Should I Let My Eyebrows Grow Before Waxing?

I really liked this post Martin in Homoeconomicus about attempts to launch a plan of industrial development in Argentina of the 1870s. watering was completed, the same way failed and became extinct at other times sought to industrialize historical, such as import substitution during the First World War or the Pinedo Plan of 1940 . In all these cases, prevailed in favor of free trade areas in Argentina continue to fulfill their role as "granary of the world."

Beyond the objective conditions that might have enabled the industrial development, social and cultural characteristics of the dominant sectors in favor of a behavior is clearly not "entrepreneur." In this article refers to a English economist Luis Olarte published in 1925 in Revista de Occidente, which was cited this year by Horacio Verbitsky and then Carlos Leyba .

"Everywhere you can create wealth, but none with the speed and simplicity of resources in America. And being so easy to create wealth there, it's all men, population of immigrants. Behind They have come so far without delay that it takes to leverage your efforts will: capital, technology. This is how the social tone of the Argentina-optimism, activity, safety in the future, disregard for spending. "

"In Argentina, spent enormous, spends far more than they spend in the same proportion of wealth in European societies. Generally, it is saved. Have many children, living with all the spending possible, boasts of having expensive jewelry, will visit Europe frequently. Everything is done generously, boldly, in the certainty that after everything has to fix, that the country will prosper and will cover, eventually, open gaps credit in the private economy. All this enormous expenditure, the exaggerated level of material life, characteristic of Argentina, are consequences. The first is the difficulty to form a superior culture .(...)"

"also requires its estimates of national independence. Argentina, while their men worked tirelessly to make compared to rising prices, has been resolved so far its cultural problem brokered the technical, industrial instruments and foreign methods. But he has scrounged up all these things at the expense of not doing nation, at the expense of its independence. Efforts have been made foreign engineers, foreign managers, foreign intellectuals, we have tried also foreign capital, foreign machines, foreign transportation. "

" Argentina is a barrage of other industrial countries that value, that subject to dependency and too economically decide their fate; owner of a magnificent land, rich in food and industrial raw materials eagerly demanded that Europe has not felt the need to look comprehensively the national body. As to create superior culture in a country of effort needed to create economic independence, is also needed for a significant proportion of national income . But Argentina, living in the capital and technology and markets of Europe, handed the reins of its economy to Europe, and also has ventured to share the fate of Europe, which is a random luck for the day tomorrow. Perhaps the Argentina need more than just thinking to produce the strong reaction it change its trends. "

" Argentina is a country that has successfully assimilated training and develop prodigiously aspects of modern civilization. His guidance has responded to its geographical and social circumstances, and ideological currents that have dominated European life in the period utility that evolution has taken place in Argentina. European utilitarianism was not, however, but a phase of European culture, and the secret of his success was unprecedented at other stages, much less practice, they discovered the fundamental laws of industrial activity and created the discipline of thinking . It was not possible to adapt to a phase secondary and subordinate to European culture without being spiritual crucibles depending on where that culture was brewing. But as the Spiritual crucibles were not transferable and Europe was limited to give a loan, and imposing certain allegiance, formulas, techniques and industrial items, Argentina was formed with that inevitable dependence. "

" Today Argentina "His intelligent men, at least, has aspirations to better control their body growth and to forge an economy and a superior culture of their own. you concerned about the influence of foreign capital is concerned about the creation of a national industry. In this way is to find several obstacles, the most feared of all the confidence that success creates in the ways of life and experienced, especially when seeking a life grata. "Leyba

As noted, these fragments can also serve warning against excessive optimism about the present time, with China occupying in some sense the ancient site of Europe.

What is certain is that it finishes the lie to the heads of hardened steel Argentina still idealize previous to 1943 (or 1930) and insist on blaming all the ills of the country to Perón and Peronism. As Artemio say, psssssss ...!


PS: Many thanks to all visitors and commentators, and my apologies for the outstanding answers, I say goodbye until Monday. Happy 2011 to everyone!

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The find of

A song that speaks of dignity, and a duet for rent balconies.





Olvidao Chacarera of

of your club am
Son of your leather
I Olvidao time in the bank
who stood by putting the chest. I'm working

Flor Silvestre foam

When the train is going, look at the way the moon Thinking
People may find my fortune.

My bofe swelled
When divided
from me do not remember, say they never saw me
That I'm not here, that I have no choice. I

Olvidao, the same that one day He rose
eating soil and saliva
Road to the sun, to heal the wounds.

A wound'm Looking

Teachers salary standing, city white chicks mature illuminating
That this payment.


I was left the ranch in the middle of fiao
Guacho to mate and stew invented
Hunger and rebellion grew in my hands.


I do not want more I want what is
my twist When I pack a destination tricked
Rise wimp who sang an Argentine here. I

Olvidao, the same that one day He rose
eating soil and saliva
Road to the sun, to heal the wounds.


Words and music: Duende Garnica

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sings Because I speak a Peronist


The outbreak of racism, intolerance and xenophobia that ignited much of the Buenos Aires population from Villa Soldati events put a black spot at end of the year. To which one must add the demonstration of irresponsibility, shame, misery, and so on., Etc. Head of Government of Mauritius Macri and sidings, encouraging and using that fear outbreak addition to their political objectives (if everything was an armed operation, which until now was denied, seems to have gone quite well.)

But racism and other ills of our society are not an invention of Macri. Are relatively hidden in times of calm, and jump to the surface to an appropriate stimulus.

Against this background, I noticed a grinding poverty in the majority responses of "Progressivism sanctimonious" to the situation unfolded in Villa Soldati and its consequences, beyond expressions of horror and condemnation of the xenophobic actions of PRO government.

seemed that in this situation, the most reactionary positions enjoyed an overwhelming "victory culture." For what can you say "liberal" to someone who would emerge because he fears the worst reactions to the "dark" will be installed in the back of his house?

occurred to me that the answers to this dilemma was to be sought elsewhere and did not make much sense to look for specific solutions if it was not clear the essential concept that is facing a problem of this type. And for that I turned to the thought of a Latin American leader closely tied with Juan Domingo Perón: General Omar Torrijos. A book edited by Eudeba in 1973 that collected several of his speeches, here's a snippet:


"(...) I ask, simplifying the task of this government in three words: What is our mission? What is our objective? is the same objective, the mission of you, but not in an environment within a community, but within a framework that is border as a backdrop, a whole country. And there we are, gentlemen, because are about convinced that it is impossible to achieve a transformation from top to bottom pressing . If she does not have its base of support at home, in the neighborhood of the community, this transformation can not be guaranteed. And so we are engaged in social infrastructure programs, agrarian reform, development of the Community, leaders discover because a project is as large or as effective as the quality and magnitude of the beings who run it .

And every time we find a boy of those strangers, every time we discover a community leader, every time we discover a man with driving under natural conditions, is an asset that we acquired. is a man who, after being subjected to a process, training, it is returned to the community to transform their thinking. are amazing results in this area are achieved with the mere presence of a man who, with good will, with the necessary knowledge and that love has to put you in the projects and companies that are entrusted, is dedicated to social work.

(...) The Government was struggling for a long time to relocate certain neighborhoods of emergency, but the tactic was not followed correctly. It wanted to force and convince anyone to force another to do what is impossible. And finally comes the moment you remove it, or he kills you. Now we're getting all the surrounding towns to relocate to the city, suburbs or emergency calls, only in the presence of a community leader

.(...) I would like to take the first settlement founded. There would change. Says an old proverb that "honey you take the defendant to prison bars" . The man used to living in such miserable conditions, almost subhuman, that even gets to make love to this mode of existence and look askance at anyone who wants to change their way of life. And you know from experience. We often receive ingratitude of those who, precisely, are receiving the benefit. They are not to blame. His horizon is contained within the four walls of his ranch and there he is happy semi-animal in that life you lead. So look to the leader of Community Development as the man who comes to disturb, to bother a system of life which for them means everything, and it means everything, because they know no more. Agrarian reform is a nice example of how to feel safe, and the presence of a leader has totally changed the mentality of this man.

To us, without further financial assistance, we are finding a huge success, which often takes on characteristics of a miracle.

These days I said a farmer from Hato de Jesus, Veraguas province, which was paid by the Agrarian Reform land. I asked, "Why pay?", And said, "No I know, but when one feels safe, the earth as it produces more and general look, we've harvested fifty thousand handfuls of rice. "slapping is a measure of the peasant, which would be like five hundred quintals is for them an exorbitant amount (...). That is precisely what got the presence of a community leader. I am convinced that if not through such efforts no country is able to change their structure, or break their molds, and indeed, no country could ever make progress. "(...)

General Omar Torrijos, Panama's Battle, EUDEBA-Free Stock Latin America and United, Buenos Aires, 1973 21-26.


course, this is not intended as a panegyric of Torrijos but to recover his thought and conception of social promotion. Beyond the enormous differences between the current reality of Argentina and Panama of his time, demonstrates an attitude absolutely Torrijos Peronist going to the core of social problems: the dignity of man, from below, from their own reality. Without neglecting the criminal aspects and issues of marginalization in general, including the fight against those who profit from misery and needs of others, do not forget where is the root of the problem: the dignity of the individual. And for that no need for progressive theoretical ruminations too deep. With Peronism in its deepest meaning, and plenty enough.

PS 1: Take this step as a tribute to the Panamanian people, 21 years unpunished crime against all of America.

PS 2: Happy Holidays to all visitors of this blog!

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Behind the scenes

and absurd view of the painful events of Villa Soldati, I remembered something I witnessed some years ago (Anibal Ibarra was still the Head of Government of the Autonomous City) and that stuck with me as a lesson in reality. More valuable than long hours of socio-political disquisitions of philosophy, or coffee chats.

was noon and Pueyrredón Avenue to 100, compared Once station, next to the curb had a string of street vendors with their merchandise covered rugs next to one another. All sellers: men, women, young, old, with the same humble appearance and an apparent common origin, Peru.

In it, a gray-haired man with long hair (appearance and accent rather locals) who paced the sidewalk vendors told: "Raise the inspectors coming around." All obeyed the order, and each with its bulge turned the corner of Bartolomé Mitre and there they were, waiting.

Indeed, a few minutes came a municipal truck. He stopped just where they had been sellers, and "coincidentally" the inspectors found a vendor that had not raised their merchandise and was installed on Pueyrredón. An older woman, petite, which obviously was not "fixed" with the "protector." Despite their requests and protests, the inspectors seized him his merchandise, and do not remember if she got into the van. Meanwhile, just around the corner, the gray-haired man with long hair and the vendors who responded to him watching the scene between fun and impatient, waiting for the time the inspectors were so can be reinstalled in the village of Pueyrredón. In no time the inspectors came to look around the corner.

Finally, once the van went all quickly returned to normal. I told him what had happened to a couple of friends who had a room in a gallery in the block, and I replied that I had seen was an everyday thing.

This is a very minor story, no doubt. But one thing to read reports of trafficking or exploitation of immigrants, and quite another to witness live and live how things work.

I could not but remember the gray-haired man long when I read about the actions of characters like this . Or about these allegations .

And tying thread joining this episode Avenue Pueyrredón and what I was seeing these days, I had a deep distrust of abstract liberalism and right-thinking mentality that mourn "the poor" and believe in magic or easy solutions ignoring the background of the case. I also stayed a couple of certainties:
- Racism and xenophobia are not only reprehensible but also signs of stupidity, nothing else is re-victimizes those who are already victims of trafficking and exploitation of their needs and their misery. Except to point out to victims, the intention is to hide and protect those responsible and / or beneficiaries of such situations.
- Faced with the danger of a situation like that particular term, silly confrontations and loss of life, a responsible government (which is not the Autonomous City) would have to act on prevention as soon as possible. For the top, back, side or front of the desperate and needy, there are many sons of bitches getting or waiting to take advantage of the situation. And these are not flag.






PS: I decided to delete a comment, I understood irrelevant to my point in the post, partly motivated by this note Lucas Carrasco. If the person who made the comment he acted in good faith and has nothing to do with reports in the note, I apologize. But in any case, these views and have plenty of room in front of cameras TN.

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While trying to assimilate the tremendous revelations of Wikileaks, I keep remembering the wonderful time lived in the DC Paco Urondo Tuesday. Nor stopped to thank Laura for the invitation, and to all who made the spirit of Cuchi Leguizamon to be forthcoming with his music, his poetry and his genius.

Among these artists was Lorena Astudillo . Here I bring a guest class, with a huayno of Chacho Echenique.

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By the beard of St. Patrick! The price of bronze

now is Ireland's battered by the economic crisis and the victim in turn of the impositions of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Irrelevant recall how some prestigious figures insisted on presenting the "Celtic Tiger" as an example worthy of emulation (*) . It is recommended that note Alfredo Zaiat that citing this book Sevares July stresses that along with many policies aimed at growth, Ireland is allowed incubating the crisis by opening the capital account and the resulting financial capital inflows that fueled speculative "bubble."

also worth reading this article our recent visitor Paul Krugman in the New York Times. And a note that struck me and motivated me to translate exclusively to visitors of this blog. Came in not Página/12 or Argentine Time, but The Guardian London.


Ireland should "Argentina's"

by Dean Baker "When a team of firefighters or doctors performed a rescue, the victim is in a better position as a result. This is less clear when the rescuer is European Central Bank (ECB) and the IMF .

Ireland is currently supporting unemployment rate of 14.1% . As a result of bail conditions that require more cuts in government spending and tax increases, the unemployment rate almost certainly grow . It is likely that the Irish people come to wonder how their economy would be had they not been rescued.

pain being inflicted on Ireland by the ECB / IMF is completely unnecessary. If the ECB is dedicated to making available loans at low rates Ireland interest, a mechanism entirely within their powers, then Ireland would have no serious budget. Its huge projected deficits result primarily from the combination of high interest costs on its debt, and the result of operating at economic production levels are well below full employment - both results that can be attributed largely to the ECB.

worth remembering that the Irish government was a model of fiscal discipline before the economic collapse. had high budget surpluses during the 5 years preceding the crisis began . The problem of Ireland was certainly not a government spending out of control, was a reckless banking system fueled a huge bubble. economic Wizards at the ECB and the IMF could not see the bubble or not they thought it was worth mentioning.

The failure of the ECB or the IMF to take action to stop the bubble before the crisis has not become shy to these international financial institutions on the use of a heavy hand for now demanding conditions. The plan is to impose a rigid austerity, requiring that much of the workforce in Ireland will suffer unemployment in the years to come, as a result of the failure of his bankers and the ECB.

While it is often argued that these institutions not political, just someone clinically dead could still believe this. The decision to make workers of Ireland, together with workers in Spain, Portugal, Latvia and other countries pay for the recklessness of bankers in their countries is entirely political. There is no economic imperative to say that workers must pay, this is a political decision imposed by the ECB and the IMF.

This should be a huge warning flag for progressives and, indeed, for anyone who believes in democracy. If the ECB sets conditions for a bailout package will be very difficult for an elected government in Ireland reverse these conditions. In other words, the issues on which Irish voters may decide will probably be trivial in importance, under conditions to be imposed by the ECB.

There is no serious argument in favor of a central bank is not responsible for their actions. While no one expects or wants that parliaments address monetary policy in the micro, the ECB and other central banks should be clearly accountable to elected bodies. It would be interesting to see how they can justify their plans to bring to Ireland and other countries at a rate of unemployment in double digits for years to come.

The other point that should be taken into account is that still a relatively small country like Ireland have options. Specifically, they could leave the euro zone and declare its defaulted debt. This is not even remotely the best option, but if the alternative is an indefinite period with double-digit unemployment, then leave the euro and declare a default appears much more attractive.

The ECB and the IMF insist that this is the way to disaster, but his credibility at this point is close to zero. There is a clear precedent. Back in 2001, the IMF was urging Argentina to take half of increasingly stringent austerity. As Ireland, Argentina had also been the neoliberal model student cast before going into difficulties.

But the IMF may change your mind quickly. His austerity program lowered the GDP by almost 10% and pushed the unemployment rate well above the double digits. In late 2001, it was politically impossible for the Argentine government agree more austerity. As a result, allegedly broke the unbreakable link between its currency and the dollar, and declared a default on its debt .

The immediate effect was to worsen the economy, but the second half of 2002, the economy was growing again. This was the beginning five and a half years of solid growth until the global economic crisis has left its mark in 2009.

The IMF, meanwhile, did everything he could to sabotage the Argentina, which became known as "the curse with A" (1). Even projections used trout (2) that the predictions consistently underestimated growth in Argentina, with the hope of undermining confidence in its evolution .

Ireland should take lessons from Argentina. Breaking the euro would have consequences, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the pain of the break would be less than the pain of staying in the euro area. More Moreover, the mere fact of putting the issue under discussion is likely to make the ECB and the IMF take a more moderate position.

What the people of Ireland and every country must realize is that if they give their agreement to play by the rules of the bankers, they will lose. "

(1)" The 'A word' " in the original, as the analogy of "the 'F word'" and others.

(2) In English, "bogus." It seemed the most appropriate equivalent.

Note: I thank the reporter Telma Luzzani for giving notice of The Guardian noted in The National Radio Booting AM .

PS: (*) Well, yes, irrelevant. Orlando Barone took pains .

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If any had under the column "Mitre" published by the historian Luis Alberto Romero on the official commemoration of the battle of the Vuelta de Obligado, was the result very good replicas by some "neorrevisionistas" as he disparagingly called those who are reviving a national and popular look on our history. The most significant in my view, that of Sergio Wischñewsky in Página/12 and the Hernán Brienza Argentine Time. In the blogosphere, Abel took the matter under two very good posts in which I spoke with some comments. In particular, I remembered the position of General San Martín on the attitude of the head of the Confederation of Argentina to the Anglo-French raid of 1845 (see also about this post of Ezekiel). And by the way, I decided to revive some notes I had stored on the Liberator and the uses and methods of construction of the figures and facts of history.

reflection I had emerged, was what was the way in which the figure of San Martín, who died far from their land, ostracized and forgotten by his countrymen, was enough years after his physical disappearance to an almost undisputed lie the remains of our history.

The issue has a funny story because the core liberal concrete terms "national" in the decades of 1850 and 1860 was also responsible for founding our official history. I mean Mitre and Sarmiento , especially the founder of the "gallery of doctrine" with works dedicated to Belgrano and San Martín. A History of the elect and reprobate (the largest of all, no doubt, Juan Manuel de Rosas). A civilian hero, "the man who was ahead of its time," Bernardino Rivadavia. A military hero, José de San Martín. But this group had very strong reasons to make reproaches to San Martin, some by historical events and at the time and other causes still very new. To cite just a few:

- Disobedience of orders of the Board (Pueyrredón, Rondeau) to return with his troops from Cuyo, abandoning plans liberation of Chile and Peru to fight the federal montoneras Artigas, López and Ramírez .

- Your attitude to the Anglo-French blockade the Río de la Plata, and support for Rose's attitude, embodied in the legacy of his sword.

Interestingly, in his History of San Martín , Mitre refers to this attitude disqualified. No wonder: he and Sarmiento was part of the emigrants who supported foreign intervention, and one of those mentioned in the famous phrase (see here ):

"... but what is not I can conceive is that Americans have a spirit unworthy of joining the foreign party to humiliate their country and reduced to a condition worse than that suffered in times of English rule, such a felony or the grave can make it disappear ... " Mitre

reproaches the Liberator's "lack of political vision" and its attachment "obsolete" to the idea of \u200b\u200bindependence. Of course it does in his elaborate and convoluted language, former president Anillaco native had said more directly: "remained in the '16 '...

An almost unknown book of enormous value to "think the Bicentennial" is certainly "Young and old men of the Silver of Juan Bautista Alberdi, also shows the author in a facet" pre-revisionist "fairly muted by those who exalt him as hero of liberalism. In that book Alberdi shred the History of Belgrano and Facundo , and "makes mincemeat historically Mitre and Sarmiento" (words of Arturo Jauretche).

The volume contains a couple of letters sent Sarmiento Alberdi and give an indication of how it started raising San Martín to the "official procerato."


"XXXIII - San Martín Sarmiento described in a letter to me"

"Yungay, July 19, 1852. " ... Desmadryl makes a Pantheon of famous people of Chile: the work is finished . You need a biography of San Martín, and you may make brief, spiritual, saissisante [compelling] , instructive. San Martin was a victim, but their departure was an atonement. Their violence, but above all, the shadow of Manuel Rodriguez, stood up against him and emptied. Do you emphasize this fact so beware. This righteousness silent but adamant that America walked away forever. Today is the outlawed Rosas. Its affinities are found in the support provided to the tyrant for what you said: by the feeling of revulsion abroad. The army of the Andes rose up in Lima for general reasons, but the feeling, the passion efficient, was the resentment caused the Argentinians, the be stripped of its flag, that is, their national glory, to hoist the new flag liberated states, giving condottieri air. He also rebelled against his government in Las Tablas, and his army rebelled against him. Are you in charge of the job? Fundemos once our historic tribunal. Let's just stop being apologists but how much evil has been committed. San Martín, punished by opinion, American expelled forever, forgotten twenty years, and restored by the laity, Montt, the doctor, the lawyer, is a worthy and useful lesson. "Having become

I refused to write with conditions imposed in my opinion, Sarmiento wrote me this:

"Yungay, September 2, 1852. "... I pointed you to write the biography of San Martín, because had you done before implying that justice could be done now, etc.. While not my intention to be a withdrawal, because I would not advise anyone anything but honorable, I thought eternal praise of our historical characters, fabulous all, is shame and condemnation our . - Sarmiento. "

Juan Bautista Alberdi, Large and Small Men del Plata , Ed Punto de Encuentro, Buenos Aires, 2007, p. 152-153.


Finally, it was not Alberdi who wrote the biography of Bartolomé Mitre St. Martin but that did not make it brief. The epilogue to the perhaps intended to establish the historical court asked Sarmiento, it does pass the bill to the Liberator.

"The character of San Martín is one of those that are imposed on the story. His action is prolonged in time and its influence is transmitted to posterity as a man of conscious action. The germ of an idea the incubator, which springs from the bowels of the native soil, is deposited into your soul, and is the champion of that idea. As a general hegemony Argentina first, and then Chile and Argentina, is the herald of the fundamental principles who have given their international constitution to America, cohesion to its component parts, and balance their independent states. With all his intellectual shortcomings and his political mistakes, with only limited and specific genius, with his military school more methodical than inspired, and despite their faintness in the course of his life worked , is the man of action more deliberate and far-reaching well balanced that has produced the South American revolution. True to the maxim that ruled his life: "It was what should be" and before that was not to be preferred to 'be nothing'. So live in immortality. "

Bartolomé Mitre, Historia de San Martín, Ed Land Argentino, Buenos Aires, 1950, p. 594.


Obviously, the bronze San Martín not left free.


PS: if there was anything to say about Luis Alberto Romero, Ezequiel said in a masterful and here here.

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We are living times to read and hear is nonsense and irresponsible statements everyday thing, and one tends to see diluted their sense of wonder.

But some gems they leave one thinking. For example, when the radical deputy says Aguad Oscar in the 2011 budget debates, which "who does not want the government budget is" (when the intentions of the opposition have been known for months, see here) and "These policies represent the model has failed" .

While recognizing the validity of many observations that he can make to the current economic policy (I recommend about this article Carlos Leyba) one wonders on what basis the deputy measured Aguad failure, or what the successful model you have in mind to replace the existing.

Or, to learn some speech at the annual conference of the UIA, as the manager of Federico Ledesma Nicholson when he says "The power of the market to generate wealth and expand freedoms is unmatched" , one is reminded of the global crisis still going on, think about the destructive power of the "market" and is pondering whether we want to again put the dog. Or if this is only a nostalgic event.

In the latter case and as a remedy for homesickness, bring a document that already has a few years and that many people would rather read, perhaps to help jog your memory.


"It is imperative to correct the course"

"It insists on presenting to society the image of a thriving industrial sector, in the process of modernization and expansion, which would only being marginalized, those companies, longing for old times are not adjusted to new rules established by the current plan and seek to live under the shelter of a generous protection than the place apart from foreign competition. There is talk of increasing industrial exports and imports of capital goods-would-joint showing a jump of competitiveness. "

" It further states that most of the "duties" that require the process industry in the region and the world, have already been made, except for labor reform, which did not materialize is passing on to Parliament. "

" The reality is quite different. "
" consumption levels obtained the plan, compared to 1989/90, a horse of a growing and dangerous trade deficit financed by debt and the completion of major state assets, put up a smokescreen to the devastating effects of an open industry-although necessarily can not become what we qualified at the time as "a tightrope without a net experiment and without training", except for those sectors that the government put sheltered from foreign competition. "

" That openness was enhanced by distortion of relative prices, which from the very beginning of the program outright disadvantageous conditions placed on the industry to face aggressive competition from abroad. "

"Under these conditions there was a marked and progressive fall of national manufacturing value added."

"spent the foot" deregulatory "and involved tax reductions in fiscal pact gave him everything they could give, but the problem of relative prices is still there. This, despite the drastic adjustments carried out by companies and certain level of investment growth in some branches, which may not achieve short-term productivity gains to close the competitiveness gap commented. "

"Now that the smoke is dissipating, the reality is emerging:
- A list of industrial lush closed, bankrupt, broken or immersed in laborious and uncertain process in accordance with its creditors.
- Industries heavily indebted, with both the financial sector to the Treasury, and face serious difficulties in sustaining its credit spreads still paying very high real rates.
- Branches entire production that have been invaded by the external supply, as at these prices it is better to import than to produce and invest.
- High rates of unemployment that are fed to a large extent, the industry's layoffs. "

" The issue is particularly critical for the segment of small and medium industries, he has not even been able to benefit in the recent past for its inability to access foreign financial markets, the exceptionally low level of international interest rate. These difficulties are enhanced in the interior by the strong attachment of the industries located there with the agricultural crisis and regional economies, the highest level of interest rates and prices of basic services. "

" The industry, therefore, is being pushed to a dead end. is said-and the truth is that it appears as extremely difficult, there is no possibility of changing the exchange rate. Nor, given the commitments made in the Mercosur-an initiative that must be defended at all coast, may be amended tariffs and rebates from 1 January 1995, and paid the customs union under difficult competitive conditions in relation to regional partners. New tax cuts Fiscal Pact type of financing difficulties faced by the Treasury. "

" Overall, it appears that the country is inhibited, for economic policy and influence key economic variables. "

" So, being on the horizon is only a traumatic alternative, socially unacceptable to the UCR and highly questionable from the standpoint of its effectiveness: a severe recession with the consequent fall in wages throughout the economy. But this fall will occur, anyway, by way of the facts in a context of brutal unemployment, if nothing is done. "

" Rising unemployment to levels not known to our society and an unsustainable trade deficit begin to question no future stability. "

" urge, then, correct course. It should redirect the social and economic process of recovering economic policy instruments in pursuit of a comprehensive rethinking of the ways and times to allow the successful integration of our industry in the region and the international markets. "

" For this to be possible it is necessary to achieve levels of political and social consensus needed as never before now, given the overwhelming weight of the constraints presented by this reality that must be sincere. The market alone will not solve such a serious situation. "


Radical Civic Union - National Committee
Manuel Cywin - Raul R. Alfonsin

(Requested published in Clarín, p. 11, Sept. 2, 1994 on the occasion of the Industry Day.)


PS: Actually, the most sensible words Meeting UIA last Thursday I found the consultant's No. 1 foreign policy of President of Brazil, Marco Aurelio Garcia:

"We need an industrial policy of state intervention, not free market."

" The policy has to be different than in the past, with the highest incidence of the education system, and that is awarded by the State. "

" We need a policy of solidarity and intelligence production, because no one can live well if the neighbors do not .

But apparently not welcomed too.

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More relevant than ever

"A physical structure of a country dependent on a corresponding cultural superstructure designed to prevent the knowledge of this dependence, so the thought of the natives ignore the nature of the drama and can not devise new solutions impossible until they know the evidence on which it must operate and the procedures as belonging to their own circumstances of time and place. " Arturo

Jauretche, the prophets of hate

The top
(*) is a phrase that should certainly keep in mind when reading a Joaquín Morales Solá , To John Carlin or even a Nobel when he speaks or writes things that he was not awarded (to name but a few).

When I started this blog last 4 ½ years, I dedicated Jauretche Arturo (Jorge A. Sabato well) and I see with joy that the name of Don Arturo is much more effective then, but still is a delicious way to go in the retrieval and update their thinking ( reread this wonderful note that he dedicated Mario Wainfeld, or listen in the video that opens the post).

met last Saturday's birth 109 years Don Arturo. Today there seems to be reborn in much of the youth's passion and enthusiasm for political activism, his evocation is also a lifelong activist for national and popular causes. And it should serve to remind us that the militant should not give up the critical eye and with being a mere repeater of slogans, but the passion for activism include a passion for knowledge of reality and to unravel the mechanisms of oppression and domination . Go here Jauretche sketch he made of his disciple and friend Salvador Ferla.

"Jauretche had as Sarmiento, a stern countenance, an expression acidic, with knitted brows and a feline look, concentrated and stabbing, but were signs of intelligence and character, confused as to its sensitivity, which had an appreciable degree. Behind this tough-looking man is hiding a fine and tender, which I know in a personal way. It had a sense of camaraderie (rare in the intellectual, usually jealous and smug) product no doubt of its militant fervor.

His writing style was plain, folksy, conversational, without polish or formal dedications, and so much to entertain as to facilitate understanding of their arguments and uses the parable of the Gospel, he used the story, where the idea is enlightened by the experience and character does smiling effect by reference to particular circumstances and protagonists .(...) I saw him as a father figure as the ideal candidate for a lifetime senate seat if such had existed between us senate. (A senator-was his greatest political ambition for 10 years Peronist without success by how difficult it was to submit it to the vertical). He imagined a distant future as a venerable old man with a white beard in the style of Carlos Guido y Spano, who would go to him for advice because I knew by intelligent, gaucho and older. From such an Argentine who was killed May 25. Might be a post May 25, but fate was kind to him, and wanted it to be this May 25, 1974 to save the bitterness of those years of darkness that followed.

Shortly before dying, I called. I was worried about his illness and overwhelmed by the situation. I expressed sadness and bewilderment at the turn events were taking. To have witnessed the years of destruction and degradation would have roared from any platform, from exile, or the silence of his "disappearance" or have died of grief. Because this tax country, with more years of practice and perseverance on the job that Don Lisandro de la Torre, loved passionately to the country, he felt as his own and suffered a wound. So is present and valid. "

" Arturo Jauretche: think nationally. " Peace and Justice, May 1983.

(From the selection of texts Salvador by Arturo Ferla Navy for the magazine United , scanned by Digital Croqueta .)

PS: The same selection, this paragraph of Ferla on the performance of Don Arturo after the 1955 coup, is priceless and even useful to help think about the current situation :

"Jauretche dispensed Perón's speech and analyzed their deeds. Radiographed while the "Liberating Revolution", laying bare their motives hidden. And was Professor of common sense. He said that option had not been between Peron and the archangel Gabriel, but between Peron and his enemies. And that assessment of Peronism should be compared with other governments and not to an ideal pattern. Peron was criticized, I would add, from absolute freedom, absolute efficiency of absolute ethics, evaluating it from an ahistorical limbo. Conversely, Arturo taught to distinguish big from the small, contingent of the transcendent, the importance of the anecdotal, the kickback of treason, illegal fowl thieves countries. There in the realm of facts and the comparison is where Peronism was vindicated and "freedom" was disqualified. "

" the political drama of contemporary Argentina ", Ed Place, September 1985, pg. 261.

( Note: I think the "choice between Peron and the archangel Gabriel" is a creation of Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz also said Abel . Similarly, the authorship is not important.)


( *) Jauretche With this phrase, Gutiérrez Guillemo submission opens republication of the journal Anthropology 3rd. world, conducted by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA. Sent me a great friend who I am immensely grateful.

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On Friday November 5 at 19 pm, the film will be screened :

"The Resisters"

with the participation of the director, Alejandro Fernández and Mouján protagonists.

Peronist resistance activists, now over 70, remember their clandestine struggle against the "Liberating Revolution" of 1955 - renamed as "The Shot" - and still claim to be resistant. Recorded testimonies of former members of the resistance in the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Tucuman and Cordoba.

Direction and editing: Alejandro Fernandez Mouján.

Production: Sebastian Mignogna and Eva Lauria, and Marcelo Céspedes as associate producer.

Research and Production: Ottone and Martiniano Ricardo Cardoso.

Cultural Center Francisco "Paco" Urondo
May 25th Floor 221 - CABA
urondo@filo.uba.ar
4342-5922


Note: For more information, reread this post .

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Invitation to militancy

First came the unspeakable murder of Mariano Ferreyra, and then the sudden death of Nestor Kirchner. Two events that occurred in Argentina society, and that hit me just as I was trying to get the look of the current national and focus on international, who had been largely ignored by our media and does not happen through a lull chicha.

between the two events appeared this paper serve to Paul, to be soft, I caused embarrassment and made me wonder how low can drop a journalist. At the same time, via Twitter I read some comments of the Brazilian political scientist Emir Sader referred to "Dirty Blogs (Blogs sujos) that caught my attention. Digging a bit I found among others this post I tried translating the most part, or at least convey its concepts (the Google translator is not very helpful). Here is what I got.


Dirty Bloggers - the thorn in the old media

Posted by Saulo Machado
The attack on blogs and bloggers is scoring this season, appears to have emerged in recent years.

When the PSDB candidate [José Serra] spoke of "Dirty Blogs" in the week to be held the First Meeting of Progressive Bloggers was not by chance. He knew that the reactions of the posts to the baseness of the means of communication and outreach that they were having with the increase - even shy - digital inclusion could generate a demonstration against plans to the media concentrates.

The plan had already transpired, but had been operating. It was lifting the ball - with alarming headlines, scandals, etc. - o p members of the PSDB's campaign goal for the headers to impact of the "complaints." The difference is that before there was no referee. It was a match with a team doing an offside goal, coming with the end caps and, beyond that, prompting the fans to be pitied.

When blogs started to make a contrast to the old press committed to the conservative sectors of society, the attacks began.

The first campaign of disqualification Estadão wine. Printed on its pages, articles questioning the reliability of the information posted by bloggers. Disqualifying journalists who use the blogosphere to engage in business or extend it after work, and other actors who often use their free time to contribute to the democratic process at local or national.

It goes without saying that this attack was foiled, generating protests from bloggers and Internet users. Later

this and other papers went to assign a space on your site for journalists blogs "truth." What! The blog was not something primary, amateurism, "macaques"?

Yes it was! But journalists of these media are journalists with "p" capital. Have reliable sources to speak of what they know and what we do not know, besides the most important thing have the power! Press freedom is theirs and nobody takes them out.

These attributes are too abstract! How could they stand out from those bloggers who previously could be conditioned to a monkey? How to have more readers than a large group, but disqualified and no property to speak up about what he knows? Very

simple! Since they chose the candidate who talked about such a "Unionist Republic," which he deals with adjectives to those bloggers!

The "genius", as Paulo Henrique Amorim , so then he should have thought of bloggers meeting + meeting in Sujinho + progressive.

Bingo! Dirty Blogs [sujos] they charge money from the government! daily headlines in the media concentrates, [etc.].. (...) So far

[Serra] did not give the name of such posts dirty, so far only done what is characteristic: change of figures between the campaign and traditional media. The ball lifted and the header does not always follow an order, in this case is reversed and begin to appear called "Bloggers camaraderie" to support all such nonsense, including the fallacy of the federal government money.

Serra must have forgotten what activism is what I wrote above to classify the original bloggers, dirty, whatever you want them to call. These bloggers are not co-opted or paid for shielding the government or attack opponents with meanness applications. This kind of attitude and methods, in fact, part of campaigns that say camaraderie, perfume.

The candidate also could recall the important role of these bloggers deny published assumptions as facts, in running after the complaints in the newsgroups, etc.

For example, it was through bloggers who false tab Dilma the candidate was unmasked.

(...) All I get a glimpse into this campaign is a sinking candidate and, with it, a dozen journalists who have invested heavily in this crusade of meanness and attacks.

Venezuelización ? Only if part of the old media, unfortunately, seem not to want to end this escalation fundamentalist!

(The illustration, taken from here)


PS 1: Any similarity to what happens in Argentina is pure coincidence or not ?

PS 2: is highly recommended interview, Emir Sader tells how the mainstream media try Brazilian Lula, who his colleagues are tired of Argentina presented as "statesman."

PS 2: Take this opportunity to express my joy at the great triumph of Dilma Rousseff , president-elect of Brazil. Parabéns!