ARGENTINA AND ITS NOTORIOUS ILLNESS - CORRUPTION

THE DOWNFALL OF ARGENTINA - 

CORRUPTION

By Carlos Aznárez

Every newspaper in ARGENTINA is reporting on facts that seem to have no connection with each other but, actually, are part of the same scheme. On the one hand, a President, in this case MAURICIO MACRI, affirms he will repatriate 18 million pesos from the BAHAMAS (one million 304 thousand dollars), to invest it in local bonds that his own administration will issue. This initiative was announced as the President’s “great gesture” — the same President who was denounced in the PANAMA Papers—, since he is showing everyone he has confidence in the country’s’ new era, and it will also be accompanied by a tax amnesty bill that must first be approved in the National Congress.

IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD THE HEAD OF STATE WOULD BE INDICTED – NOT SO IN ARGENTINA

This situation, which in any other part of the world that adheres to the basic foundations of legality and where there are at least a little ethics in the government’s actions, would be considered a crime (worsened due to the fact that the people involved are civil servants).

But under MACRI’S rule this has become an honest gesture while receiving the applauses of the hegemonic media, the same media that constantly attacks VENEZUELA and doesn’t hesitate to praise the Presidential decision. Businessmen welcomed the measure for considering it “healthy” and, at the same time, because it opens the possibility of laundering dirty money, which comes mostly from kickbacks or other “benefits” provided by businesses that usually gestate at the high levels of power.

But, of course, MACRI is not the only one. Some officials of his cabinet are following in his steps. CARLOS MELCONIÁN, President of the National Bank, who has made clear that he is partial to these practices as well (1). He confessed, without fear or shame: “As many ARGENTINES, I have money stashed abroad. Of course, I will bring some of it back”, and he will repatriate the rest as soon as investors “regain confidence” in the local economy. (In six month of ruling the new administration was unable to curb in inflation which stands at a staggering 48 %!)

NO FAITH IN THE COUNTRY AND ITS POLITICAL SYSTEM

“Then, I will bring the money”, he shamelessly concluded. It seems to be a joke but in fact, it’s true: if the President of the main Bank in ARGENTINA has no certainty on the effects of his own administration, what can he ask of the 40 million ARGENTINE people, who are suffering layoffs, increments in services fees, hunger and, as in the 90s, are seeking a way out of the hopelessness of the situation.

This is what “MACRISMO” represents: the right-wing, the neoliberal model and the foreign policy of the US on the continent. The great problem is that, on the other side of the ring, things are not better. Or, in worlds of a Peronist leader: “You suck”. Every illegal activity that comes to light operates in service of a sector that wants to hide other illegal activities, and so on. Now, we could state once again: “they are all thieves”.

As happened in BRAZIL with some of the higher officials of the Workers’ Party, it’s evident that here too the former cabinet has also had some undesirable characters who didn’t hesitate to steal, become corrupted and promote that attitude with impunity. If the treasurer of the Workers’ Party, JOACO VACCARI (imprisoned) pocketed 70 million dollars of bribes and DILMA’S publicist, JOAO SANTANA (also imprisoned) payed himself extra wages of various million dollars as a price for the corruption scheme of Petrobras, then here some people have not fallen behind in terms of high-level corruption.

THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IS THE MOST CORRUPTED INDUSTRY  IN THE WORLD

The recent example of former Secretary of Public Works, JOSÉ LÓPEZ, throwing bags full of money up the walls of a Convent after having unearthed them from another hiding place when he was notified that he was being persecuted. Nine million dollars seem to be an exaggerated amount of money for a saver, but this is actually only a small portion of the actual number of pesos, dollars, euros, etc. that he and other officials have been receiving in the past years as investments for public work.

SHARE OF THE CAKE – PLUNDER OF THE COUNTRY CONTINUES…..

In fact, it was well-known that on both the national and local level, some officials have asked for bribes of up to 60% to carry out projects. Another Secretary, from Transportation, in the past government called RICARDO JAIME had been caught in a similar transaction and is now imprisoned with several judicial cases against him. A long list of MACRISTAS officials are charged with similar “achievements”, but are not imprisoned because it is time for them to rule and the roles have changed now.

 “Disgust” is the proper world but it doesn’t seem to be enough to express the anger generated by this situation, in which both the progressive and neoliberal agents are unified in the plan to plunder the country, generating more hopelessness in new generations, who feel embarrassed when looking at these politicians of the bourgeois democracies as they build a system of impunity to continue earning dirty money.

What happened with JOSÉ LÓPEZ is not a coincidence but part of a scheme in which corruption is naturalized in a sector that allegedly raised the “national and popular” flags, but who in fact (not all of them) wanted to fill their pockets with the brutality of the capitalist thinking. As they collected more and more money in their bags or off-shore bank accounts, the more powerful they felt when “doing politics”. LOPEZ is JULIO DE VIDO’S man. Both of them were part of the permanent staff of the KIRCHNER era. The lack of utterance makes us wonder. And the main explanation to this is not related to loyalty or efficiency but to operative groups in administrations that were not always fully legal. What happened this time can’t be allocated to media campaigns nor conspiracies, but to those who raised flags that didn’t belong to them, soiled with the blood of real men and women of the country, and now tainted with dirty money.

CAN’T HIDE DIRTY MONEY? – SIMPLY IMPLEMENT A TAX AMNESTY

MACRI and his friends can’t hide their illegal activities and that’s why they are trying to approve the tax amnesty —with help of forces from the opposition who vote together in the National Parliament and the BUENOS AIRES legislature— just like LÓPEZ, JAIME and others are now being chased by their same colleagues, with different political colors but actually in a similar situation, and all with the same aim of maintaining the system. This is what we should repudiate and fight, in this complex scenario, which looks a lot like BRAZIL—. These are, with little differences, the facilities with which the regional right operates comfortably in each country. 

Regardless of this situation, the common people (no matter their ideology), the working class, do not earn enough to feed their own families, those who study and then have no place to work in, those who fight against layoffs and the increase in services’ rates, those who take up the fight of militants from the past, who believe that politics have nothing to do with stealing for them. Women and men that have not given up on their dreams, who hope ARGENTINA will someday be freed and will end the era of white-collar criminals

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.”

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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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THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICAL VIEW ON ARGENTINE'S NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT MACRI

What Obama Should Know About Macri’s Argentina

By GASTÓN CHILLIER and ERNESTO SEMÁNMARCH 23, 2016

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During his trip to Argentina this week, President Obama is unlikely to visit Milagro Sala. A prominent social activist in the northwestern province of Jujuy, Ms. Sala was arrested in January at the behest of Gov. Gerardo Morales, a political ally of the country’s new president, Mauricio Macri.

There has been international outrage over her detention; Pope Francis, the United Nations and Amnesty International have expressed concern. Not the White House: When announcing Mr. Obama’s visit, it thanked Mr. Macri for “his contributions to the defense of human rights in the region.”

Mr. Obama’s historic trip to Cuba has all the pageantry of a farewell to the Cold War in Latin America. His visit to Havana will serve as a symbolic climax in the normalization of American relations with Cuba’s Communist government. But his excursion to Argentina has a very different resonance.

Shortly before Mr. Obama’s arrival in Buenos Aires, his administration announced the declassification of United States government documents relating to Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship. Yet the visit is not about the current state of human rights, but about free trade and hemispheric security.

An acknowledgment of the malign role the United States played in the early years of the dictatorship is welcome, if overdue. But to ignore the red flags on human rights raised by the recent actions of Argentina’s new ruling party is a worrying reminder of that legacy. For Mr. Macri, Mr. Obama’s visit is already an endorsement.

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Protesters last month demanded the release of the prominent social activist Milagro Sala, who was arrested in January. CreditNatacha Pisarenko/Associated Press

The arrest of Ms. Sala illustrates the Argentine government’s new hard-line approach. Her organization played an important role in providing for socially excluded groupsoffering them housing, jobs and education. Ms. Sala was detained for leading a protest of cooperative workers, the unemployed and indigenous people in one of the country’s poorest provinces. Later, she was accused of embezzling public funds. That judicial investigation must run its course, but due process demands that she should not be imprisoned in the meantime.

This arbitrary detention comes amid a rash of measures taken by the Macri administration that have weakened the rule of law on the pretext of security, economic freedom and the war on drugs. In January, within weeks of taking office, Mr. Macri declared an emergency that allowed military forces to shoot down unidentified planes suspected of drug trafficking.

In effect, the president had decreed a de facto death penalty without trial. This policy has been criticized as an example of the “narcotización” of public safety. It is counter to the core principles of Argentina’s post-dictatorship reforms that prohibit military intervention in domestic security.

Soon after Mr. Macri’s inauguration, the highest court in the capital, Buenos Aires, ruled that police officers could demand identification from citizens there without probable cause, a ruling that gives a green light to harassment based on prejudice. In an equally troubling move, the federal government recently unveiled a new protocol for policing protests that gives the authorities more power to put down and criminalize demonstrations; this in a country where people value the right of free assembly and often take to the streets to fight for their rights.

Argentina’s economic and political meltdown in 2001 conclusively demonstrated that the free market approach of the 1990s had not made life better for ordinary people. Yet, Mr. Macri and his team are reviving failed policies of the past. With commodity prices in decline, they want to attract foreign investment by cutting their way to competitiveness: reducing public spending and shrinking government.

At the same time, the administration has lifted controls on currency exchange, boosting inflation. Some analysts predict that it will exceed the official target for 2016 of 20 to 25 percent.

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Despite campaign vows to strengthen democratic institutions, President Macri is governing in the other direction. In December, he tried to appoint two new Supreme Court justices by fiat, bypassing Senate approval. Facing an outcry, the president backpedaled and sentthe nominations to the Senate.

In another highhanded move, Mr. Macri used executive orders to alter a cornerstone of media law that, while poorly enforced by the previous administration, had amplified freedom of expression by bolstering anti-monopoly regulations. Such a presidential intervention would be appalling in any circumstances, but in the context of Argentina’s political polarization and other repressive measures is cause for alarm.

The risk of militarizing public order, the weakening of institutional restraints on executive power, the criminalization of protest and a fixation on promoting free-market orthodoxies — none of this has good echoes in Latin America. The United States supported many of the region’s dictators in the 1970s and ’80s so that they would serve as local guarantors of free trade and security against Communism.

Only after the inauguration in 1977 of President Jimmy Carter did the United States try to curb the continent’s repressive forces. Important as this was, it could not compensate for the decades when the United States, while claiming to defend democracy, had aided Latin America’s dictators.

Mr. Obama surely wants to put that past behind him. But during his administration, the United States has encouraged the destabilization of democracy in Honduras and Haiti, presumably in hopes that more favorable commercial partners or allies in the war on drugs would take over.

The United States’ decision to declassify more documents relating to Argentina’s dictatorship is an important step that could enable further judicial investigations of crimes against humanity. But Mr. Obama should not now endorse state violence and ideological bigotry as acceptable side effects of the United States’ larger goals of promoting free markets and security cooperation.

ARGENTINA - ON THE ROAD TO THE BAD OLD DAYS

A presidential visit to Argentina that neglects to notice how Mr. Macri’s government is undermining human rights and democratic institutions — and instead pours empty praise on his policies — will rightly be read as a return to the bad old days.

Gastón Chillier is the executive director of the Center for Legal and Social Studies in Buenos Aires. Ernesto Semán is a history professor at the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies.

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THE ARGENTINE ELECTION DILEMMA

ARGENTINA REVISITED –THREE MONTH ON

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

Increasing taxes for the lowest income earners ‘in the name of justice’.

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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MAIN STREAM MEDIA INFLUENCE INARGENTINA

MAURICIO MACRI AND THE CLARIN GROUP

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