A week before Christmas, the slow-motion collapse of Argentina suddenly turned swift and violent. Two days of rioting brought down the government and left 31 people dead. All but one were killed by gunfire from shopkeepers and police. Some died while shouting political slogans, others while looting food that they had no money to buy. […]
Mark Healey
Mark Alan Healey, a professor of history at the University of Mississippi.
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The Costs of Orthodoxy
“En este país está todo mal hecho, pero está tan bien hecho que es indestructible.” (Everything in this country is made badly, but it is so craftily done as to be indestructible.) –Argentine President Arturo Frondizi (1960) What a time Argentines had in the nineties, that age of economic marvels. Long-standing corruption and mismanagement seemed […]