Pensar que hasta no hace mucho

The Economist estaba entre los que se hacían pis y caca encima por el "modelo". Por suerte, ya nadie compra los buzones del régimen kirchnerista:

FROM this week, any Argentine wanting to take a foreign holiday must not only provide his tax identification-number but also tell the tax agency (known as AFIP) where, when and why he is going. Officials say this violation of privacy is needed to fight tax evasion and money laundering. In reality, the reason is that the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is starting to run out of dollars. Since the inflation rate is already over 25%, the government is terrified of letting the peso depreciate. Instead, it is resorting to a siege economy.

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Calle Florida, a pedestrianised thoroughfare in the heart of Buenos Aires, is once again thronged with money-changers, as it was in the inflationary 1980s. They offer dollars at competitive rates, in some cases extracting them from their socks. Another loophole is used by companies: in a market known as blue-chip swaps, they buy dollar-denominated sovereign bonds in pesos, transferring them to the United States where they sell them for dollars. El blue—the latest in a long line of Argentine economic neologisms—reached 6.15 to the dollar in late May, up from 5.20 in March. The official exchange rate is 4.47.