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14 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

 

I mean I think it’s only like a 50 peso fine for not voting 

Maybe, I never asked about the consequences.  I guess they diminish as the value of the peso decreases.

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9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

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you have little clinics staffed that can give an array of medical care and shots. they can order x-rays and such

birth control shot is $5, so i've heard 

I believe Israel has free healthcare, women’s productive rights, free university as well.  So we’re funding all this stuff for Argentina and Israel but no soup for us.

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Posted
16 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

Story as old as time, but I guess it's not in the dark in smoke-filled rooms and secrecy anymore.

Prices have sure gone up.

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Damn, that didn't take long.  King Mierdas in effect again.  Everything he touches turns to shit.

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Trump Offered a Helping Hand to Argentina. It Backfired.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/americas/argentina-trump-javier-milei.html

Spoiler

As President Javier Milei of Argentina faced a deepening economic crisis, President Trump rushed to the rescue of his political ally with a generous $20 billion bailout. 

Then came the fine print.

To secure help from the United States, Mr. Trump made clear on Tuesday, Mr. Milei’s embattled political party would have to first pull off a victory in what are emerging as momentous and challenging legislative elections this month.

“If he doesn’t win, we’re gone,” Mr. Trump said as he welcomed Mr. Milei, who he has called his “favorite president,” to the White House. “If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina.”

In Argentina, those comments were taken by many as a clear attempt by Mr. Trump to put his thumb on a sovereign country’s electoral process.

The fallout was swift. The peso tumbled as investors went on a panicked selling spree of Argentina’s currency. Mr. Milei’s political opponents railed against what they called American extortion, urging voters to reject his party at the polls. And Mr. Milei’s government rushed to try to assure Argentines that Mr. Trump wouldn’t abandon the nation based on Mr. Milei’s political fortunes. 

To many, Mr. Trump’s conditional economic support represented yet another attempt to influence, through economic sticks and carrots, the internal affairs of another Latin American country. The turmoil that followed also highlighted the risks Mr. Milei faces as he shackles his political fortunes, and Argentina’s economic future, to America’s deep pockets and Mr. Trump’s fickle friendship. 

“Trump might have sabotaged his favorite president — by both giving him too much support and too little support,” said Benjamin Gedan, a senior fellow and director of the Latin America Program at the Stimson Center, a nonprofit in Washington.

Mr. Milei, a self-described radical libertarian, has worked hard to earn Mr. Trump’s good graces. He has made more than a dozen trips to the United States as president, many of them to meet Mr. Trump and his closest allies. He has also consistently gushed about the American leader and mirrored much of his foreign policy and his attacks on “woke leftists.”

His bet seemed to pay off last month when the U.S. Treasury made the highly unusual move of stepping in to help Argentina stave off an economic meltdown by promising to buy billions of dollars worth of Argentine pesos. 

Mr. Milei’s trip to Washington this week was meant to be a victory lap highlighting his close ties with Mr. Trump and bolstering confidence in his leadership among voters back home.

Yet, rather than a key lifeline, Mr. Trump’s help may have backfired. “What could have been interpreted as help, the way Trump phrased it ended up sounding more like extortion,” said Lucas Romero, a political consultant, who runs Synopsis, a local polling firm. 

Argentines wary of American meddling in their affairs could punish Mr. Milei at the polls. Surveys earlier this month showedthat more than 60 percent of Argentines have a negative view of Mr. Trump.

 



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