Block those cruise ships, show them what's what!

va2ba said:
Lets do the math. There was at least 5000 passengers on the two boats. If each of those passengers spends 10 dollars while in town (and lets face it, that is a very conservative estimate), that is 50,000 dollars that they just threw down the drain. I am sure that the Chilenos won't have an issue accepting that money.

For a country that is so concerned about capital flight, this a downright dumb thing to do.
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The taxi mafia at the cruise ship port in Buenos Aires charges a flat fee of US$10 just to get to the Recoleta Cemetery. AR$45 and it should be about AR$20.

Then there's the getting back, and the ice cream (~US$5/person), and blah-blah-blah...

Literally I would say the average person on a cruise dumps about US$50/person in Buenos Aires. There are many who spend less, but there are PLENTY who dump US$100/each. From tours to replica albiceleste jerseys to lunch, to taxis...

In Ushuaia it would probably be about US$30/person on average, because the distances are shorter and they're not known for leather & steak. That being said, a seafood lunch might be US$25/person right there.

Just absolutely moronic.

Chopping off your nose to spite your enemy's face.
 
This story makes no sense. Not that I don't believe it... but what is the point of turning away British tourists? :confused: It doesn't hurt the Brits at all... they'll just dock elsewhere.

And how does a governor have the right to turn away ships from an international port? In matters of international diplomacy it seems that would be an unwise decision to make unless she had permission from the top.

It's all pretty silly... :rolleyes:
 
Eclair said:
This story makes no sense. Not that I don't believe it... but what is the point of turning away British tourists? :confused: It doesn't hurt the Brits at all... they'll just dock elsewhere.

And how does a governor have the right to turn away ships from an international port? In matters of international diplomacy it seems that would be an unwise decision to make unless she had permission from the top.

It's all pretty silly... :rolleyes:
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She absolutely got directions from Queen Cristina.

This whole "Make It Up As We Go Along" governing & diplomacy is just mind numbingly shocking. (Like you say, it's not suprising, but maybe that's because we've seen almost 4 1/2 years of it.)

There are arguments that can be made where depending on your views ("left" vs "right", "Socialist" vs "Capitalist/Free Market"), both sides could be argued as "the correct way to do things"... and then there's this past week.

The train wreck, the vacation flight from responsibility, the random speech (delayed 2 hours for WHAT exactly?), and turning away hundreds of thousands of dollars that would be paid to "working people" (rather than land owners of the campo)...

It's come to the point where you start having to question possible chemical dependency issues involved in the decision making process. It just doesn't make sense from any political view.
 
This is all makes perfect sense providing you put yourself in our dear leaders expensive imported shoes. No matter what is happening in the press, the Malvinas can always be relied upon to distract millions of people and grab headlines, knocking the lead story off the front page.

Whats a few thousand tourist dollars matter, when suddenly millions of people are enraged about a couple of rocks in the southern atlantic? Sure, the bodies of the dead from a train wreck are barely cold. People are protesting about open cast mines. There's ongoing scandals regarding espionage, corruption and of course there's a faltering economy and rampant inflation. But what does any of this matter, so long as the Malvinas still aren't Argentine?

The worst thing that could possibly happen regarding the Malvinas, is that the issue of sovereignty is settled in such a way that Argentina no longer has an axe to grind. Their economic value is miniscule in comparison to their political value as an extraordinarily powerful and reliable national distraction.
 
Consider what this kind of rash decision making could mean for foreigners living here.

I wouldn't doubt a sudden implementation of anti-gringo measures with a show-trial element from the media.
 
That is the most concerning exactly-The rash and hasty style these decisions are made at a moment´s notice without any just cause to back it up, and actually HURTS the country´s economy.

It is the same kind of spontaneous crazy decision making I would expect from them and reminds me of a 5 year old deciding he wants chocolate cake for breakfast.

But, someone pointed out something that is very true, many of the types of people who voted K will not understand the horrible rationale and economic consequence behind this, and will just see it as a heroic measure of Queen K to castigate and show ém who´s boss and they will actually delight in this measure.
 
Rash and hasty decisions have been the norm for Argentine politics for years. When you have a country that has never done any real long-term planning, where short-term policies reign supreme, then rash and hasty decisions are to be expected.
 
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