So Iceland’s progressive government that’s one of the only in the world actually jailing bankers for causing the crash goes under, while here in Argentina, the neoliberal conservative government full of CEOs is staying? Even after the president, 10 of his family members, his best friend and business partner (and erstwhile recipient of almost 100% of all government infrastructure and maintenance contracts since Macri became mayor of Buenas Aires in 2008), three of the president’s cabinet, the mayor of two cities and various friends all were found to have offshore entities? Ok. But Obama loves those guys, and likes Yerba mate, so great.
The fly on the shit sandwich is that these guys ran on a platform of ‘vote for us because the Kirschners’ progressive government that built up the middle class and diminished poverty were corrupt, and that’s bad’. Up until yesterday, after a little over 100 days of brutal capitalism on a rampage against regulation, with an end to subsidies, elimination of taxes for the mining industries and big agro, 150,000 layoffs in government, the closing of social programs and a sudden devaluation of 60%, people who only had access to conservative news outlets were still saying, ‘well this hurts but it was necessary to be done with those corrupt progressives’.
Supposedly the original release date for the leaks was in November, which would have been before the elections down here, very possibly costing Macri the slim margin he won by, or at least shutting his trap about how they were all ‘honesty and transparency’ compared to that dirty government for the people. But the date got pushed back. Lucky for upper class and hedge fund bros, bad as hell for the 1 million 400000 human beings down here who have fallen into poverty since New Years.
