Take a peek into the future from a neo-con experiment in progress

[formercia]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4793814.stm

The Argentine economy appears to be booming. Unemployment is down, exports are up and the economy grows month after month. But do these statistics tell the full story?

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But even here, especially here, there is the starkest possible reminder that Argentina still has a problem, with the opening - right in the middle of this much-sought-after neighbourhood - of a community kitchen that will serve only poor children and pensioners.It will be run by one of the country's most well-known radical protesters, Raul Castells, on land donated by a wealthy businessman. A huge poster, within sight of the guests at the nearby Hilton Hotel, reads: "We are fighting for an Argentina where the dogs of the rich are no longer fed better than the children of the poor."
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[bleedingheart]

1. when people in the middle class and wealthy communities

hide behind padlocked gates and have private patrols...you know they fear the poor and the fact that one day the poor may show up with pitch forks...

[Lasher]

2. This is exactly what the pukes want

Except for the poster with the inflammatory statement. And the radical protesters demoralizing the troops like that. Argentina needs a Patriot Act and a few Gitmos.

[formercia]

3. They already had their 'Dirty War'

They didn't need Gitmos. People just disappeared.

[Lasher]

4. Hey, that's even more efficient

Like the original post said, Argentina is the future for us. Just the wealthy elite and their servants, with no middle class. Looks like we're right on schedule.

[formercia]

6. First the country fights a war which can't be won

In Argentina's case it was the Falklands.

[formercia]

7. Then the 'boys' bankrupt the country.

Having your friends running the banks to make you loans which never get repaid.

[formercia]

8. Then you and your friends buy up the infrastructure

for pennies on the dollar.

[formercia]

5. Fearless Leader and Poppy have been busy there for a long time.

http://www.thegully.com/essays/argentina/010227corruption.html

Dirty Money, Big Banks
and the Mafia State

by Ana Simo

FEBRUARY 27, 2001. It has all the ingredients of a best-selling thriller. A fearless, crusading legislator, execution-style murders at a luxury beach resort, billions in dirty money, a nosy U.S. Senate subcommittee, a country's tottering economy, drug cartels, arms dealers, bribes, and even a golf partner of former President George Bush. It's Argentina's widening money-laundering scandal, now entering its last and most convoluted chapter.

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The Central Bank President, who maintains that he is innocent, blames Citibank for hiding information from him. Pou was appointed by former Argentinean President Carlos Menem (1989-1999), a friend and golfing partner of the elder Bush. Menem's administration was reputedly one of the most corrupt in recent Argentinean history.

--snip--

Banco República, which collapsed in 1999 in the midst of a financial scandal, was headed by Raúl Moneta, a crony of former Argentinean President Carlos Menem. Although he has been indicted, Moneta remains free. He is "Exhibit A" for Carrió's theory of Argentinean impunity. Moneta and Citibank were partners in CEI Citicorp Holdings, an Argentinean communications group, along with Tom Hicks, Texas Rangers owner and George W. Bush presidential campaign bankroller.