BOLIVIA AND CHILE

El Tatio is a geyser field located within the Andes Mountains of Chile,
just west of the Bolivian border. (Photo: Christian Espinosa)

BOLIVIA WRESTLES CHILE FOR OCEAN ACCESS

During the recent Summit of the AMERICAS in PANAMA, an age-old debate was revived between one of SOUTH AMERICA'S poorest and one of its most prosperous nations. As leaders touted LATIN AMERICA as an increasingly war-free zone, BOLIVIA still battles with neighboring CHILE over land lost in a past war.

"In the year 1879, [BOLIVIA] was invaded, taking away its Pacific Ocean access," BOLIVIAN President EVO MORALES stated during a press conference, "I hope that this injustice will be resolved." Hours later, CHILEAN Foreign Minister HERALDO MUÑOZ replied, "I regret having to begin my statement refuting. But the Summit of the AMERICAS is not for bilateral issues but to discuss prosperity, equity and our common future." BOLIVIANS appears to find it difficult to embrace this common future when they believe they have been suppressed.

BOLIVIA is one of SOUTH AMERICA'S two landlocked countries. It is also one of its most impoverished. Ever since the War of the Pacific 136 years ago, it has partially blamed CHILE for both.

Background Information:

CHILE'S NEVER-ENDING TERRITORIAL CLAIMS

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/malvinas-30-years-on_30.html

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_War_of_the_Pacific.en.svg

PAST GOVERNING THE PRESENT

After defeat by CHILE'S military invasion, BOLIVIA lost 10 percent of its territory. This included 420 miles of PACIFIC OCEAN coastline and 120,000 square kilometers of land. Then in 1904, a controversial bilateral agreement legitimized amiable relations and new borders. Yet, save for a brief spell in the 1970s, BOLIVIAN and CHILEAN affairs have continued to be strained. While CHILE substantiates that what is done is done, in 2013 President MORALES went so far as to take the ocean access dispute to the International Court of Justice. CHILE has challenged this lawsuit, and in July 2014 presented documents supporting the "incompetence" of the foreign court's ability to handle the local issue. The two countries will again present claims in due course.

The land in question is coastal but generally a desert and mountainous region. It is worth noting that this debate supersedes sea trade and port rights, which CHILE has offered BOLIVIA to use freely but without sovereignty. The CHILEAN government has hence called its neighbor's claim of being "landlocked" irrelevant. But is BOLIVIA'S argument "irrelevant" when it is fighting for what is beneath the land, too?

AN AGE-OLD CONQUEST – NATURAL RESOURCES

For years, CHILE has been rated SOUTH AMERICA'S most economically successful and stable country, having recovered well from the dictatorship of AUGUSTO PINOCHET in the 70s and 80s. But recognizing CHILE as a desirable country dates centuries before that, riding much on the coattails of its vast natural resources.

"CHILE has exported BOLIVIAN copper … worth $25 million in a single year. Imagine if that territory had continued to be held by BOLIVIA," said BOLIVIAN Vice President ÁLVARO GARCÍA LINERA. "Add that up over 100 years and look at how much money they have stolen. If [the CHILEAN economy] is good, it is because of our copper, our minerals." GARCÍA LINERA also claimed that if that amount added up to natural gas exports, modern BOLIVIA would be a "continental power."

Today, precious metal mining accounts for at minimum 40 percent of CHILE'S economy and, according to the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, produces 10 percent of the world's copper. In fact, partially because of this mining potency, it received U.S. and U.K. funding to win the War of the Pacific. Is it pure coincidence that major mining corporations from these same Western nations continue to hold interests in that area as Spanish conquistadors had done centuries ago? BOLIVIA does not think so.

Fifty-three percent of the mining from which CHILE has prospered originates in its far-north territories, including the ANTOFAGASTA region—land taken from BOLIVIA. Consequentially, the landlocked republic considers economic damages as substantial, as this area hosts one of the ANDES' richest deposits of copper—the mainstay of CHILE'S powerful market.

In addition, in diverting the LAUCA River, which originates in CHILE and dies in BOLIVIA, CHILEAN companies also privatize the waters of those springs. Whether it be precious metals or water, neither international companies nor the CHILEAN government have paid anything to BOLIVIA in more than a century.

CHILE TALKS BACK

CHILE, however, argues that there is nothing due. In brief, not only did it offer BOLIVIA ocean access through CHILEAN ports—which BOLIVIA views as insufficient partially because the permit denies mining rights—but also in the 1904 agreement, the two nations legally established a mutual accord of territory rights. According to the CHILEAN Foreign Ministry, BOLIVIA'S fight to regain the land lost long ago is an outdated argument that modern nations should drop. Furthermore, four ex-presidents and major businessmen—PATRICIO AYLWIN, RICARDO LAGOS, EDUARDO FREI RUIZ-TAGLE and SEBASTIAN PIÑERA—have all met with incumbent MICHELLE BACHELET. They advise her not to recognize MORALES' claims and to ignore THE HAGUE, the UNITED NATIONS' principal judicial organ, as this organization was established almost four decades after this dispute was technically settled.

Yet MORALES still emphasizes the mining argument, proclaiming, "BOLIVIA wants coastal territory before its natural resources are exhausted by transnational corporations." CHILE has yet to directly respond. The most recent productive recognition of this concern is the "13-point plan" between Presidents BACHELET and MORALES, which has been under discussion since 2006. Fashioned to resolve mutual differences, the agreement remains theoretical, being increasingly abandoned as relations continue to strain.

The BOLIVIAN head of state has added that "no state should be deprived of access to the sea," and since his nation "knows what it is to not have access to the sea," the president has ensured that a BOLIVIAN sea would be open to all peoples, eliminating "reason to grow armies."

Whether this statement comes in defense or offense, it brings us back to a rule that has shaped much of LATIN AMERICAN history. Sovereignty is rarely just ideological or humanitarian. Riches are at its roots.

By Ailana Navarez

ARGENTINA 2015

On Saturday, 18 January 2014 we wrote: 

ARGENTINA

THE TWO WORLDS OF 

BUENOS AIRES: MACRI'S LEGACY OF 

INEQUALITY

Inequality is nothing new in Latin America; the region has long occupied the unenviable position of being considered the most unequal area in the world. However, the human face of inequality is nowhere more apparent than in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Buenos Aires is a study in contrasts: the splendid Libertador Street, punctuated with  art museums, luxury malls, and expensive apartments, stands at points directly across the train tracks from the improvised housing of the villas miserias, or shantytowns. Below Rivadavia Street, as the noted Argentine novelist Jorge Luis Borges put it,  “the South begins,” a land of impoverished suburbs and slums.

Buenos Aires is a maze of overlapping jurisdictions. 

The metro area numbers some 13 million people, nearly 40 percent of the country’s population, but the city’s mayor, Mauricio Macri, presides over a jurisdiction which includes just  3 million residents. The problem has proven too much for Macri, who has demonstrated indifference towards the task of develop a working relationship with either provincial or national governments. Moreover, Macri and his Propuesta Republicana Party (Republican Proposal, PRO) seem solely interested in projects that benefit the affluent, clearly neglecting the issues of poverty alleviation, environmental cleanup, and improvement of substandard housing. The people of Buenos Aires deserve better. Only with immediate and decisive action can  improvement come for the lived experience of the city’s poor.

Background Information: 

ARGENTINE’S "INVISIBLE OPPOSITION", CONSISTING OF SELF - SEEKING ONE MAN SHOWS, MANIPULATED BY LOCAL MEDIA GIANT TO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENT

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

MEDIA BIAS IN ARGENTINA

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/03/food-for-thought.html

MAIN STREAM MEDIA INFLUENCE IN ARGENTINA

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2011/10/impartiality.html

Figure 1: Average incomes in Districts of Buenos Aires (Monthly, in Argentine Pesos, with darker colors representing higher incomes)
Source: Buenos Aires City Government – http://www.ssplan.buenosaires.gov.ar/MODELO%20TERRITORIAL/WEB/modelo_territorial.html

The lines of inequality are starkly delineated in the city,  following the North (rich) and South (poor) gradient (see Figure 1). Levels of income disparity in Buenos Aires have grown steadily, along with a 35 percent jump in poverty in the Greater Buenos Aires area, over a 16 year period. Poverty rates rose from 12.7 percent in 1986 to 49.7 percent of the population in 2002, just after Argentina’s economic crisis, according to government statistics. U.N. Habitat estimated the city’s Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality with 0 being total equality, everyone with the same income, and 1.0 being perfect inequality, one person has all the income, at .52 in 2005. This measure, compared to Quito’s .49 and London’s .34, places Buenos Aires  in the category  “among the most unequal in the world” according to the United Nations. The wealth of the highest decile of the population of the city is equal to 28.3 times that of the poorest. Another way of capturing this inequality is to look at city  real estate prices. The cost of one square meter of land in a rich neighborhood is 116 percent higher than a meter in a poor one.  As many as 10 percent of the city’s residents live in informal and improvised housing, lack access to public services, and live in crime-riddled communities. These problems reflect dire circumstances, but the city’s government has many of the necessary tools to successfully address them.

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

Overlapping Jurisdictions

Buenos Aires has been an autonomous region since 1996, when the national government gave up its control over the appointment of the city’s mayor. Today the Buenos Aires mayor is regarded as the third most important political position in the country, after the president and the governor of Buenos Aires province. Macri, scion of a wealthy family and former manager of the popular Boca Juniors soccer club, took office in 2007 after an effective electoral campaign that portrayed him as “business friendly”. The position of mayor is a powerful one, as shown by Figure 2, affording Macri a great deal of independence.

Figure 2: From C40 Cities. Illustrates Macri’s government’s power
Source: C40 Cities – Climate Leadership Group – http://c40.org/c40cities/buenos-aires

Macri is also  the country’s main opposition leader, and this status has figured into his drive to keep the city of Buenos Aires fiercely autonomous. 

Macri’s policies have moved closer and closer to practices of “city diplomacy,” in which cities, as opposed to central governments, engage in international diplomacy. Scholar Roger Van der Plujim notes that “[i]n instances where local interests are very much represented by central governments, the perceived need by cities to engage in city diplomacy is more limited than in those instances where local interests are less represented.” Essentially, if city leaders do not feel that their interests are represented at the national level, they increasingly have the power and inclination to seek support internationally. On September 17, at an address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., Carlos Pirovano, Economic Development Advisor to Mayor Macri, noted that his administration does not even hold meetings with the country’s central government, lead by Christina Fernández de Kirchner, nor with the provincial authorities of Governor Daniel Scioli. Clearly, the local interests of Buenos Aires are not represented at the national level. Following the framework of Van der Plujim, city diplomacy would then become much more important for Buenos Aires, which must look beyond the national government for diplomatic support. Pirovano’s visit to the United States indicates that Macri’s city government has begun to do just that.

Background Information: 

ARGENTINA COULD RELAPSE INTO RECESSION BY 2014

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-future-of-argentina.html

These steps are allowing the Buenos Aires city government to set its own terms without having to negotiate with a complicated set of national actors. Macri has the institutional and diplomatic power as mayor to enact sweeping changes on addressing poverty issues in the city. However, he has made neither just nor efficient use of the power at his disposal, and has failed to address the  problems the city faces.

Fundamentally, Macri has spent his time and the city government’s funds on urban planning projects that benefit already well-to-do Argentines. As William Kinney noted in his piece, “COHA Spotlights CSIS Roundtable Discussion with Macri’s Economic Advisor” for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Macri’s strategy for urban development has revolved around designating different “districts” within the city for a certain categories of economic activity. The artistic neighborhood of Palermo, for instance, was designated as a “film district,” with tax and infrastructure incentives for further development of the film industry. Carlos Pirovano highlighted the importance of these initiatives, especially in the southern neighborhood of Parque Patricios, which was designated as a “technology district.” This neighborhood, which is one of the city’s poorest, has seen a 200 hectare development of office buildings and the growth of technology sectors, with 158 new businesses moving into the zone.  Pirovano also noted that increased security in Parque Patricios had led to reduced use of “paco” (crack cocaine) in the area.

While these are worthy enough projects, the jobs created are largely destined for well-educated middle and upper-class Argentines, not those who live in the neighborhood, severely limiting any poverty-alleviation impact from these measures. Indeed, many of the development districts, like the film district in Palermo, are located in already affluent areas of the city. In addition, this emphasis on the development of individual districts has corresponded with a cutback in funds available for other important projects.

The proposed 2014 city budget indicates the lowest spending on social housing in the last decade, a 19 percent reduction from last year and part of a trend of declining funds for those living in improvised and informal housing. 

This budget received harsh criticism from Daniel Filmus, senator for the ruling Frente Para la Victoria (Front for Victory, FPV) party, who charged that the measure could only result in “lowering salaries, lowering social spending, and increasing debt.” Meanwhile, the budget for the city’s Ministry of Social Development will also be reduced by $20 million USD for next year. These cuts have been put into place despite the fact that it is estimated that 350,000 people in the city are living in a situation of “housing emergency.” Educational organizations in the city, like Igualdad Educativa (Education Equality), have also criticized the 2013 budget’s emphasis on subsidies for private schools. 

The sums destined for private schools exceeded the funds allocated to the Subcommittee for Education Equality, an organization charged with increasing inclusion and equality in public education in Buenos Aires, indicating a powerfully regressive approach to education.

Macri is failing in other ways. Lamentably, his  government has dragged its feet on the logistics of a cleanup of the Matanza -Riachuelo River along Buenos Aires’ southern border. The site is infamous,  recently mentioned on Time Magazine’s list of 10 most polluted places. 

A dumping ground for tanneries and other industrial sites, the Riachuelo is heavily contaminated with zinc, lead, copper, nickel, and chromium. Many of the two million people who live along its banks rely on the river for their drinking water, putting their health in jeopardy. While cleanup efforts have begun with an edict from the country’s Supreme Court and with the help of $840 million USD from the World Bank, efforts to relocate more than 2,400 families away from unsafe living conditions on the banks have been stalled by  bureaucratic infighting. Furthermore, a recent report by Acumar, a local government agency, noted the reappearance on the banks of more than 70 percent of the waste that previously had been cleaned from the river’s banks. Finally, the city has not yet addressed the sad fact that there are only 35 inspectors for the more than 16,000 companies located along the river, slowing the pace of clean-up work. The effort could last nine more years and the total cost could be in the billions of dollars, but, as the effects will be felt by only the city’s poorest, cleanup has yet to become a key priority for Macri’s PRO party. These dereliction's of duty on the part of the PRO in Buenos Aires take on grander significance when their aspirations toward national office are taken into account.

Macri’s Political Future

Background Information:

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ARE TWO OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST MULTINATIONAL INDUSTRIES

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/crime-corruption-and-political-system.html

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/crime-corruption-and-political-system_7.html

 “En todo estás vos”

Macri’s PRO is currently the fourth-largest political party in Argentina, after Peronism, the social liberalism of the Unión Cívica Radical party, and the socialist Frente Amplio Progresista party. The PRO party’s political victories in Buenos Aires demonstrate that Macri has caught the imaginations of Argentina’s urban elite. The trouble is, however, that the mayor of Buenos Aires is clearly more concerned with image and “business-friendliness” than with the real needs of his poorest constituents. The city’s website is dedicated to burnishing Macri’s self image,  presenting a sunny image of the city where on every street corner, happy Buenos Aires residents bask under banners declaring  “En todo estás vos” (you are in the middle of everything). Perhaps Macri believes this, perhaps he thinks that the benefits of his urban planning projects will “trickle down” to the city’s poor, but up to this point, it does not appear to be working. At rallies and other events, youth from the city of Buenos Aires chant “Macri, basura, se fue la dictadura” (Macri, you’re trash, the dictatorship is gone). If Macri has future political aspirations, as he apparently does, he must learn to incorporate the needs of those outside his rosy bubble of “modernity.”

By Thomas Abbot via Eurasia Review

USA AND CHINA

THE BIGGEST HEIST OF SECRET US PERSONNEL DATA IN CYBER HISTORY IS STILL ONGOING

Via DEBKAfile Special Report 

The WHITE HOUSE has admitted that systems containing deeply personal information, submitted by current, former and prospective federal government employees for security clearances, had been “exfiltrated.” If the breach of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was conducted by hackers linked to CHINA, as suspected, access to the Standard Form 86 submitted by an estimated 41 million federal employees provided them with what may be the world’s largest stolen data base of US intelligence and military personnel. This is a “gold mine” of unencrypted data that leave US intelligence officers, for example, open to blackmail or coerced recruitment.

While officials speak of two hacks, DEBKAfile’s cyber security and intelligence experts report that it was a single breach and is still ongoing. Known to experts as an “Advanced Persistent Threat,” it amounts to slow, continuous penetration by a computer virus, planted in an individual computer of a network which duplicates itself gradually and insidiously.

Access may have been initiated by sowing particles of malicious code months or even years ago in the mega network of thousands of computers and terminals holding all the records of US federal employees. It could have happened when A OPM staff member surfed rogue Internet sites, opened a contaminated Word or Excel file – or even inserted a Memory Stick (Disk On Key).

The bad news is that it is not over and the damage may not be reversible.  Not only was it discovered belatedly, but more of those malware particles are certainly buried inside communications and data bases serving OPM, waiting for a remote signal from the hackers’ command and control centers, which are believed to be working for CHINA.

According to our experts, it is almost impossible to totally sanitize all the affected computers, servers, switches and other components. The only practical remedy would be for the OPM to totally segregate its computers from the public Internet and severely restrict and supervise data transfers into the system’s different segments. This device would act like highway roadblocks that allow police officers to inspect each individual vehicle.

According to the information published by cyber intelligence magazines, the hackers got away with copies of every Standard Form 86 filed by US intelligence and security personnel and passed it on to an unknown destination.

This form lists mental illnesses, drug and alcohol use, past arrests and bankruptcies. Applicants are required to list contacts and relatives, potentially exposing any foreign relatives of US intelligence employees to coercion. Both the applicant's Social Security number and that of his or her cohabitant are required, as well as driver’s license, passport and phone numbers.

The hack made available to a foreign agency all the personal particulars including photos of every officer employed by US security agencies.

"Recent events underscore the need to accelerate the administration's cyber strategy and confront aggressive, persistent malicious actors that continue to target our nation's cyber infrastructure," the White House statement said.

However, the global ramifications can’t be overlooked of a weapon that knows no borders.

In February, the big US medical insurance firm Anthem reported that the administrative data of “only” 80 million clients were hacked. Smaller breaches may not be reported at all, but are believed to be taking place daily. In all, AMERICA’S government, health and financial in infrastructure is under tremendous constant cyber attack.

CHINA is believed to possess the biggest data base in the world, larger even than the US National Security Agency. Its super computers are operated and maintained by thousands of staff around the clock, their data bases constantly supplemented by information hacked from every US institution, public or private.

GRIECHENLAND

DER GREXIT IST EINE LÜGE

In den Medien wird zurzeit eine seltsame Panik geschürt vor dem Austritt oder Rauswurf GRIECHENLANDS aus der EUROZONE (GREXIT). Wir werden von Fakten erschlagen. Zwei der entscheidendsten Fakten werden aber nicht erwähnt: die Schuld der EU-Politik am Elend in GRIECHENLAND und die Unmöglichkeit des GREXIT.

Von Dr. Christian Weilmeier

Sicher hat GRIECHENLAND geschummelt als es darum ging dem Euro beizutreten. Aber welche Regierung hätte das nicht?

HINTERGRUND INFORMATIONEN:

GRIECHENLAND: GEHEIMER DEAL MIT GOLDMAN SACHS LÖSTE EURO-KRISE AUS

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/goldman-sachs.html

GREECE: IT WAS NOT THE PUBLIC SECTOR BUT THE PRIVATE SECTOR THAT WENT HAYWIRE

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/greece-and-europes-debt.html

Wurde der Euro doch als quasi-religiöses Erlösungswerk von allen Übeln angepriesen. Wer hätte da draußen bleiben wollen. Im Euro ist Heil, ohne Euro stehst du am Rande, bist ein Nichts, wirst überrollt von der strahlenden Macht des künftigen EUROPA. Die EU-Propagandisten haben so dick aufgetragen wie es geht. Dann kam die Finanz- und Eurokrise. Riesige Summen gingen an GRIECHENLAND, na ja, nicht ganz, sie gingen an die griechischen Banken. Die wollte man retten, französische und deutsche Banken hatten eine Menge Verpflichtungen dort.

DIE GRIECHENLANDHILFE WAR NICHT GANZ UNEIGENNÜTZIG.

Irgendwoher muss das Geld aber kommen und darum hat man die griechische Regierung zu einem harten Sparkurs verpflichtet, der das Land zerrüttet und die Menschen in Armut gestürzt hat. Nach neuesten Zahlen leben in Athen 500.000 Menschen als Obdachlose, in Autos oder sonstigen nicht dafür gedachten Unterkünften. Es ist ja nur recht und billig, dass die Menschen mit ihrer Armut den Reichtum der europäischen Banken bezahlen, dachte man sich wohl in BERLIN, LONDON und PARIS.

Dann kam der Wahlsieg von TSIPRAS und seinem Finanzkrieger VAROUFAKIS. Während VAROUFAKIS seinen Finger sofort in die Schwachstellen der EU-Führer bohrte, legte TSIPRAS nach und stürzte sich in ein monatelanges Tauziehen mit den EU-Mächtigen. Wer gibt als Erster nach? Bis jetzt, nach vielen verwirrenden Wendungen, gibt es immer noch keine Klarheit. Ende Juni ist Stichtag, bis dahin muss eine Lösung her, dann laufen die alten Hilfsprogramme aus. Die deutschen Mainstream-Medien haben Schaum vor dem Mund, Politiker schlagen auf GRIECHENLAND ein, drohen mit dem Rauswurf GRIECHENLANDS aus dem Euro und sind doch baff, wie eiskalt die Sozialisten in ATHEN die Macht-Kamarilla in BRÜSSEL auflaufen lassen. Woher kommt dieser Mut? Nun, er kommt aus der Einsicht in die europäischen Realitäten.

HINTERGRUND INFORMATIONEN:

THE EURO HAS BENEFITED GERMANY GREATLY

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/germany-and-greece.html

GRIECHENLAND IST EIN GEOPOLITISCH ENORM WICHTIGER STAAT, VOR DEN TOREN DES NAHEN OSTENS.

Auf seinem Staatsgebiet wurden zudem große Erdgaslagerstätten gefunden, die so viel Geld abwerfen werden, dass es in der Zukunft seine Schulden wird bezahlen können. Die USA unterstützen den Verbleib GRIECHENLANDS im Euro, weil die AMERIKANER keinesfalls eine Zunahme des russischen Einflusses in der Region wollen und natürlich sollen die US-Banken ihre griechischen Kredite zurückbekommen.

HINTERGRUND INFROMATIONEN:

RECENT AEGEAN OIL AND GAS FINDINGS COULD BLOT OUT GREECE’S ENTIRE DEPT

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/hostile-takeover.html

EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_14.html

EIN UNGEORDNETER BANKROTT GRIECHENLANDS ODER DER GREXIT WÜRDEN DAS GANZE WELTFINANZSYSTEM GEFÄHRDEN UND DIE EUROZONE WOMÖGLICH ZERSTÖREN.

Zu guter Letzt ist ein Rauswurf GRIECHENLANDS aus dem Euro vertraglich gar nicht möglich. BRÜSSEL müsste in einem Putsch die Verträge brechen und GRIECHENLAND illegal rauswerfen. Das wäre gelinde gesagt kein gutes Signal. Es wird also nicht passieren. Fazit: Die ganze Sache mit dem GREXIT ist reine Drohkulisse, eine Lüge, mit der die DEUTSCHEN auf ohnehin geplante neue Finanzspritzen vorbereitet werden. Das Gerede um den GREXIT ist nichts als EU-Schmierentheater, niemand sollte darauf hereinfallen. TSIPRAS und VAROUFAKIS wissen das und darum können sie ganz locker bleiben.