To assert that this government is the same than de la rua or menen is to be blind, missinformated or to have the will to confuse the reader.
Menem and de la rua behaved like employed of the imf and it means that they were not ruling for the good of the argentines. We all know how did it finished.
You might agree or not, but the big difference of the K is that the do rule for the benefit of argentines:
A) they paid 100% of the debt with the MFI to avoid its interference in the economy (every country that follow its requests has a social and economy disaster)
B) about 2.500.000 notebooks for public schools students;
C) the social help is attach to send children to achool;
D) the complains about the indec are naive because the k saved a lot of money with the fake statics;
E) nationalization of ypf.
And so on.
You guys should have lived here in menemismo. Not only the quantity of corruption cases, but the quality!!! think of diputrucho, totally impossible nowadays, to put the waiter and pass himself off as a diputado!!! the huge corruption in every single privatization, they sold out everything very cheap, and they certainly took a part of each, and here is present also the buyer, the private corruption we talked about than negotiated the price with the government, sooooooo the opposite of what CFK would do now. There was an important case of corruption almost every week, and since the policy of privatization and make smaller the State, there were always a big enterprize envolved, like the IBM-Banco Nacion, Siemmens, Iberia, the tv channels, etc.. They were all laughing in our faces, it was grotesque, and the unemployment went from 5% to 25%, the poverty from 6% to 53% in 2002. Argentina was the best student the IMF had, they made every single recipe they told, they followed the manual exactly how they said: privatization, deindustrialization and transform the economy into an agro-export model, with a tiny internal market and millions and millions excluded of the economy, stop inflation, take debt, obviously from them, so they can regulate the interest rate, every step they took in that direction, in the direction of international organisms where the USA rules, every single step was announcing the 2001 debacle. This government is going in the exact opposite direction, without debt, recovering the big enterprizes the state had (that means quality jobs for a loooooot of people), include people into the formal economy, expand the internal market and (the intention of) industrialization.
This being said, I strongly believe that the Kirchners are in fact corrupted. Theres a youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0sVahmUAps
that speaks for itself, this is just a sample of Kirchner adulation to Menems policies. They also opposed to some of them, but they did apply the most of their policies. I talk to a guy who knows a lot of these things and he told me that with the YPF privatization as Santa Cruz is a petroleum province the Ks stole like 500 million dollars. And is not only the Ks, there are a lot of intendentes, gobernadores, there are a lot of poor provinces governed by maffias, and the real social base of kirchnerismo, sadly, is the poor people of the conurbano, managed by punteros, intendentes, all this huge mass of people with little to no political or civic education. That is call in spanish "aparato", thats the poverty net that they take advantage for, beyond this government is dealing and trying to change that situation or not.
This government surely is corrupted but is definetely less corrupted than Menemismo, De la Rua and Duhalde (number one narco), and its not something that will change if this government leaves, as I said, its cultural, is property of the country, of the society, not something distinctive of this government. You have to be very stupid to believe that corruption will stop with a new government, no one can change this in a short term.
