50 years after the coup, books, works and songs that demand Memory, Truth and Justice - Rolling Stone

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content provider those are numbers.

How else do you keep a running total? By throwing widgets in a basket?

 

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we weren’t there

My wife was. And I had many a talk with the former Air Force General who lived next to us in Belgrano before he died a few years ago.

 

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john perkins confessions of an economic hitman

The Hidden Power Behind Global Influence (And Why Your Story Matters More Than You Think)

What Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals about control—and how it applies to your life and legacy TL;DR Power today often moves through money, not armies. John Perkins’s book reframes how in…

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[CraigM]

content provider those are numbers. we weren’t there. maybe just maybe the usa was trying to stabilize the argentine peoples lifes. if you can tell me what life was like the peron government. by the way i don’t think the usa gov doesn’t do anything with out a motive. john perkins confessions of an economic hitman. not trying to be adversarial

Agreed jbeas. I read that book when it came out and then the dozens of analyses that followed in the media. It definitely colored my worldview at the time. As I got older though and met people involved in those sorts of things, the general consensus was that it was filled with half-truths and exaggerations. None of them knew Perkins' personally, some figured he had a real bone to pick or maybe his editor pushed him to sell more books. One fellow I spoke to said "some of these guys are just drama queens by nature".

 

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Agreed jbeas. I read that book when it came out and then the dozens of analyses that followed in the media. It definitely colored my worldview at the time. As I got older though and met people involved in those sorts of things, the general consensus was that it was filled with half-truths and exaggerations. None of them knew Perkins' personally, some figured he had a real bone to pick or maybe his editor pushed him to sell more books. One fellow I spoke to said "some of these guys are just drama queens by nature".

WTF are you even talking about? Argentina is not even mentioned.

Where Argentina Fits (Indirectly)​

Argentina—and events like the Dirty War—fall into the same broader theme:

• U.S. influence in Latin America
• Anti-communist policy during the Cold War
• Support for certain regimes

But Perkins does not:

• Provide a detailed narrative of Argentina
• Break down the Dirty War specifically
• Claim direct involvement there
  
  Now, the Mango Mussolini wanting to trade/give/whatever $20 billion to Argentina DOES fit. But that was decades later.

 

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Here is an article by Juan Pablo Spinetto, he works for Bloomberg and is a go to source for Argentina analysis, born in BA. This is about the Dictatorship legacy, which highlights that the Argentine people are one of the only ones to hold their leaders accountable for atrocities/crimes in the court of law. An impressive feat. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...LKsrgVYFw72efvLoI4PyDs&leadSource=reddit_wall

 

[Uncle Wong]

One fellow I spoke to said "some of these guys are just drama queens by nature".

🤣 That can describe a lot of people. Most people are drama queens.

 

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Here is an article by Juan Pablo Spinetto, he works for Bloomberg and is a go to source for Argentina analysis, born in BA. This is about the Dictatorship legacy, which highlights that the Argentine people are one of the only ones to hold their leaders accountable for atrocities/crimes in the court of law. An impressive feat. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...LKsrgVYFw72efvLoI4PyDs&leadSource=reddit_wall

While Argentina stands out for the speed, scale, and success of trials—unlike Brazil (delayed prosecutions), Chile (Pinochet's limited accountability), or Guatemala (sporadic cases)—other nations like Peru (Fujimori convicted) and Ethiopia (Mengistu tried) have also held leaders accountable, though often later or less comprehensively.

 

[jbeas176]

good stuff thanks for the article. thats what i was looking for. gracias mi amigo