Then open up the markets so they have to compete and can't control the price within the country. Where are all the Uruguayan tomatoes, Brazilian tomatoes etc etc... I thought mercosur was supposed to "promote free trade and the fluid movement of goods, people, and currency"
Right, but how do you pay them? Pesos? I don t think that they are going to accept pesos. It is all about that.
So Facism is something you support? Why would facsim work here when it has never worked anywhere else in the world?
Well, fascims worked out for about 20 years in Italy until Mussolini made the mistake of getting into WWII. Franco was smarted and Spain in the 80´s left it.
I don t support fascism. I just describe Argentina without valuate it. I didn't say it works out, I assert that it is the way things are. Remember that those italians who were super fascist, when the Allies won, they escaped to Argentina where there was a President who copied the Italian Fascism: Peron.
It is important to understand that Argentina is a country with a political and social system that are fascist because then everything makes sense. In a fascist country there is no free market, prices are agreed between the government and producers. But what happends here is that producers rebeled and they want to charge even more than in NYC for low quality food (because the good one is exported).
But the problem, I think, is not the government, it is the people who has a way to think that is fascist. If you apply "solutions" that works out in countries that are not fascist, here they are going to be a disaster. Take a look to what happend with the tomato crisis on 2007. Farmers rised the price from 4 pesos to 14 just like that. It weren t argentines who put them in place, where the chinese supermarkets. My wife is from Korea and she is very surprised that people don t complain and rebel to the raise of prices like it happens in Korea.
I give you another example. When you have a monopoly of food like here, if you don t have a State strong, there are huge abuses from farmers like the one we are seeing right now with wheat or tomatoes. So, to reduce the State, normally recomended in this forums, it is a disaster like what happends in 2001 because the farmers then replace the State and they like more monarchy than democracy. This is what happends so many times during the 20th century.
Montoneros during the 70´s had very clear this problems and that´s why they saw the unions (of workers and farmers) as the enemies (they decided for violence as a political tool, I disagree about that).
This administration has the montoneros philosophy, that is why they are taking weird mesures (for international standards) according to the problems that this country has, because let s be realistic, there are no many other fascist countries in the world right now to compare with if the desicions taken are good or wrong. But there is something I m sure, to mesure the desicions using basic concepts of free market is a huge unnacuracy.
I'm shocked i tell you SHOCKED! :lol:
