orwellian said:
I don't think you support any military regime. I do however think you are very naive and ignorant. That the CIA has funded dictatorships and overthrown democratically elected governments is historically documented and even admitted by the U.S itself.
You see, they don't even have to bribe your politicians, the threat of an assassination or a military coup is enough.
And while it's true that colonialism happened a long time ago, it still exists today but now in the slightly more advanced form of imperialism instead.
And btw, calling people idiots and telling them to "go and fuck yourself" doesn't really help your argument.
Events you are mentioning took palce many decades ago. Besides there´s lots of things documented like for instance, the terrorist attacks and the existance of the guerrilla during those times being totally in alliance with the CIA´s special interest in funding a Dictatorship in Argentina. these acts were taking place way before the military took over. Because of these attacks (were innocent ppl was being killed, kidanpped and tortured) when the crazy heads of the army decided to take over the gvnt the ppl in general supported them (obviously not knowing what was coming ahead..for the most part that is). Again, the main characters in this plot are still argentinians whether the Us enouraged it or not (I have not read anywhere that the Us admitted to this type of support though I have not done deep research on this so Im not saying it didnt happen) it makes no difference or very little.
Take our current situation. There´s no guerrillas acting or attacking, there´s lots of poverty and corruption but no guerrillas. Do you think that the almighty US could start a Military coup ? It cannot happen, as much as they would love (again, supposedly) to see Kirchners fall and take over our resources and many other theories they would not be able to start a dictatoship simply because the needed characters are not there anymore. No guerrillas, no murders and bombings, hence, no support whatsoever from anybody.
Assasination threats ? would they kill Nestor kirchner ? that would only turn him into a martir and would turn lots of ppl to his cause. Kill someone close to him ? his response would be go ahead, pls do..again, strengthen his cause.
There is indeed though many pressure coming from the world powers, that´s something that has always been there but other countries similar to ours have been able to overcome that pressure and start taking command of their countries regardless. They keep tapping different territories to enter and do their thing. Argentina with this corrupted govnt and the general lawless state is heaven to these powers (not govnts necessarily but certainly corporations if there´s any difference). They can come in and do whatever they want as long as they give their cut to the ppl running the show here.
So, either Kirchners are in on it with the evil US and its evil plan or strongly opposing them but by some miracle without any overthrwoing actions against him.
Either way the end result is the same. Kirchner = filthy rich / ppl = poor and ignorant - Conclusion: Our problems are either entirely or at least for the most part our own responsibility since this guy has been put there by us through free democratic elections.
Had we elected someone opposite to Kirchner (im only naming K but we can also include in this category Menem and countless other second line polititians, congressmen, judges, etc) who actually cared about the country and was honest (or as honest as a polititian can be) then not all the money in the world could have influenced him/her on selling out the country and its ppl.
About the name calling thing, I was not trying to help my argument, i was simply responding to a completely unfounded accusation where i was directly portraid as a Genocide supporter, not to subtle but still the right kind of response to such accusation.
And about me being naive and ignorant, keep in mind we all are, I would not consider wise to believe one has the truth and whoever does not agree is ignorant, specially with historic events where many shady things ocurred. There´s no way in the world you or I or anybody else for that matter can know what really happend, we can only gather as much info as possible, focus on known facts and then come to conclusions. I do respect your point of view on this subject and there´s many locals (i would say a mayority of argies) completaly agree with you but there´s not many facts there though many allegations (for instance, these worldwide evil powers, altough their existance is of common knowledge i seriously doubt anybody can put a name/tag on them based on proven facts of course).
Ghost: Not every argentine blames others for our problems !
-Juan