We have seen this movie a thousand times in Latin America and elsewhere. The Latin American version of populism is as old as the Mexican revolution and as recent as the Venezuelan tragedy. In fact, Argentina, once the most educated country in the region, built on the back of a middle class that was much stronger than that of the neighboring countries, became decadent precisely because of Peronista populism. That is why, incidentally, the privatization of YPF in 1999 had the support of most Argentines, including, ironically, Néstor Kirchner and his wife.
According to the polls, three in every four Argentines now support the government takeover of YPF. How long before we see those same millions of people, desperate to turn the clock on the devastation brought about by the new version of Peronista populism, backing the re-privatization of the oil and gas company?
El peronismo, sobre todo este, no es un mero populismo, es un fascismo. El populismo se da en cualquier social democracia, con gasto y otras maniobras económicas dirigistas desde el Estado. Pero que conservan las instituciones y la propiedad privada. El peronismo y el chavismo fueron más allá atentando contra la propiedad y la libertad. Incluso el PRI no llegó tan lejos.
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Delete(Hoy estoy de buen humor.)