BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY – NEOLIBERAL RECONQUERING OF LATIN AMERICA

BRAZIL AND THE NEOLIBERAL MEDIA – PROPAGANDA WAR

DILMA ROUSSEFF met with international media without BRAZILIAN giants like GLOBO, the country's largest media outlet, which has been accused of coup-mongering.

As BRAZIL spirals further into its worst political crisis seen in decades, President DILMA ROUSSEFF has tried to break the one-sided media narrative on the situation that’s been dominated by international press swooning over anti-government protests along with elite-backed local media accused of whipping up support for a coup.

Background Information:

MAURICIO MACRI AND THE CLARIN MEDIA GROUP

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Since 2003 the media giant CLARIN GROUP and LA NACION have been supporting MACRI and thus are the main and powerful “invisible opposition” which oppose the current government.Misinformation, lack of objectivity etc. both in CLARIN GROUPS TV News Channels as well as print media are daily occurrence in ARGENTINA. Mainstream Media are facing “credibility issues” around the globe and are engaged in an Information war, but in ARGENTINA the Info war has reached staggering proportions and thus cannot be seen as an impartial entity.

ROUSSEFF held a private media briefing with journalists from the NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, LA JORNADA, LE MONDE, EL PAIS, and DIE ZEIT. Meanwhile, she sent her chief of staff JAQUES WAGNER to meet with other international media in RIO DE JANEIRO. BRAZILIAN media were blocked from attending.

WAGNER said BRAZILIAN media coverage is “out of step” with the crisis with “obvious” efforts to campaign tirelessly for a particular end, LA REPUBLICA reported.

ROUSSEFF spoke about the fragility of BRAZIL’S relatively young democracy since the military dictatorship ended in 1985, saying that although the days of strong-arm coups are a thing of the past in LATIN AMERICA, BRAZIL is living an attempt at a “coup against democracy” through an impeachment process without legal footing.

FACING ‘COUP AGAINST DEMOCRACY,’ BRAZIL TURNS TO GLOBAL MEDIA

“We in BRAZIL have had military coups. In a democratic system, coups change their method,” ROUSSEFF said, according to an interview published in EL PAIS. “And impeachment without legal basis is a coup. It breaks the democratic order. That’s why it’s dangerous.”

Background Information: 

THE POWER OF LATIN AMERICAN MEDIA CONGLOMERATES

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CLARIN - SOWING THE SEEDS OF DOUBT AMONG ARGENTINE'S

THE OPPOSITION IS CLARIN -THE NEOLIBERAL CONGLOMERATE

And local media has played a role. In BRAZIL’S intensely concentrated media landscape, outlets like GLOBO, owned by and aligned with the country’s dictatorship-linked economic elite, have been criticized for “coup-mongering” and supporting the idea of military intervention.

Analyst SYLVIA MORETZSOHN, media professor at the Fluminense Federal University, argues that GLOBO has acted more like a political party than a media outlet by using its power to sway public opinion against the president. MORETZSOHN told BRASIL DE FATO that GLOBO has used the “noble cause” of combatting corruption worked to “create the conditions for a coup.”

With ROUSSEFF’S Workers’ Party, or PT, pushing progressive policies for over a decade since the election of her predecessor LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA in 2002, the country’s wealthy elite and right-wing political factions have grown frustrated by their inability to boot the PT from power at the ballot box.

Background Information: 

SAME STRATEGY IN ARGENTINA

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HOW CLARIN MEDIA GROUP,THE EQUIVALENT TO BRAZIL'S GLOBO MEDIA CONGLOMERATE, HELPED WIN MAURICIO MACRI ARGENTINE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

ROUSSEFF’S opponents have latched on to widespread corruption scandals and increasing probes into fraud as a justification to try to take down the government by trying to impeach the president or forcing her to resign.

The irony is that opposition politicians, including Vice President MICHEL TEMER, who would take over if ROUSSEFF stepped down and house speaker EDUARDO CUNHA, who is spearheading the impeachment attempt, are more deeply embroiled in corruption than ROUSSEFF or her PT.

“I recommend that you ask who benefits from this,” ROUSSEFF told EL PAIS. “Many of whom haven’t even appeared on the scene, but they are behind, at the bottom.”

Related topics on the silent coup in Latin America:

AN ORCHESTRATED SCANDAL

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COUP – MONGERING CLARIN MEDIA GROUP – COLLABORATOR OF THE FASCIST 1976 -83 MILITARY JUNTA

The coup-mongering CLARÍN media monopoly, whose owner was a collaborator of the fascist 1976-83 military junta, trumpeted in its Feb. 1 edition, based on some evidence found at his apartment that NISMAN had actually intended to issue an arrest warrant for FERNÁNDEZ.

VULTURE FUNDS ELLIOTT ASSOCIATES AND AURELIUS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ALSO TARGET BRAZIL

The same ELLIOTT ASSOCIATES and AURELIUS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT vulture funds that have preyed on ARGENTINA for years to overturn its sovereign debt restructuring and force it to its knees, are also targeting BRICS member BRAZIL for destabilization, using a corruption scandal at the giant state oil firm PETROBRAS to either force President DILMA ROUSSEFF into line, or oust her from office. ROUSSEFF was the head of PETROBRAS'S board of directors from 2003 to 2010, during the time an alleged bribery and corruption scandal at the company took place. The LONDON ECONOMIST has suggested she could be impeached.

ARGENTINA’S UNCERTAIN PROSPECTS - A COUNTRY RUN PER DECREE

ARGENTINA UNDER MACRI WILL SUCCUMB TO THE USA, THUS BEING THE NEW PUPPET OF THE US NEOCONSERVATIVES 

The real reason why the INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS and the corporate media denounce ARGENTINA

ARGENTINE'S CLASS STRUGGLE

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LATIN AMERICA AND THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS

  

LULA AND THE BRICS IN A FIGHT TO THE DEATH

By Pepe Escobar

"Information Clearing House" - "RT" - “BRICS” is the dirtiest of acronyms in the Beltway/Wall Street axis, and for a solid reason: the consolidation of the BRICS is the only organic, global-reach project with the potential to derail Exceptionalistan’s grip over the so-called “international community.”

GEOPOLITICAL PSYOPS

So it’s no surprise the three key BRICS powers have been under simultaneous attack, on many fronts, for some time now. On RUSSIA, it’s all about UKRAINE and SYRIA, the oil price war, the odd hostile raid over the ruble and the one-size-fits-all “RUSSIAN aggression” demonization. On CHINA, it’s all about “CHINESE aggression” in the SOUTHCHINA Sea and the (failed) raid over the SHANGHAI/SHENZHEN stock exchanges.

BRAZIL is the weakest link among these three key emerging powers. Already by the end of 2014 it was  clear the usual suspects would go no holds barred to destabilize the seventh largest global economy, aiming at good old regime change via a nasty cocktail of political gridlock (“ungovernability”) dragging the economy to the mud.

THREAT TO THE MONETARY MONOPOLY OF THE ANGLO SAXON ESTABLISHMENT 

 

Myriad reasons for the attack include the consolidation of the BRICS development bank; the BRICS’s concerted push for trading in their own currencies, bypassing the US dollar and aiming for a new global reserve currency to replace it; the construction of a major underwater fiber-optic telecom cable between BRAZIL and EUROPE, as well as the BRICS cable uniting SOUTH AMERICA to EAST ASIA – both bypassing US control.

And most of all, as usual, the holy of the holies – connected with Exceptionalistan’s burning desire to privatize BRAZIL’S immense natural wealth. Once again, it’s the oil.

GET LULA OR ELSE

WikiLeaks had already exposed how way back in 2009 Big Oil was active in BRAZIL, trying to modify – by all extortion means necessary – a law proposed by former president LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA, known as LULA, establishing profitable state-run PETROBRAS as the chief operator of all offshore blocks in the largest oil discovery of the young 21st century; the pre-salt deposits.

Lula not only kept Big Oil – especially EXXONMOBIL and CHEVRON – out of the picture but he also opened BRAZILIAN oil exploration to CHINA’S SINOPEC, as part of the BRAZIL-CHINA (BRICS within BRICS) strategic partnership.

Hell hath no fury like Exceptionalistan scorned. Like the Mob, it never forgives; LULA one day would have to pay, like PUTIN must pay for getting rid of US-friendly oligarchs.

The ball started rolling with EDWARD SNOWDEN revealing how the NSA was spying on BRAZILIAN President DILMA ROUSSEFF and top PETROBRAS officials. It continued with the fact that the BRAZILIAN Federal Police cooperate, receive training and/or are fed, closely, by both the FBI and CIA (mostly in the anti-terrorism sphere). And it went on via the two-year-old “Car Wash” investigation, which uncovered a vast corruption network involving players inside PETROBRAS, top BRAZILIAN construction companies and politicians from the ruling Workers’ Party.

The corruption network is real – with “proof,” usually oral, rarely backed up by documents, obtained mostly from artful dodgers-cum-serial liars who rat on someone as part of a plea bargain.

But for the “Car Wash” prosecutors, the real deal was, from the beginning, how to ensnare LULA.

ENTER THE TROPICAL ELLIOTT NESS

That brings us to the Hollywood spectacular enacted recently in SAO PAULO that sent shockwaves around the world. LULA “detained,” interrogated, humiliated in public. This is how I analyzed it in detail.

Plan A for the Hollywood-style blitz on LULA was an ambitious double down; not only to pave the way for the impeachment of President DILMA ROUSSEFF under a “guilty by association” stretch, but to “neutralize” LULA for good, preventing him from running for office again in 2018. There was no Plan B.

Predictably – as in many an FBI sting – the whole op backfired. LULA, in a political master class of a speech beamed live across the country, not only convincingly clad himself as the martyr of a conspiracy, but also re-energized his troops; even respectable conservatives vocally condemned the Hollywood show, from a minister in the Supreme Court to a former justice minister, as well as top economist BRESSER PEREIRA, one of the founders of the PSDB – the former social democrats turned Exceptionalistan-allied neoliberal enforcers and leaders of the right-wing opposition.

LATIN AMERICAN CLASS STRUGGLE – FROM BRAZIL TO ARGENTINA

BRESSER actually stated the BRAZILIAN Supreme Court should intervene on Car Wash to prevent abuses. LULA, for instance, had asked for the Supreme Court to detail which jurisprudence was relevant to investigate the accusations against him. Moreover, a lawyer on center stage during the Hollywood blitz said LULA answered all questions during the almost four-hour interrogation without blinking – questions he had already answered before.

Lawyer CELSO BANDEIRA DE MELLO, for his part, went straight to the point: the BRAZILIAN upper middle classes – which include a largely appalling lot wallowing in arrogance, ignorance and prejudice, whose dream is a condo in MIAMI - are fearful and terrified to death that LULA may run, and win again, in 2018.

Background Information:

THE ARGENTINE COMPARISON

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ARGENTINE'S CLASS STRUGGLE

ARTIFICIAL CRISIS

And that brings us to the judge and executioner of the whole drama: SERGIO MORO, Car Wash’s leading actor.

MORO’S academic career is hardly exciting. He’s not exactly a theorist heavyweight. He graduated as a lawyer in 1995 in a mediocre university in the middle of nowhere in one of BRAZIL’S southern states and made a few trips to the US, one of them financed by the State Department to learn about money laundering.

As I noted before, his chef-d’oeuvre is an article published way back in 2004 in an obscure magazine (in PORTUGUESE only, titled Considerations about Mani Pulite, CEJ magazine, issue number 26, July/September 2004), where he clearly extols “authoritarian subversion of juridical order to reach specific targets” and using the media to intoxicate the political atmosphere.

In a nutshell, judge MORO literally transposed the notorious 1990s Mani Pulite (“Clean Hands”) investigation from ITALY to BRAZIL – instrumentalizing to the hilt mainstream media and the judiciary to achieve a sort of “total delegitimization” of the political system. But not the whole political system; just the Workers’ Party, as if the comprador elites permeating BRAZIL’S rightwing spectrum were cherubic angels.

Background Information:  

MEDIA INFLUENCE IN LATIN AMERICA

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HOW THE CLARIN MEDIA GROUP HELPED WIN MAURICIO MACRI ARGENTINE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

WAR BY MEDIA AND THE TRIUMPH OF PROPAGANDA

So it comes as no surprise that MORO’S prime sidekick as Car Wash unrolled is the MARINHO family’s oligopoly, the GLOBO media empire

– a nest of reactionary, and not very clever, vipers who entertained very cozy relations with the BRAZILIAN military dictatorship from the 1960s to the 1980s. Not by accident, GLOBO was informed about LULA’S Hollywood-style “arrest” way before the fact, allowing it to invest in CNN-style blanket coverage.

MORO is viewed by legions in BRAZIL as an indigenous ELLIOT NESS. Other lawyers who have closely followed his work though hint he harbors the warped fantasy of a Workers’ Party as a mob leeching and plundering the state apparatus with the aim of delivering it, in pieces, to trade unions.

According to one of these lawyers who talked to BRAZILIAN independent media, a former president of the Lawyers’ Association in Rio, MORO is surrounded by a bunch of young fanatical prosecutors, with little juridical knowledge, and posing as the BRAZILIAN ANTONIO DI PIETRO (but without the solidity of the “Clean Hands” MILANESE prosecutor). Worse, MORO is oblivious that the implosion of the ITALIAN political system led to the rise of BERLUSCONI. In BRAZIL, it would certainly lead to the rise of a clown/village idiot supported by the GLOBO Empire, whose oligopolistic practices are quite Berlusconian.

THE DIGITAL PINOCHETS

A case can be made that the Hollywood blitz on LULA holds a direct parallel to the first attempt at a coup d’etat in CHILE in 1973, which tested the waters in terms of popular response before the real deal. In the BRAZILIAN remix, assorted GLOBO media maggots pose as digital PINOCHETS. At least many a street in SAO PAULO now bears graffiti to the effect of “Military coup – Never again.”

WHITE COUP INSTEAD OF MILITARY

Yes, because this is all about a white coup – in the form of a ROUSSEFF impeachment and sending LULA to the gallows. But old (military) habits die hard; GLOBO media maggots are now extolling the Army to take to the streets to “neutralize” popular militias. And this is just the beginning. Right-wingers are getting ready for a national mobilization, calling for – what else – ROUSSEFF’S impeachment.

Car Wash’s merit is to investigate corruption, collusion and traffic of influence in abysmally corrupt BRAZIL. But everyone, every political faction, should be investigated – including those representing BRAZILIAN comprador elites. That’s not the case. Because the political project allied with Car Wash couldn’t care less about “justice”; the only thing that matters is to perpetuate a vicious political crisis as a means to drag the seventh largest economy in the world into the mud and reach the Holy Grail: a white coup, or good ol’ regime change. But 2016 is not 1973, and the whole world by now knows who’s a sucker for regime change.

CORPORATOCRACY – THE ARGENTINE WAY

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

VULTURE CAPITALISTS ARE THE REAL WINNERS OF ARGENTINA’S ELECTIONS

CLARÍN, MACRI AND VULTUREFUNDS - ELLIOTT MANAGEMENT

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS VERSUSARGENTINA

THE GEOPOLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMS

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/argentina-geopolitics-of-international.html    

ELLIOT CAPITAL HEDGE FUNDS, A CLIENT AND SHAREHOLDER OF FITCH RATING AGENCY?

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/02/argentinean-politics-under-claw-of.html    

US COURT RULING ON ARGENTINE BOND DEFAULT- THE PARIS CLUB, USA AGRICULTURE COMPANIES, AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SPECULATORS “GRAB” FOR ARGENTINA

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/money-makes-world-go-round-and-politics.html  

MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND – AND LOTS OF MONEY IS AT STAKE IN ARGENTINA

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com/2011/07/money-makes-world-go-round-and-politics.html    

RATING AGENCIES, THE FEDERAL RESERVE, THE PARIS CLUB, THE IMF, brokers and speculator

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com/2011/07/global-financial-monopoly-game-part-2.html

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

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/imf-doctrines-and-its-geopolitical.html  

WALL STREET ANIMOSITY AGAINST ARGENTINA

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/wall-street-animosity-against-argentina.html  

LATAM NOT ADHERING TO VULTURE FINANCE SYSTEM DICTATED BY IMF, WORLD BANK AND CORPORATIONS

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com/2012/01/latam-economic-downgrading-tactics-by.html  

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

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/argentine-shale-gas-production-could.html

US COMPANY CHEVRON REGAINS FOOTHOLD IN ARGENTINA’S OIL SECTOR

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/argentines-stunning-policy-turnaround.html

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......................................

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com/2012/04/argentina-and-repsol.html    

CORPORATOCRACY...... ARGENTINA’S DEFAULT IN 2001, WHICH MANY ARGUE WAS CAUSED TO A LARGE EXTEND BY THE IMF.......

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com/2011/10/corporatocracy.html  

ARGENTINA HAS REFUSED TO SWALLOW THE IMF’S BELT-TIGHTENING RECIPES

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/argentina-and-paris-club.html    

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

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/argentine-evolution.html

 ARGENTINE’S "INVISIBLE OPPOSITION", (Now visible opposition 2015) still CONSISTING OF SELF - SEEKING ONE MAN SHOWS, WHO USE CORPORATE MEDIA TO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENT

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/04/argentina-country-without-visible.html  

ARGENTINA AT A CROSSROAD

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/argentina-at-crossroad.html

ARGENTINA, A YOUNG DEMOCRACY STILL TRYING TO FIND ITS POLITICAL BEARING

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 ……………….