Posted on 12/30/2001 5:11:56 PM PST by Cuban123
This is Breaking RIGHT NOW. He blamed the governor of Cordoba, Argentina for not working with him. Argentina is once again in Chaos and the Interim President just resigned.
Maybe we can channel Ygroyian or some other Personalist loser from the past.
Argentina's fate could very well have been Americas. Thank God a Clinton was not elected in 1932.
This will continue a few days more until the mob gets a shot at burning out some of the wealthier fascists and power brokers who got the country into this trouble.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -
U.S. and Colombian authorities on Sunday found $41 million in bogus U.S. dollars inside a house in Bogota - the largest seizure of counterfeit dollars in Colombia, police said. The commander of the Colombian national police, Gen. Ernesto Gilibert, described the discovery to reporters as an "overwhelming blow" to the counterfeiting industry. Colombia is the world's top producer of phony dollars, responsible for nearly half of the false notes in circulation, authorities said.
U.S. Secret Service agents and Colombian police discovered the fake money packed in boxes in a middle-class neighborhood in the capital, Bogota, said National Police spokeswoman Ligia Escalante.
Police said at least one of the boxes was destined for Ecuador, which now uses the U.S. currency as its own. No one was captured in the raid.
U.S. and Colombian authorities have seized $65 million in false dollars this year in Colombia, Escalante said. Last year, authorities in Colombia found a dollars counterfeiting factory that they believe could have produced more than $1 billion before it was dismantled.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAST3WKVVC.html
Argentine interim President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa resigned on Sunday, the country's second leader in just over a week to quit after violent street protests amid a grinding recession.
Rodriguez Saa said in a televised address his resignation could not be rejected and was effective immediately. He had been due to hold office until elections in March but blamed his departure on a lack of support from his own Peronist Party.
Thousands of Argentines took to the streets late on Friday, protesting Rodriguez Saa's handling of an economic slump now in its fourth year and accusing him of putting corrupt politicians in his cabinet. After several hours of calm, violent clashes with police erupted, leading to looting of Congress and downtown banks.
Violent protests that killed 27 people forced Fernando de la Rua to resign as president on Dec. 20 only halfway through his four-year term.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011230/wl/argentina_dc_84.html
I volunteer my skills as Imperial Overlord for the Argentinian nation.
Andrew
I left that morass in 1962 and never looked back.
The Peronists under Juan Peron is who started the mess in the first place.
The real reason for the collapse of Argentina has been it's socialized welfare system introduced by the Peronists in the late 1940's. No goverment military or democratic has had the balls to tear down the welfare state. Instead they borrowed from the international markets to make up the budget shortfall to maintain a welfare state they could not afford. Instead of investing capital in productive activities they squandered it on the welfare system. Now they have to pay the piper and all the people who have been sucking at the tit are now having to realized the tit has dried up.
Argentina will never amount to anything unless it gets rid of the productive people paying for the unproductive. The real shame is the country is an immensily rich country in natural resources saddled by a population that is brain dead.
Look carefully at Argentina because that is where the welfare state eventually leads.
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