING INSTITUTIONS working with technocrats now
heading up governments to implement tough austerity measures that have never
received public backing. With the exception of ARGENTINA!!!!!
DEMOCRACY
MUST NOT BE REGARDED AS MERELY AN OPTIONAL EXTRA WHEN SOLVING ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS.
The growing power of
international bodies (corporations) has steadily diminished democracy. To an
extent, the “imposition” of technocrats on ARGENTINA is the apotheosis of the
technocratic concept that runs through bodies such as the IMF and the WORLD
BANK as well as the Paris club and the Federal Reserve.
Government of the technocrats, by
the technocrats, and for the technocrats is hugely undesirable and, by its very
nature, bad for democratic legitimacy. It is not a long-term solution and
should not have been considered as a short-term one. Democracy must not be
regarded as merely an optional extra when solving economic problems.
If politicians do not bring their
people with them, they risk creating extreme alienation and discontent. If
politicians do not trust the people, why should the people trust their
politicians? When they are working to
solve the so-called economic crisis engulfing ARGENTINA, the countries new
leader must be very careful that he does not create a new crisis of political
legitimacy, which will have even more serious long-term consequences.
Background Information:
ARGENTINA, BARELY 30 YEARS OF
DEMOCRACY, A YOUNG NATION TRYING TO FIND ITS BEARING
ARGENTINE’S "INVISIBLE OPPOSITION",
(Now visible opposition 2015) still CONSISTING OF SELF - SEEKING ONE MAN SHOWS,
WHO USE CORPORATE MEDIA TO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENT
ARGENTINA AT A CROSSROAD
ARGENTINA,
A YOUNG DEMOCRACY STILL TRYING TO FIND ITS POLITICAL BEARING
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| One step forward, two back |
But then again maybe it’s in the
best of interest for ARGENTINA to experience 4 years of a center right non
Peronist Government in order to have a true comparison between the center left
Peronism model of the last 12 years, the MENEM Peronist area and now the
neoliberal (or as some say extreme right Manchester liberalism) area of MAURICIO
MACRI, thus the young country (33 years of democracy) will have gone through
all political models and therefor will be able to decide which of these
political models is best for the country. After all the Tango is an ARGENTINE
invention, one step forward, two steps back, depending on which side of the
political model you are on ……………….
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