Henry Kissinger and Argentina

[ben]

What BS ????.....facts are facts.....if you have no knowledge of the dictatorship or dirty war in Argentina, I suggest you read about ''Operation Condor'', including the recently released documents......also note that the Macri & Bullrich families ( among others ) prospered during this abusive and shameful period......now take a look at who has prospered ( The Elliot Fund, Big Banks, the Multinational's, etc. ) during the Macri Administration, and who has suffered ( those with the least money, workers, and the general economy )......it is excusable to not be aware the facts....... that can be corrected with reading and objective observation....it is inexcusable to purposely remain ignorant of the facts and ignore them.

OK let’s try a crash course in Logic 101.

Rule #1: Correlation does not imply causation.
That a given family did well during a given time period is zero indication, absent further evidence, that the abuses of that time period were the cause thereof.
Insinuating that there is a causal relationship - with no evidence other than that they happened at the same time - is a function not of logic but of demagoguery.
Now, to your assertion that those who have suffered in the Macri administration are “those with the least money, workers, and the general economy”.

First of all, not to put too fine a point on it, but the first two items on that list are similarly superfluous.
When an economy slumps, those who suffer are always “those with the least money” and “workers”. People who have lots of money suffer less from shocks of the economy - surprise!
And yes, when the economy is bad there is usually less employment and as such workers suffer.

So to condense your statement into something coherent: “Under the Macri Administration, the economy has suffered”.
This sounds much less shrill and sinister than the way you phrased it, but on the other hand is coherent and correct.

The questions, then, become: 1) how much responsibility does Macri bear for the state of the economy, and 2) whether exchanging Macri for the K’s would make things better or worse.

As for (1), there is little question that Macri’s mishandled some things pretty badly.
There is also little dispute that he inherited a pretty shitty economy that was frankly on a precipice.
The gap between the “official” price of foreign currency and its price on the open market was nearly 75%. In the industry I work in, several major airlines had ceased to sell tickets in Argentina, you had to buy from a foreign website in USD.
Inflation was skyrocketing, not a bit less than it is today. The government was forcing McDonalds to sell Big Macs at a lower price - or stop selling them entirely - so as to not look bad on the Big Mac Index. INDEC’s numbers were widely derided as worthless.
Instead of debt to the IMF, you had debt to the vulture funds, which debt the government was pretending didn't exist so no rational debate could be had.
And the state subsidies of all utilities were a ticking time bomb.

So, while Macri clearly failed at getting the Arg economy to take flight, let us have no illusions about the difficulty of the task that lay before him.
As well as - and here we get to (2) the fallacy of putting in his place the same people who got us into this shit in the first place.