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Left-leaning Fernandez hails government of people, but central bank currency move shows no quick fix to economic woes.
Fernandez's win unleashed euphoria in parts of Buenos Aires, as supporters cruised the streets honking their car horns, and a wave of people surged towards the neighbourhood of Chacarita, where the official victory party was being held.
Speaking to supporters at his party's headquarters, Fernandez thanked voters for showing a commitment to building a more equal Argentina.
"We're going to be the Argentina that we deserve because it's not true that we're condemned to this Argentina," he said.
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Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President
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Silverman's Law:
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @05:45PM (2 children)
People die when having no food and/or no medicine, you know. And their deaths are nastier than simply being shot.
While a post-coup government can be an equally stupid failure and/or engage in mass slaughter, history shows those options firmly correlate with socialist ideology. No one that I know of, ever destroyed his country in the name of free market.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by ikanreed on Monday October 28 2019, @06:12PM
Wellll that's as much of a lie as I've ever heard.
At bare undeniable minimum, 45,000 people die a year from lack of medical care in the richest country in the world, due to our stupid obsession with the free market. [aphapublications.org](and this particular paper intentionally controls for the fact that poverty kills people in ways not associated with health care)
The GDP of Russia crashed to 50% and the death rate rose rapidly for a over decade [macrotrends.net] after the collapse of Soviet Communism, leaving behind an oligarchical state that is as tyranical and dismal as anything under kruschev.
While the "Chilean Miracle" of mass-murder induced "free market" ideology absolutely corresponded with an increase in GDP(and thus GDP per capita) poverty rates and a reversal of the trend in decreasing death rates [macrotrends.net] too huge increases are stark.
Becoming capitalist absolutely destroys countries as much as any economic transition does. And it doesn't have much to offer in return.
We're murdering people to overthrow a democratically elected government, then killing millions more with ideology. No one benefits from a definition of "freedom" that builds itself
I'm not a communist, but the shit they say makes so much more goddamn sense than this kind of absolutist free market purestrain bullshit, and you sign off on mass murder so easily, based on statements that are trivially found to be wrong.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday October 28 2019, @10:00PM
When the CIA overthrow this government, it will not be because of free markets.