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By Douglas Farah, Op-ed @ ForeignPolicy.com, June 4,2013
Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has hit on a novel way to try to alleviate her self-inflicted economic free fall and acute shortage of hard currency -- invite money launderers from around the world to put their dollars in Argentine banks with no questions asked.
That's not, of course, the official plan. But this month's move is the latest in a series of steps that seem more rooted in magical thinking than in economic reality that have pushed Argentina ever closer to financial ruin and international pariah status. The government-sponsored amnesty to allow any amount of dollars from anywhere in the world to find a home in Argentina, with no questions asked, was passed into law last Wednesday. The justification is the need for hard currency because the current economic policies have drive up the value of the "blue-" or black-market dollar to 10 pesos while the official exchange remains pegged at 5 pesos [.....]
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From the article:
It intrigued me so I googled them to learn more. Found a very informative PDF:
by EmmaZahn on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 11:57am
Yes, good of you to point it out. Especially youthful passion to help Argentina regain its rightful place as a world leader. Paging Orwell for sure. Farah might be spinning some according to his view, but still, striking and kinda scary, especially anytime you can put on the label messianic without being laughed at.
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 1:31pm
The PDF is way scarier.
Blowback almost never ends well for anyone.
As an aside, there is one paragraph from it that I would like to learn more about:
by EmmaZahn on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 2:08pm
It's the classic South American variation of Orwell. The places and points where fascism and Marxism meet. Stuff of a movie featuring Javier Bardem.
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 2:23pm
Throw this into the mix, that government corruption and Kirchner cronyism is a highly popular topic there:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 2:28pm