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by firstOrder 4376 days ago
* Argentinian workers begin organizing, get better pay, get Argentinian resources into hands of Argentinian people * CIA and US military help organize a coup, help kill off opposition to dictatorship * Dictatorship loads on tons of debt * Decades later, US international powers invoked to force Argentinian people to pay off debts incurred by the dictator who the CIA and US military imposed on them

And people wonder why Saudi nationalists flew planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center...

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disregarding the last point, which I think is rather disrespectful, you have a good point. The open veins of latin america is a good read for those who are interested
I've been actually trying to figure out when the bonds were actually issued. Can you point me to a source? You seem confident that the bonds at issue were issued by the government under Jorge Videla, which would mean not before 1981, but I'm not sure how you figured that out.
You are a psychopath and ignorant of the facts.