At 10:48 03/03/01 -0300, Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote: >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! This is a very important battle with significance for the global capitalist economic order. I acknowledge Nestor's formulations about how this signals further attempts to put the burden on the working class of Argentina. However from outside the Argentinian state looks bankrupt of economic strategy. As reported on CNN the commentators merely note that despite a $40 billion loan and impeccable obedience over the last two years to everything the neo-liberal global orthodoxy could wish, Argentina is still stagnating. Whatever short term solutions are found, this personal crisis reflects a problem that will become still starker: how even a relatively developed country like Argentina can retain and develop its own economic surplus in a neo-liberal global economy. Chris Burford London _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
