Obama visited Buenos Aires yesterday. He met with Mauricio Macri and they both threw white flowers into the Rio de la Plata; an offering to the thousands of victims who were “disappeared” by the dictatorship in Argentina. Obama also learned to tango a little bit while he was there.
This week will be a huge week for US-Argentine diplomacy. President Obama is traveling to Buenos Aires to meet with Argentinian president Mauricio Macri. During this meeting the US will declassify all the documents related to our involvement in Argentina from the years 1976-83. This was the recent period of the dictatorship in Argentina. Up until this point the US’s involvement was rumored to be true but it has been cloak and dagger, blacked out text, and top secret envelopes for the past 33 years. On Thursday, all the documents will be declassified.
During the dictatorship in Argentina there was a war fought between leftist “Terrorists” or freedom fighters (depending on what time you are looking at this from), and the government. This war is now referred to as the “Dirty War”, during this war more than 13,000 people were executed or disappeared by the Argentinian government. 13,000 is on the low end of the estimates, some human rights groups put the number over 30,000. Thursday will mark a huge step forward in the reparations being made for the atrocities committed during the dictatorship. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/18/us-to-declassify-military-intelligence-records-on-argentina-dirty-war.html
There is a strike going on with public sector workers right now in Argentina. The new president took office with a country in shambles. Inflation is going through the roof and there was a greatly overpopulated public sector. Marci fired thousands of government employees in an attempt to reduce government spending and eventually slow inflation. He also got rid of fuel subsidies and reduced the wages of many public sector workers. These actions have done little to reduce inflation, and have made him significantly less popular with the people.
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