OT- Argentina, what a country!

[Andrés]

Our grandparents came from Europe, with the hope of a better future. Now that hope is gone and we’re running away back to Europe, the USA or any country serious where you can hope to have what you earn working.
Argentina has the natural and human resources to be one of the richest countries in the world.
The only war during the Last century was the useless Falklands conflict. (I can tell you about that from our pov later.)
Argentina hasn't been devastated by war, but it has been devastated by a government that systematically and deliberately stole our money for decades.
Politicians, judges, syndicates, banks, powerful and monopolic companies, they are all part of the same mafia-like political class.
A political class with roots in the previous military dictatorship, and that reaches all levels of power.
What happened with privatized companies (phones, airlines, trains, ect.)? Instead of running them, the foreign companies that bought them (below their real price) systematically sold their infrastructure and took the many away (giving some politicians their piece).

If they are in trouble now, is only because they've stolen too much and our money is running out.

A good thing is that the media is with the people and against that political caste. (even if there are powerful multi-media companies that dominate the market and have strong bonds with the government, that we know manipulate what they publish)

The government was running out of money, and said they needed to borrow our money from the banks to keep the country running.
They said we had to keep our money in the county, that money on foreign banks will not come back to ourselves. We trusted them, that was our mistake.
Where do you think their money is? Safe off country of course.

Mid class does not exist any more. We’re all poor. There are the ones that have very little and the ones that have nothing.

Latest restrictions to bank operations were a desperate attempt to save the remaining banks.
BTW most of them are foreign, they were supposed to be more trustable than national banks because in the worst of cases their would bring money from their home countries to respond here. That didn't happen of course.
If more than a third part of the employees in the country worked unofficially, it was only because the taxes were extortively high. Those ones where the first ones that couldn't be paid without cash on the street.

At least we learnt our lesson with the military dictatorship government and know that interrupting democracy would only make things worse.
Even if our democracy is only an illusion, all we can do is choose between different factions of that corrupt "political caste". There is not a party that we can consider an option, they are all the same.

With popular pressure we made two presidents renounce (the other ones were supposed to assume only for a couple of days).

Did that make a change?
No.
The new president is still one of them. He made those bank restrictions even harder and deepened the economic recession. Pay chains are broken, it's impossible to pay and to be paid.
The whole country is at a halt, most workers are either doing nothing at work or at forced holidays.
Social unrest is unbearable.

To avoid devaluating even more Argentinean Pesos they’re now paying with some vouchers that not even worth the paper they’re printed on. So we have different qualities of money, many kind of vouchers, pesos, but if you want to be sure you have real money you have to buy expensive dollars.

We’ve been heard outside, international institutions and foreign governments have promised their help. But of course we fear that that help will go to the corrupt government and their accomplices, and will never reach the people.

Every time he made an announcement that only means to steal less and let us have a little portion of our money he was pressured by the powerful ones to take it back.

More and more people are emigrating. I used to think that we had to face the problems here and that running away would only deepen Argentina's crisis. But I found myself considering the possibility every time more seriously lately.

Now the only positive change in that now people is united.
There’s been a change in people’s mood. We went from resignation to demanding a change.
We know what we don't want.
That's the easy part, we don't want all this to continue.
But what we don't know is what we want, we know we want a change, but not what change we want.
Is there a way out? How do you change a corrupt system?
There’s another demonstration tonight. I’m going out with them, although I still don’t know what we want.