ARGENTINA
– a new dictator is born. Actually no, he has just been elected. – Or, was he?
– It appears like the newly elected MAURICIO MACRI is the most fascist and
dictatorial President since the VIDELA military era.
Unlike VIDELA, MACRI hasn’t
murdered people (yet); not by traditional weapons, but may do so by economic
strangulation – the weapon of choice of neoliberalism.
At
a young age, MACRI, now a multi-billionaire has
had dealings with DONALD TRUMP, the Republican front runner for the US
Presidency. That, of course, doesn’t make him a ‘bad guy’. But it does
characterize him as someone who would rather turn favors to the rich than to
the needy. That should rather be telling for the ARGENTINIANS, who elected him
– or did they?
REPRESSION BACK ON TRACK
Since
day one, MAURICIO MACRI has
started repressive socio-economic measures – when he let the peso float on the
day of his inauguration on 10 December 2015. It devalued by about 50%, then
recovered somewhat. The bottom line is, though, the people at large will suffer
purchasing power losses, so that dollar investments may flood the country – as
he says and hopes – to privatize once more ARGENTINA’S economy to foreign
investors. It’s all so reminiscent of the MENEM years. – And the ARGENTINIANS
elected him – did they really?
At
the time of writing this article at least 12,000 state employees in BUENOS
AIRES were dismissed, starting the New Year with unemployment – no individual
warnings; the contracts of another 62,000 government employees country-wide since
then have been examined – and were since terminated. Many of them may have voted for him — really?
Millions of people took to the streets
throughout the plazas of the major cities in ARGENTINA recently, demanding
social justice, like freedom of expression and the right of work – and for most
the respect for human rights – and defending democracy over the dictatorial
rule of a right wing demagogue.
What
justice? – Macri by decree decided that Supreme Court judges he
appointed did not need the Senate’s approval, as the country’s Constitution prescribes.
Within the first 72 hours of MACRI’S ascent to power, he issued 29 Presidential
Decrees, so as to impose his program without parliamentary approval. And that’s
the way he will rule, at least the first 100 days; a neo-fascist dictator par
excellence.
MACRI’S
other upsetting controversy was –the removal of the Presidential painting of
President KIRCHNER from the walls of the Casa Rosada, the Presidential Mansion.
And why are ARGENTINIANS so upset and
even outraged? – After all MACRI told them in advance what he would do when
becoming President, things so outrageous, nobody probably believed him. Not
unlike most Presidents who forget their campaign promises once elected – MACRI actually
carries them through – and he has just started. There is a long list of
measures he intends to take – all of them against the well-being of the
majority of the people, but in favour of Big Business, in favour of his
northern allies in WASHINGTON, those who helped him to power.
THE MEASURES MACRI ‘PROMISED’ HE WOULD
CARRY OUT INCLUDE:
Negotiate
with the Vulture Funds, as well as renegotiate ARGENTINA’S debt with the IMF.
This is reopening a bloody scar, as the KIRCHNER Governments had successfully
negotiated and agreed with 97% of the creditors to debt payments on average of
about 25 cents to the dollar. Payments are being made on schedule.
Among
the 3% who didn’t agree were the Vulture Funds, managed by the vulture fund
billionaire PAUL SINGER. SINGER wants it all.
Having
bought ARGENTINA’S debt on the cheap – very cheap – he followed ARGENTINA’S
last fifteen years of recovery and accumulation of reserves and ‘bought’ a NEW
YORK judge to intervene in ARGENTINA’S sovereign affairs, ordering THE SOUTH
AMERICAN country to pay Mr. vulture SINGER in full.
This
aberration was overruled by last year’s UN General Assembly adopting overwhelmingly
a new global framework for sovereign debt restructuring, in favour of nations’
rights to seek protection from minority creditors, such as the US SINGER hedge funds, which
refuse to go along with the majority in mutually agreed debt restructurings. Despite
this ruling, MACRI intends to renegotiate and possibly give away some of the
people’s hard-earned reserves to greedy US vulture funds. – Bravo! – And ARGENTINIANS
elected him – hard to believe; did they really?
Substantially
increasing gas and electricity tariffs – already started.
Repeal
the Memorandum of Agreement with IRAN regarding the investigation and the Truth
Commission in the case of AMIA; the car bomb attack on the Asosiacion Mutual
Iraelita Argentina which caused the death of 85 people in July 1994. Prosecutor NIESMAN, in
charge of the investigation appeared dead in his apartment a few hours before
he was to disclose his findings in an ARGENTINE Court. According to Wikileaks the investigation was directed by WASHINGTON.
Closing
down Public TV Stations 6, 7 and 8 which had the tendency to be critical of
Government politics.
Removing
the Attorney General, whose function according to the Constitution is sustained
as long as it is carried out according to the norms of the law – which
according to all records it is. MACRI wants to replace her by one of his
cronies.
Restructuring
the Central Bank – replacing the current President, whom MACRI reproaches of
being a KIRCHNERITE – and replacing him with one of his buddies; and this
despite the fact that the Charter of the Central Bank allows removal of its
President only for serious professional or ethical infractions – none of which
is the case with the current President of the Central Bank.
ARGENTINE'S CLASS STRUGGLE
These
are just a few of the measures he announced – and people either didn’t listen,
or didn’t believe him. ARGENTINIANS voted for MAURICIO MACRI –
or did they? – With a slim margin of about 3% over his center-left opponent, DANIEL
SCIOLI; a slim margin but enough not
to justify a recount. Why would the majority of people vote for a
candidate who told them in so many words that he would undo what the previous KIRCHNER
Governments have done for them?
ARE ARGENTINES MASOCHISTS?
Then
there are the so-called progressive ARGENTINIAN economists who argue about an
ardent class struggle between the entrepreneurs who have been short-changed
during the KIRCHNER years and the average working citizen. What a baloney! –
What class struggle – when 80% of the people benefitted from the KIRCHNERS’
social programs and highly distributive GDP growth? – Would they vote as
masochists for the neoliberal, neo-colonial multi-billionaire MAURICIO MACRI –
who said he would undo many of these social gains?
ELECTION COUP – TARGET LATIN AMERICA
This
would indeed be strange. Just open your eyes and the crimes of WASHINGTON’S
secret hand will be revealed; the ‘invisible’ hand which once again – and again
– has carried out what ARGENTINA journalist ESTELA CALLONI calls an ‘election
coup’.
Comment by Geopolitical Analysis
and Monitoring :
ARGENTINES elections were
won because the largest ARGENTINE Media Conglobate, the CLARIN Group (The group
is associated with GOLDMAN SACHS) in
association with the “WASHINGTON CONSENSUS” – Financial Institutions and
leading Hedge Funds owner PAUL SINGER funded
MACRI’S presidential campaign in order to push through their eco – political
agenda in ARGENTINA.
Background Information: MACRI’S CONNECTION TO THE CLARIN GROUP
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Not
to forget the ones in EASTERN EUROPE and CENTRAL ASIA, called ‘Color
Revolutions’, of which the most notorious one, the fascist coup in UKRAINE, has
already left tens of thousands dead and denigrated millions into homelessness
and hapless refugees – or in the MIDDLE EAST and NORTH AFRICA – the infamous
‘Arab Springs’ – not to forget, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, LIBYA, SYRIA, SOMALIA, YEMEN
– all of them causing millions of deaths and social victims of wars of
injustice, so-called ‘refugees’; many of the conflicts turning into endless
wars against western-invented and western fabricated and spread ‘terror’.
Only time will tell what’s in store for
ARGENTINA and the rest of what we proudly called the ‘free’ LATIN AMERICA – now
gradually turning into what it was for most of the 20th Century – WASHINGTON’S Backyard.
Adapted
by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring from the article originally written by
Peter Koenig via Information Clearing House
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