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October 4, 2016 By Fausta

#ColombiaDecide: Plinio smacks down Mario

Mario Vargas Llosa, prior to Sunday’s referendum, wrote an article supporting the “yes” vote for the FARC agreement, for the sake of “peace”. His long-time friend, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, author of the classic Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot, firmly and politely smacked him down.

Don Plinio describes the agreement as “a stepping stone for the FARC’s path to power”, while additionally

FARC members would be exempt from serving prison terms regardless of the atrocities they carried out for over 50 years; they’ll effectively be awarded 26 seats in Congress, 31 radio stations, a TV channel, a bountiful budget to propagate their ideology and will occupy vast regions of the country absent of Public [law enforcement] Forces, areas which effectively will become small independent states where they can spread their socialist project.

Read the whole thing in Spanish here.

I don’t know what has come over Vargas Llosa now that he’s on the tabloid covers.

UPDATE
Colombians Vote for a Better Peace. They lost confidence in a president who didn’t keep his promises.

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Filed Under: Colombia, FARC, Mario Vargas Llosa Tagged With: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

September 30, 2014 By Fausta

En español: Últimas noticias del idiota iberoamericano

Argentina: Carlos Alberto Montaner & Alvaro Vargas Llosa: “Argentina ha instalado un sistema económico perverso” – Infobae

Carlos Alberto Montaner y Álvaro Vargas Llosa, autores del libro “Últimas noticias del nuevo idiota Iberoamericano”, analizaron en InfobaeTV el rumbo del Gobierno y advirtieron que “camina hacia una catástrofe“. Las trampas del populismo y la “responsabilidad” de la oposición.

En la Argentina se instaló un sistema populista, de gran concentración de poder político; de erosión sistemática de los contrapesos y del control del poder; un sistema económico muy perverso, que consiste básicamente en extorsionar al campo para subvencionar a la ciudad, a través de eso crear un voto cautivo para permitirle al sistema una continuidad”, sentenció el peruano.

Luego advirtió por las dificultades crecientes que enfrentará la economía por la desaceleración que sufrirá como consecuencia de los cambios en las condiciones internacionales. “Hoy tiene un gasto público descomunal y una tendencia a gastarse todas sus reservas, que está provocando una situación de mucha urgencia, muy dramática”. Incluso consideró que una devaluación como la de enero puede no ser suficiente para hacer frente a la brecha entre el dólar oficial y el libre: “A los pocos meses el mercado te demuestra que tus políticas están cayendo en las mismas consecuencias”.

Montaner no fue menos optimista. “Argentina está en un ciclo muy negativo, camina hacia la catástrofe“.

El cubano reconoció que, pese a ese agotamiento que denuncian, el Gobierno goza de un considerable apoyo. “Si la oposición no consigue juntarse, va a ser muy difícil el remplazo y el sostenimiento del remplazo”.

Y explicó que “en el grupo clientelista, los clientes van a mantenerse unidos porque tienen un interés particular, que no es el del Estado, pero la oposición tiene una responsabilidad de sacar al país de esta terrible situación”.

Entrevista:

Back to English, in other Argentina news:

Argentina in Contempt of Court in Bonds Case, U.S. Judge Rules
Nation Has Tried to Circumvent Rulings on Repaying Creditors Holding Defaulted Bonds, Court Says

The contempt decision comes after the country has made several attempts to get around Judge Griesa’s series of rulings that say the country can’t pay its restructured bondholders until it pays the approximate $1.6 billion it owes to its holdout creditors.

Argentina recently passed legislation to switch the jurisdiction of its bonds governed by U.S. law to Argentina, which Judge Griesa repeatedly has said is illegal and can’t be carried out. The country also is trying to remove Bank of New York Mellon Corp. BK -0.85% as the trustee bank that processes payments and replace it with a local Argentine bank, another move that triggered the contempt citation.

“[Argentina] has been and is now taking steps in an attempt to evade critical parts of” U.S. court order, Judge Griesa said on Monday at the federal courthouse in Manhattan. “There’s a very concrete proposal that would clearly violate the injunction.”

Judge Griesa has jurisdiction in this case because Argentina in the 1990s borrowed money from foreign investors under the agreement that any disputes would be litigated in U.S. courts. Argentina defaulted in 2001, and has for years battled hedge funds that refused to accept debt exchanges in 2005 and 2010.

The hedge funds that sued Argentina in the U.S. agreed to support a request by Citigroup (C), which sought to pay $5 million interest, tied to Argentine bonds, due to today.

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Filed Under: Argentina, books, Latin America, politics Tagged With: Álvaro Vargas Llosa, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Últimas noticias del nuevo idiota Iberoamericano

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