Gov't Shutters Telecommunications Boards, Polemic Ensues

[Noesdeayer]

EdRooney:
I was trying to be fecetious
.My argument is that for Macri and Argentina this is a moment for expdiency.There are other priorities right now.
When Cristina did it in 2012 it wasn't necessary to be expedient.She had already been in office for 5 years.She could have done it with "all those tedious constitutional formalities".
Why did she choose not to? Could she have been too busy "going for everything" maybe?

 

[ben]

Question: Has ever a massively populist country become less populist and more responsible, absent non-democratic intervention?

I don't mean stretching constitutional constructs as seems to be being done here, I mean the army moving in. Like, say, Chile.

Chile seems to be doing pretty OK now, but it's rather doubtful it'd ever get where it is now, absent a dictatorship which did some pretty bad things. Can anybody think of a country that has ever managed to get it done cleaner?

 

[Rich One]

That has to be the most childish argument I've ever heard. (Most) everyone here agrees CFK was an awful president. Now you want to use her as a model for how the current government should break the law as well?

Along the same line of argument The CFK government justified all evils saying Look what we received in 2003 a country in Flames...!

Now the Macrismo claims we were left with a country broken and with no reserves...!

 

[Noesdeayer]

ben.
Off the top of my head,In Latin America I would say Costa Rica which is more or less a model of democratic gov't in the region.Obviously,being so small helps a lot.
Chile,in spite of its long democratic tradition, has always had one of the most unequal social srata in the region and.was not "massively populist" under Alende it was attempting to correct these inequalities with a brand of socialist economics that didn't work-to say nothing for the moment about Kissenger and Operacion Condor
Luckliy,for Chile her economic success of the last 20 or so years is evening out her social inequities albeit gradually.
Bachelet to her credit was able to announce yesterday the first step in offering free university education to 27% of low income families.The plan is something like Colombia's.Those who can pay,will pay and those who can prove that they can not pay ,will not.