• tintoryOP
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    11 months ago

    Felt like people aren’t talking about the IMF forcing austerity on Argentina

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      11 months ago

      If people (Americans) actually understood how capitalism and wealth extraction worked, they’d be discommoded.

    • burningmatches@feddit.uk
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      11 months ago

      People talk about it endlessly. And the rest of the time they talk about the IMF being too lenient (see Javier Milei). At the end of the day, Argentina’s problems are of its own making.

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      11 months ago

      Let’s be honest here, this is the 90th time, and they asked for this when Cristina whatsherface went mad with spreading cash to her faction.

      What we’re seeing here with th3 'opposite and equal reaction" is clearly horrible, but this is why corruption is so bad, it opens the door to far-right fascism.

      In b4 every ml says I’m defending fascists.

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      11 months ago

      IMF didn’t force anything. Argentina needed money and money comes with strings attached in terms of economic reforms.

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        11 months ago

        The thing is, for example, IMF recommend not to pursue the construction of gasoduct that will allow Argentina to sell LNG wich would provide dollars needed to pay such debt. How can that be?