Posted on 10/24/2019 7:00:41 AM PDT by C19fan
The peso is falling — and so, it seems, is the sky. Inflation and poverty rates are soaring. National reserves are shrinking fast. In short, Argentina — in a terrible deja vu of crises past — is hurtling once again toward the economic abyss.
But on the bar stools and wooden chairs of Santa Evita, a grill house dedicated to Eva “Evita” Perón, the political heroine who died a Broadway-worthy death in 1952, the customers are retranqui, Argentine slang for cool and calm. Because the presidential election is coming. And the Peronistas — the heirs to the complex populist political machine launched in the 1940s by Juan and Eva Perón — are poised for a massive comeback.
The ticket heavily favored to win this month has the corruption-tainted former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, returning to the political stage as the vice-presidential candidate. A larger-than-life Peronista who ruled Argentina from 2007 to 2015, she towers over presidential candidate Alberto Fernández, a former palace adviser and now her lesser-known running mate.
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Oh what a circus, oh what a show!
That seems to be the way of South America. If they could only break that cycle, they could be much better off.
But this time they know that Britain will not have the strength to take back the Falklands!
Guess they’re taking their cue from Venezuela.
A friend and business associate who lives there explains it this way - Argentina is really a mafia style of government. Its the default mode and the corrupt people and structures that abuse it are always in place, so that mafia structure will always eventually come to the fore.
The article seems to say Argentina is plagued with a dead Evita.
Meanwhile in America we are plagued with a still living Nancy.
Yeah, kinda reminds you of a certain American political party, doesn’t it?
One of my church friends is Venezuelan and he notes with worry that the socialism that has virtually sunk his homeland has now infected Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay and Peru, not to mention all the Venezuelans who fled to Colombia and, like Californians, are demanding to recreate the same hellholes there which they just left.
Venezuela, Chile, now Argentina ...
Soon to be followed by Colombia, Bolivia, and Brazil?
Instability seems to be the watchword in these countries. Footings on a banana peel ...
At one point, I had a roommate who was on a list of los desaparecidos in Argentina.
I sponsored a guy from Ecuador, too, to study here. He was in their government, but I don’t remember what, except that it was pretty bland work. He brought his family here. I met them. They did go home.
She had her moments, she had some style
The best show in town was the crowd
Outside the Casa Rosada crying, “Eva Peron”
But that’s all gone now
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears
We’re all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years
And the money kept rolling out in all directions
To the poor, to the weak, to the destitute of all complexions
Now cynics claim a little of the cash has gone astray
But that’s not the point my friends
When the money keeps rolling out you don’t keep books
You can tell you’ve done well by the happy, grateful looks
Accountants only slow things down, figures get in the way
Never been a lady loved as much as Eva Peron
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
Rollin’ on out, rollin’ on out
Rollin’ on out, rollin’ on out
On out, Eva
Some people are simply not capable of self governance.
It really sucks too. Argentina has a lot of resources, especially in oil and gas. Second largest shale play behind the Permian. I don’t know why latin american countries can’t use their resources to be world players for something other than drugs and cartels.
Indeed. Time for “Falklands II: Electric Boogaloo”
They also know they have the campus so-called “progressives” in most of the western world on their side this time around, as the “liberation of Las Malvinas” is on the same list of progressive “Anti-KKKolonialiSSt” pet-causes as “Occupied Palestine”, Occupied Québec” and “Aztlan Reconquista”.
Now I don’t like to spoil a wonderful story
But the news from Rome is not so good
She hasn’t gone down like we thought she would
Italy’s unconvinced by Argentine glory
They equate Peron with Mussolini
Can’t think why
Did you here that?
They called me a whore!
They actually called me a whore!
But Signora Peron
It’s an easy mistake
I’m still called an admiral
yet I gave up the sea long ago
I love the original Broadway “Evita” with Patti Lupone in the role, even though otherwise I despise her. Maybe she played the role so well because she identifies with a psuedo-socialist, hypocritical, murderous, vengeful tyrant.
Good thought. I changed a word to make it more relevant to us.
Britain is in NATO, if the Falklands were attacked we would be obliged to help or support Britain if necessary.
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