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Sorry, but this is just a plain lie. First of all, a disclaimer, cuz everything about Argentinean politics tend to get ugly fast:
I'm not a fan of this government, but I just have to intervene here...
I think there are A LOT of things that could be better (corruption scandals, the whole mining business, poverty in the northern provinces, etc).
But still, I think that it's much much better than the previous ones that had taken us to the worst crisis of our history, while selling half of the country to foreign companies. And of course, the alternatives in the opposition are not better yet (Macri is just like Berlusconi without the sex scandals... unlike his father Franco, lol... and the ones frome the UCR are a joke. Binner may be an option though, but he has to prove it). Now, Having said that:
YES, the government is not telling the real inflation rate but given that the salaries are raised a 25-30% each year, for most of the population, there's really no difference. - If you have an inflation of 25%, but your salary raises 26%, you can buy the same amount of things, even when the crude numbers are higher -. The main objective of doing this, of course, is to react and counter the vulture funds who bought up a relevant part of the country's external public debt at extremely low prices (20-23%), a minimum portion of their nominal value and later attempted to cash them at nominal prize when the economic crisis devastated the country in 2001. There has not been a single case of someone sent to jail, for saying that the real inflation rate is 25% per year. Everyone says that in TV and other media (read right-wing newspapers like Perfil, Clarin, La Nacion, or watch almost any news channel, with the exception being Canal 7 -the state owned channel- but, hey... few people watch Canal 7). Yesterday, there was somebody in a TV program ( in channel 26 ) calling the president literally "crazy" and worse, and nothing happens. Even other woman from the opposition, debating with him, was surprised with the aggressive tone, telling him to respect at least the charge, if not the person. And he can say that in TV, simply because this is not a dictatorship, and there's free of speech. There's A LOT of exaggeration in the international mass media, because their main sources of information are the local mass media agencies, who happen to be "at war" with the government. If you still think otherwise, please, quote a case of someone being sent to jail for that. |