Graham-Yooll On Argentina's Isolationism

[ajoknoblauch]

Column in today's Herald: http://tinyurl.com/nts5s69, asks "Now the question is, 'How can we ask people to live in a system that calls the opposition enemies, wants the critical press muzzled, the unions, the courts, the armed forces and even the soccer chieftains, divided the better to rule over?'”

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Dreadful journalism.

Incoherent, error strewn ramblings with zero substance. Yes, most of us agree the current administration is damaging the country, OK, but the content here is very poor. Hiding among the poor grammar and clumsy phrases is what exactly? The idea the people aren't overly enamoured with the image of Argentina abroad?

Argentina has long been viewed as a country of brilliant individuals with dreadful leadership. Not a new development.

Quotes?, sources?, figures?, a new angle?...correct use of English? Is this some weird experiment in steam of conscious writing,.. unfiltered and unedited.

The following quote is particularly lazy.

"There may be many foreign students writing deeply thought essays about the “dirty war” and the 70s, given that it holds renown as a gruesomely attractive topic, but they are unable to give you a full sentence about the political and economic circumstances in Argentina."

The current plight of Argentina is well understood by those who have an interest in Latin American politics and I am very certain that most ofthe current academic focus is on post crisis Argentina and it's relavance to a variety of European countries today.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Dreadful journalism.

Incoherent, error strewn ramblings with zero substance. Yes, most of us agree the current administration is damaging the country, OK, but the content here is very poor. Hiding among the poor grammar and clumsy phrases is what exactly? The idea the people aren't overly enamoured with the image of Argentina abroad?

Argentina has long been viewed as a country of brilliant individuals with dreadful leadership. Not a new development.

Quotes?, sources?, figures?, a new angle?...correct use of English? Is this some weird experiment in steam of conscious writing,.. unfiltered and unedited.

The following quote is particularly lazy.

"There may be many foreign students writing deeply thought essays about the “dirty war” and the 70s, given that it holds renown as a gruesomely attractive topic, but they are unable to give you a full sentence about the political and economic circumstances in Argentina."

The current plight of Argentina is well understood by those who have an interest in Latin American politics and I am very certain that most ofthe current academic focus is on post crisis Argentina and it's relavance to a variety of European countries today.

I would disagree. This is an opinion piece by one of Argentina's most distinguished journalists, lamenting the fact that his country has repeatedly failed to distinguish itself. Even worse, it's failed to recognize that that is the case.