Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Dark Gray Suit With Pink Shirt

WITH STREET Alfonsin

The first memory I have of the pre-election is that with my friend Ricardo Carossino started talking about politics. It was when I learned that he was a Peronist. We had been classmates in a course of secondary (2 º. National in the Guemes El Palomar) five years earlier, but just at that moment I realized the difference between living in a dictatorship and start enjoying the sweet taste of democracy that was coming. When we talk about politics with my friend, but differed in terms of party-we wanted the two was the same, no more repression, free to walk the streets without fear of being asked for documents and anything you take more dough in the pockets of the people, education, health and good government. When I heard the phrase "With democracy you eat, cures and education ..." did not hesitate and went there. On 31 October morning we were all aware, the candidate of the cordial greeting of plain prose, had won the first general elections entirely without prescriptions in many years in Argentina. The months went by and the joy was completed quickly, which lasted a spring, the first democracy in 1984 where it was sunny, the street was ours and everything seemed possible and good. passed the plan (again) in spring, but the following year, and darker. The external debt grew rampant, the finance ministers seemed crazy teachers, without exceeding a little the script dictated by the IMF, the World Bank and some other creditor. Devaluing currency change again for the first time we thought our tickets were worth more than the dollar when they were not even pesos. One day we wake up to an uprising, with a surrender and an unfortunate phrase. "The house is in order ... Happy Easter." Finally the that was surrendered to the military president because the pose, just beginning, and it was. Another attempt to blow each of them and the advanced miliquitos several boxes carrying all before him on the TEG of the reality of Argentina and who lost points democracy was so fragile it, so docile. next day there was an attempt to seize the barracks at La Tablada and ended up being a tragedy of intrigue because the owners of the barracks finished slaughtering the assailants (there were even shooting) and they soon left several casualties of olive green. One evening out of the editor of the magazine Rock & Pop that remained in the Once neighborhood, heard screams and noise. There were people looting the stores, it seemed that soon would be by my side. I ran, I was maddened by the cries and noise of the broken glass behind me. Shortly after the early dismissal for not being able, not knowing and not dare, because we now know that the military pose the '80s did not involve a risk to the democratic system. democracy, that young and beautiful lady who gave us so much at first, in nearly four years a lady prostitute was made by an evil pimp, had stayed on the street and a train had passed over, too, besides having a lot of bad blood, indeed. Today is Wednesday, April 1. Coincidentally, a day of Wednesday. He died Raul Alfonsin, the first president of post-democracy "process." The famous greeting, that of RA stickers, oval with the colors of the flag behind "The man we need" , according to David Ratto, campaign manager and publicist. A good guy, a person who had the best intentions and the worst decisions. Which was recently voted as the best president since the return to democracy in Argentina, that speaks very poorly of those who succeeded him. Because Alfonsin intended to make things right, did not lack. But I can not stay with the "not let him." was hesitant in matters of state and did not maintain the strength of being the head of the three armed forces, did not cut the root of the first military uprising. Had it done so we had saved the following. Also economically excessive loyalty remained with the IMF raised its debt and devalued the national currency twice. Olivos Pact was the last trick that earned him the hatred of many and ended up devaluing as a Democrat. Here in Spain when you're a supporter of one or another character, political or artist said: "I like (X) but I'm more (Y )..." I have to say something like, I Alfonsín excites me like no one in '83 and voted for, but in '87 I was wondering what was all that, like a bolero fatal. So I liked Alfonsin, was not too bad, but I'm more of Arturo Illia, a president who would be good to include it in the polls for the best. An anecdote that when David Rockefeller met with him in Buenos Aires. told then President Illia he intended to open branches in Argentina Chase Manhattan Bank, owned. Illia tycoon replied: "It will not be able to be Mister, if you open the banks here will have more power than me, and that's not a good thing for the country ..." Illia Shortly after he was overthrown by the walrus Onganía, and new banks opened Rockefeller in never-never land of the south. The history of Argentina began to go wrong ever since.

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