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PATETICA PROTESTS PUBLICAS!
I felt that a title in Castellano was particularly apt in this instance!
As an Englishman, who has been living here for eight years, I generally find these public protests to be pathetic. I appreciate that they are part of your culture, but the majority of people who engage in them (apart from, for example, the recent abortion protest, which I considered to be totally justified, a significant event, which eventually caused an historical change in the law), are uneducated, illiterate, uninformed, a low-brow sector of the population, most of whom are unemployed anyway. Now the CGT, led by that racketeer, money-launderer Marxist Hugo Moyano, has called for a general strike for Monday 25 June, in rejection of President Macri’s decision to seek IMF financial assistance.
All these protests do is cause chaos for all those daily commuters, like me and other professionals/workers, who are trying to earn an honest living. Patrick Newton Capital Federal
A BIT OF MADNESS NEEDED?
Winston Churchill committed many mistakes during his public life, but his tremendous hits have left them pretty much forgotten. As we can see in recent film The Darkest Hour, the most important factor behind his successes was his great capacity to take difficult decisions in the worst moments, decisions which entailed enormous risks.
One of the principle reasons for the unrest felt these days by those of us who are betting on the success of Cambiemos is the impression that, up until this moment, there does not exist in our government an authentic will to take deepdown decisions, although these could involve important risks. Everything that is projected seems too lukewarm, and this translates into a sensation of weak leadership.
There is no reason to panic. What has happened during these past weeks is perfectly controllable. But I really would love to see the government hang up two large signs in the Casa Rosada, the same way as I did in a private company during the crisis at the beginning of this century, proclaiming that “Every successful enterprise requires a certain amount of madness” and “The worst decision is preferable to the best indecision.” Both phrases are of my authorship but they are not registered so, if the influential (in the government) Mr. Durán Barba decides to apply my suggestion, I promise not to sue him for plagiarism!
So, my friends, let us not be discouraged. After 70 years it was to be expected that this was going to be a protracted war, with victories and defeats along the way. And let’s see whether, besides being healthily critical, we could also learn to be somewhat more stoical in these hard times, following the formidable example of the British civilians in their very much harder “Darkest Hour” in the 1940s. Through this you could, in an important way, help in “our war” effort! Harry Ingham Capital Federal
CAGED KIDS?!
When I saw the images and heard those kids crying, I naively thought it was the preview of a movie, a horror movie.
I’ve always considered Trump a dangerous individual, clownish at times, always bossy and boasting of an ego as big as his country. But this family-splitting immigration policy is clearly the last straw.
Terrified children in cages, being torn apart from their parents? Can anybody give a reasonable explanation or justify this outrageous procedure? Is it humanly possible? What kind of monster can come up with this methodology? Who can go on supporting this mentally ill individual, whether they are Republicans or not? “
Don’t believe the press,” Trump and his Government officials warn us. And they keep saying that the “detention facilities” for these infants, are not really “cages.”
What difference is there between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, I wonder? Only the victims this time are not Jews but Latin Americans. And how does the rest of the world react? Isn’t there anything we can do to stop this horror? Or shall we just watch it passively, as if it were a scary movie? If we did, we would be to blame too. Irene Bianchi Ringuelet, La Plata irenebeatrizbianchi@hotmail.com THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE: PART XI Dear Sirs, Argentina was classified yesterday as ‘an emerging eEconomy’ by Morgan Stanley Capital International and furthermore received the green light from the IMF, for a massive stand by loan worth US$50 billion. Which reminds us of what the famous Brazilian economist Roberto Campos once said about our handsome country: “Argentina is a developed economy in the process of underdevelopment.”
Bust wishes, David Parsons Via email