En relación a [L-I] (Spanish) (Fwd) Secrecy in economic talks q, el 3 Mar 01, a las 8:39, Gorojovsky dijo: > > > Within three weeks we shall be on March 24th, the 25th anniversary of the 1976 > coup. This coup is still well and alive, which can be seen in the political > economy of today's Argentina. > > Which, of course, will not prevent them from going ahead. While the lines above were written, the Minister of Economy José Luis Machinea was being replaced. The possible substitutes are still more reactionary than him. The two names that are resounding are López Murphy, so rancid a neoliberal that word is passed that the Chicago Boys consider him a rightist (no kidding), and Christian Colombo, a dubious parvenu whose only peculiarity is that he is a personal boot licker of the USA. There is also strong word that the head of the Central Bank will be replaced also, Pedro Pou giving place to --Domingo Cavallo! The backcloth to all this, which must be interpreted as a further attack on the interests of the Argentinean people and the Argentinean nation, is: a) Machinea and his crew, fleeing by running ahead of the fires, tried to convince our President De La Rúa (a reactionary nullity, if there has ever been any in human history) that with the last loan offered by the IMF (which was known here, and thoroughly advertised, as "financial shield") things would begin to move ahead superbly, people would begin buying goods, investors would gain confidence in us again, further loans to Argentina would be very cheap, and negotiations with the creditors would be smooth as a billiard table. This illusion lasted less than a summer. Economy fell back to the doldrums (if it had ever left them), and credit to Argentina began to rise again. The mystifiers in power tried to blame either the Turkish crisis, the laryngytis of Dubya, or my aunt Rosa's kitten for the disaster. They failed, and their heads fell down. 2. At the same time, a scandal, where the Citibank is deeply involved, shook the confidence of the financial sector here. This scandal served to attack Pedro Pou, an arch-rogue who commands the Central Bank from the times of Menem, and could not manage to escape the revelations made in the Congress of the United States on the ways he has been covering money launderers. In a situation resembling that of the War of Jugurtha, issues essential for a Province of the Empire are revealed in the Senate at Rome! Pou's remotion is illegal, however, since the law protects him. He has been elected (not by popular vote, but the law of the Central Bank gives its President a term at office) and he announced that he would "wage battle". His situation, however, is untenable. So that, who is announced to replace this roguish agent of the financial thieves? Domingo Cavallo, no less, the man who is proposing outright dollarization! Cavallo has been the President of the Central Bank, by the way, during the last military government. So that, as it seems to happen always in Argentina, we are leaving summer and entering fall in turmoil. Turbulences ahead. Will keep you posted. Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
