Angry farmers v an obstinate president

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As an expat who chose to live in Rosario I can only say the Farmer's rally was one of the greatest sights I have ever seen. A solution has to be found for her to back down gracefully. Mrs. K does not have a clue as to how to run the country and appears more interested in Gucci catalogs than government. As bad as she is though I do hope that she lasts through her term. If she resigns it will only set us back, politically, another 10 years. With such volatile politics it is too bad Argentina didn't choose a British style government with a prime minister who can be changed for lack of confidence. I love this country but it is a disaster. Now, with all of this she wants to build (or rather have a purportedly disreputable French firm build) a bullet train (for 4 BILLION dollars) from BA to Rosario and then to Cordoba. Hell we don't even have a decent highway between Rosario and Cordoba yet! BTW Rosario is the 2ND city in Argentina NOT the 3rd.


I hope this crowd of Argentinean agro-hooligans to give up its irrational protesting rallies!


Through this note I pleased asked for ending this current situation. Argentinians claim a solution, we dont want suffer further. Gov't is not interested to solve it. Quit taxes! we don't want to pay more. We are tired. Each time we pay further, the administration is worse. where do incomes go? thanks


Shame on our politicians! I cant't believe what they are doing to our country! The International community must be having fun of us! Not only we are not serious in our foreign politics, but what it's more shamefull is that instead of paying our debts we give them "shiddy" bonds that no one wants! They are governing for themselves and against the country itself, as always since Peron got to the power near 50 years ago and installed a totalitarian way of doing politics and lie to the people not to mention the political cost of beeing openly pro-nazi during WW II (what a shame). What it's happening in Argentina is not new, several politicians lied to the people and manipulate the press under the cover of different social flags only to achieve there own good. I'm young (20) but i can say for sure that God gave us a great country (we have al weather tipes, natural resources, pruductive farms, no religious problems, etcetera) but it's known that you can't have everything so he also gave us the worst people he could find.


It's amazing how a bad government, with no direction and very arrogant, can destroy the future of a whole nation. Roughly every 10 years Argentina's economy collapses into chaos, considering that in 2001 they had the last one, we can say they are 2 years away from the next disaster. Investors beware!


Nice one The Economist, keep them coming!!!
Thou this article is missing some information. i.e.: the executive power legislated the tax increase… that´s right in wasn´t introduce through congress or even discussed publicly, the executive just ruled out. The sort of thing you would expect in non democratic countries as Argentina certainly is.

Clari "The Economist" doesn´t sign articles so good luck getting it :), I guess this is a plus in this case, imagine what would happen to this good author if this government new exactly who he was....


indeed very good, but who has written this article? I need to know the author's name so i can use it with my students. regards



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