Crying For Argentina - 50 min Documentary

July 2003
Argentina was once one of the richest countries in the world -- so prosperous that people emigrated to it from Europe. Now, as everyone knows, its economy has imploded. But in the new Argentina, the little men are uniting to regain the economy for themselves. People have united together like never before. Factories have been taken over by the workers; senior administrative positions have been scrapped. Where the IMF and globalisation have spectacularly failed, a return to small scale interests might just be the saving grace for the fallen nation. A street level look at how people are trying to patch together their lives.

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[PABLINGAT1972]

Do not confuse Argentina with Mexico.

Dont be the typical ignorant north-american.Go to MC and keep getting fat.keep watching american-jew media and u will be even more blind.

14/88

[pmargozzi]

Los que hoy nos desprecian algùn dìa, no muy lejano van a venir sedientos a buscar AGUA.....Todo llega

[formworksucks]

The great depression is coming to Argentina within the next 2 years, guaranteed! First a run on the Peso, which will devalue it heavily, then runaway stagflation, capital flight and bank failures. People will lose all their savings, unemployment will hit double figures, there will be massive demonstrations, violent at times. The government will spend all of the central banks and pension fund reserves propping up the protectionist model only to bankrupt the country again. It's ground hog day.

[Indrius]

@Keinlicht The reason for globalization is obvious technological advances: travel, transportation, communication and flow of capital has never been so easy in the history of the civilization. The world just got way smaller. Bear in mind that state borders are arbitrary and constantly changing throughout the history. The logical consequence is that there won't be any arbitrary borders in the future. Now is this transition good for OUR generation in particular? Certainly not, there are problems.

[Keinlicht]

@Indrius Sure, but is there really any good reason for it to be that way? I don't think so.

[Indrius]

@Keinlicht by "great equalizer" I don't mean that it's "great" as in "good". What I mean is that the average income of a 1st world citizen has been declining while the average income of a 3rd world citizen increasing (China, India growth). The world is converging into a single monolithic market. But no doubt there are still huge gaps, neglected regions like Africa, mainly due to political instability and lack of order there, but that's another topic.

[Keinlicht]

@Indrius "a great equalizer"? If you can provide just one example where Globalization has done anything more than drive peasants off their land or make poorer the general population maybe I'd believe that.

Globalization of the "Market" economy is only going to make a small minority extremely wealthy. A global oligarchy, doesn't that sound pleasant.

[Indrius]

@Keinlicht Yes, it allows. It is also a great equalizer. I can see the same thing happening in Europe. Their standard of living has been falling for the last decade and they think if they protest their wages would suddenly rise to the level of what they had in the 90s. Too late, the manufacturing is already outsourced to China where people work 12 hours a day for pennies without social security and benefits. Western world workers just cannot compete with that.

[Keinlicht]

@Indrius Globalization = the process of allowing an economic elite which once only impoverished nations to impoverish the world.

[tubestick00]

just missed half the video playing snake.

[Shukria123]

Argentina used to be one of the richest countries in the world. And

then Peron fucked it up.

[eugelu11]

@Nicolenia72 es que la verdad creo que (y no es por defender la corrupcion, todo lo contrario) si tratase de gobernarnos un politico no corrupto los sindicalistas, y demas "agentes politicos" se lo comerian crudo. En mi opinion habria que cambiar todas las estructuras del pais para que funcione, no solo la cabeza visible

aclaro que todo eso fue mi opinion personal, con la que pueden no estar de acuerdo