President
Mauricio Macri has put the country back on the neoliberal path with
policies that favor big agricultural producers inside the country,
and investors both inside and outside of Argentina.
by
Jon Jeter
Part
1
Days
before Christmas of 2001, a 54-year-old Argentine woman named Norma
Cecilia Albino shoved her way past the throngs of demonstrators
protesting the government’s new banking restrictions, walked into a
bank branch in a northern Buenos Aires neighborhood, strolled to the
counter, and asked to withdraw a few pesos from her account.
When the
cashier explained to Albino that she’d already reached her limit
and would not be able to withdraw more until the following month,
Albino calmly rumbled through her purse for a bottle of alcohol,
doused herself with it, and then, to the horror of a nation, set
herself ablaze inside the bank lobby.
Albino
survived after bank employees rushed to put out the flames with a
fire extinguisher and clothing. But the traumatic moment is
emblematic of the trauma inflicted on the country by a deep economic
downturn that rivaled the Great Depression; Argentines dubbed it “La
Crisis.”
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