[OT] Nation bashing

[Andrés]

First, no one made you guys sell out, if it really happened that way.

But it was made to sound so sweet back then.
Privatizations would give us more efficient services. Relatively small and weak local companies fusioned themselves with large multi-national ones.
Little did we know that all infrastructure and resources of those companies bought below their real price was just being emptied and sent back to the new owners home.

To be fair I must say that this was not only done by American companies but also by many european ones.
The great companies that control the world has grown beyond nationalities and here the “great power from the north” is most times associated with the USA.

Exchange rates were against us, our goods were too expensive and imported goods looked cheap. We were suffering a severe de-industrialization, exporting flour and importing cookies.
But we were too busy with all cheap imported goods we didn't have before that we didn't see it.
“welcome to the 1rst world” they said, and we were stupid enough to believe.

And second, if you have a surplus of food, and people are still going hungry, then you need to look a little closer to home.

If you were an Argentinean producer (assuming most of the producers are still Argentinean) would you gift your production to the poor or export it to high price paying foreign consumers?
Social help by a state that can barely pay the salaries of its own employees is insufficient and inefficient.