Y esperando
Un artículo en inglés, para el público
norteamericano, para que entienda el sentimiento de la gente común ante lo que
ve pasar enfrente, la política y economía, como una película de horror. Al
final, y sin ganas de levantar un dedo por el desánimo, me pongo a escuchar a Rodrigo Pequeño, un cantante de Salta, chango
churo, para ponerle alegría al domingo
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| Ómnibus cerca del aeropuerto, Salta |
Our Salta, dear
province, does not have a brilliant future, I am afraid. It is not that we
cannot produce, that we lack capable people to carry the necessary growth. The
reason is that we have had the worst people in government and politics. People
who did not want Argentina, and Salta, to surpass, overcome and compete around
the world. They did not join forces, the left and the right, to establish a
period of truce between party struggles, and help the economy and face the
uncertainty of the future. They made the state an elephant so big that it is
impossible to maintain. They did not attract real investment apart from
vultures that wanted easy money. Our politicians were so corrupt that they
would make “Ladrón sin destino” looked like a paled nun.
Who would want
to come and bring their money if our own people took their money to Bahamas?
Who would want
to come to Argentina if they knew they had to invest in briberies (“coimas” at
all levels) first to establish a company or factory?
Who would want
to come with fresh money if they feared a change in government would mean a change
in legislation and possibly the forfeiting of the company?
Who would want
to come to invest in factories, salaries and social security when the dollar
and the Lebacs are so attractive and
easy to make money with?
Who would want
to come to put the money in a country where the judiciary system seems to lack
independence?
Who would want
to come to risk his investment where all the corrupted officials, in the present
and the past, are free even when they had confirmed sentences (Hello, Carlos Saul Menem)?
I wrote this
article, in Spanish, called “Salta
Empobrecida y Esperando” based on these points:
Mauricio Macri
and Cristina Kirchner are two sides of the same coin.
Small
entrepreneurs are trying to escape economic crisis selling empanadas.
Low salaries in
the public sector as opposed to politicians’ salaries in the premium side.
Constant rises
in the levying of taxes and services.
Inflation rates
endlessly increasing and constraining the economy.
Corruption at
all levels that makes any policy almost impossible to implement.
Off shore
savings from Argentine rich people, and government officials, who do not trust
their own government.
It is a shame the
things we are suffering because everybody says we have a great country, with
huge resources, prepared people and a blessed land. A teacher of mine, from
South Africa, once told me that if you threw a seed here it would grow almost
unattended. That is the level of potential we have.
I do not want to
see people making empanadas to sell outside their houses, because there are no
jobs to recur to. I do not want to see poor children without shoes to wear at
school. I do not want to contemplate ollas
populares to feed the poor and helpless.
I also mentioned
in my article that there is a company, here in Salta, using engineers,
Saltenian engineers, making software to sell to American and European
companies. A system that should be copied at all levels. That is what I want.
The stuff is
there. The intelligence is ready to erupt. We just need the government helping
these entrepreneurs to pave the way to development.
Look at the
headlines from an Argentine newspaper:
Las coimas
Carlos Wagner involucró a Cristina
Los Kirchner usaban aviones oficiales para llevar
los bolsos
San Juan: Polémica por la educación sexual integral
El gobierno no logra superar las turbulencias
económicas
El kirchnerismo cierra filas en defensa de Cristina
Deberán asumir las provincias el costo del
transporte
Los cambios en el patrimonio de Cristina otra vez en
la lupa
Regards. Jorge
Harto ya de estar harto ya me cansé y me pongo a
escuchar a Rodrigo Pequeño, que canta
lindo y es talentoso, el chango. Tu amor
es todo, del álbum Cosa Peligrosa:
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