EMA BusinessPlus Magazine - Thomas Manning Columnist
The Flight of the Phoenix It is often said that politics is theatre. This has been especially true during the past four years in Argentina, which have been a high-stakes melodrama along Kafkaesque lines, redolent with existential anxiety, alienation and absurdity. The convoluted plot sees the ruling President Mauricio Macri and his coterie of media magnates and partisan judges trying to bury the immediate past president, Cristina Kirchner, in criminal prosecutions and relentless calumny. But when their neoliberal economic policies crash and burn it is the populist Cristina who is ascending from the ashes..... |
15 October 2019 ________ Editor: Thomas Manning Publisher:
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PBS/Associated Press
Peru plunges into political crisis, bringing dark days for a dynasty LIMA, Peru (AP) — President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the congress early this week and called new elections after a dispute with lawmakers over anti-corruption efforts, unilaterally eliminating Fuerza Popular’s hard-won majority in the legislature. Meanwhile, Fuerza Popular's leader, Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi, was already sitting behind bars at a women’s jail filled with drug traffickers and petty thieves while she is investigated for money laundering..... |
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THE Q MEDIA
There are four main reasons why South America did not develop as much as North America To be clear, the meaningful contrast is between Anglo-America and Latin America, since Mexico and arguably Central America are part of North America, but they had histories similar to those of the South American countries. First, the Iberian government and economic systems which were the legacy of South America, colonized by Spain and Portugal, were far inferior to the Anglo Saxon, Anglo American systems. Spain and Portugal bestowed feudalistic political economies on their colonies, with a basically parasitic rentier class living off of the labor of peasants. (In some of those colonies, strictly hierarchical societies—such as that of the Aztec—may have preceded the arrival of Europeans.).... |
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