tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post173370255085037726..comments2024-02-11T01:14:21.904-08:00Comments on SURVIVING IN ARGENTINA: Decadence in Argentina as it falls ApartFerFALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-17348383634934123282012-03-30T13:33:57.502-07:002012-03-30T13:33:57.502-07:00You have to know that Argentina is ruled not under...You have to know that Argentina is ruled not under a democracy buy under a "cleptocracy". Gov asaulted retirement funds, central bank reserves, and with the highest corruption level no money is enought to political voracity. If you can read spanish I recommend a book very explicit. It is named "La Maldicion Argentina" by Carlos Aga. As I read it, the unexplicable situation becomes clear and I understood why this big country is constantle steeping back.http://www.lamaldicionargentina.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-62529906326910301752012-03-28T21:16:02.147-07:002012-03-28T21:16:02.147-07:00I came from the usa to live here in Argentina beca...I came from the usa to live here in Argentina because my wife is from here, she told me it was a better place to raise our child and I bought it! Biggest mistake I ever made coming here. I ask her to go back and she insist in staying here don't understand the economy is so bad the corruption and the violence it's worst than Tijuana that's my hometown. My wife lied to me it's sucks over hereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-82953820627978177142012-03-27T21:29:09.523-07:002012-03-27T21:29:09.523-07:00Things aren't going to get any better for Arge...Things aren't going to get any better for Argentina either:<br /><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-03/D9TODGT00.htm" rel="nofollow">US drops trade preferences for Argentina</a><br /> <i>The United States dropped Argentina on Monday from its system of trade preferences, citing the South American country's failure to pay court-ordered damages of $300 million plus interest to two U.S. companies.<br /><br />Until Argentina pays up, the country no longer qualifies under a U.S. trade preferences law that enabled $477 million in Argentine goods to enter the United States duty-free last year, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said.<br /><br />Nearly all the world's countries get the U.S. preferences, which as of Monday apply as well to the Republic of South Sudan, Kirk announced. That leaves Argentina in the company of Syria, Belarus and the rest of Sudan as the only countries not eligible, the U.S. Trade Office said.</i><br />[...]<br /><i>Argentina hasn't paid the debt because it's desperate to stop capital flight after eating up $10 billion of its reserves last year.</i><br /><br />It's kind of nerdy, but the <i>Star Wars</i> quote come to mind - the more Kirchner tries to tighten her grip on foreign trade (and rapidly fleeing capital and foreign currency), the more they slip through her fingers...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-18370021015333042392012-03-27T17:05:07.627-07:002012-03-27T17:05:07.627-07:00Do you think that this is what we, in the States, ...Do you think that this is what we, in the States, have to look forward to? It is nearly impossible to purchase 10+ years of all needed supplies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-12848238118550369072012-03-27T00:17:06.203-07:002012-03-27T00:17:06.203-07:00I can relate to this post, as I spend about three ...I can relate to this post, as I spend about three months last year in Buenos Aires (& six months in Brazil), and was appalled by the lack of range of goods sold in stores (also in Brazil, to be honest).<br /><br />One product in particular comes to mind: candies.<br /><br />I follow a certain diet regiment, and only purchase candies on rare occasions, and the range of candy products is appalling in all of Buenos Aires stores (Carrefour included)...<br /><br />...nearly all of the brands were local, with few rare exceptions, such as Mars and Snickers.<br /><br />Not only that, but the quality of the local candies is really bad, with about every tenth candy being malformed and with defects to the coloring, something I don't come across in Scandinavia, almost ever, where the competition between manufacturers is wide open.<br /><br />Another thing, Brazil labels GMO products as such, whereas Argentina does not (to protect the local GMO farmers I'm sure)...and personally I will never use GMO products, so this was an important factor making food purchases in BA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com