Social Genocide Page #4

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and big corporations.

Alfonsn says two things at once:

He promises to repudiate the debt

but orders the president

of the Central Bank to legitimize it.

He favors prosecuting Army officers

for their crimes

during the dictatorship,

but two years later,

the "Due Obedience" laws

exonerate crimes committed

on orders of a superior.

Laws that resulted

from the insurrection

of the rebel

"painted face" officers.

People took to the streets

and defied the tanks...

We've had enough of jackboots!

Alfonsn amnesties the rebels.

Dear compatriots,

Happy Easter!

The insurgents...

have put down their weapons.

Among them,

were heroes of the Falklands war,

who had strayed...

The electoral defeat

of the Radical party

accelerates the crisis.

Stockmarket instability

and hyperinflation

lead to runs on the supermarkets.

I've decided to resign

from the job

of President of Argentina...

Alfonsn has to resign

6 months before the end

of his mandate.

The neo-Peronist Carlos Menem

becomes President

after having,

for many years, governed

the province of La Rioja,

one of the poorest in the nation.

His lightning rise

coincided

with the fall of the Berlin wall

and the ideas

of the "Consensus of Washington".

With his frankness

and his preacher's gestures,

he promises a Productivist Revolution

and big wages.

He has long sideburns

like the old rebel Facundo Quiroga,

the "Tiger of the Plains".

For every Argentinean, standing,

for poor children who are hungry,

or who are sad,

for our brothers without work,

for the homes without a roof,

for the tables without bread,

for our homeland,

I ask you to follow me,

follow me,

I won't betray you,

I won't betray you...

As God is my witness,

and facing

the judgment of History,

let me proclaim:

Argentina, get up and walk!

Sisters and brothers,

in a single voice

I say to the world:

"This is the advent

of a new and glorious Nation."

This is the era of the theory

of the "End of History",

of the single-mindedness

of globalization

and of neo-liberal democracies

in Latin America.

Long live Carlos Sal Menem!

A few days later,

he abandons his sideburns

and his promised reforms,

and betrays his voters:

His program becomes that

of the liberal conservative minority,

directed by the former rebel officer

Alvaro Alsogaray.

Everything has changed now,

there's a new relationship

between conservatives

and Peronists.

We appear to be the same,

but a fundamental change

amongst us has occurred.

Historically, it's only fair,

that a neo-Peronist president

should bring this about...

No one before Menem

had dared to carry treason so far,

or undertaken so cynically

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