{"id":49295,"date":"2019-10-30T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T21:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49295"},"modified":"2019-10-30T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T21:35:19","slug":"pepe-escobar-the-age-of-anger-exploding-in-serial-geysers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49295","title":{"rendered":"PEPE ESCOBAR: The Age of Anger Exploding in Serial Geysers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/10\/29\/pepe-escobar-the-age-of-anger-exploding-in-serial-geysers\/\">PEPE ESCOBAR: The Age of Anger Exploding in Serial Geysers<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The presidential election in Argentina pitted&nbsp;the people against neoliberalism and the people won. What happens next will have a tremendous impact all over Latin America and&nbsp;serve as a blueprint for assorted Global South struggles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>South America, Again,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Leads&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Fight Against Neoliberalism<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-29-at-9.10.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40972\"\/><figcaption>Alberto Fernandez supporters celebrating his presidential victory in Argentina.\u00a0(Screen shot\/YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>T<\/strong>he presidential election in Argentina was no less than a game-changer and a graphic lesson for the whole Global South. It pitted, in a nutshell, the people versus neoliberalism. The people won \u2013 with new President Alberto Fernandez and former President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner (CFK) as his VP.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neoliberalism was represented by Mauricio Macri: a marketing product, former millionaire playboy, president of football legends Boca Juniors, fanatic of New Age superstitions, and CEO obsessed with spending cuts, who was unanimously sold by Western mainstream media as the new paradigm of a post-modern, efficient politician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, the paradigm will soon be evacuated, leaving behind a wasteland: $250 billion in foreign debt; less than $50 billion in reserves; inflation at 55 percent; the U.S. dollar at over 60 pesos (a family needs roughly $500 to spend in a month; 35.4 percent of Argentine homes can\u2019t make it); and, incredible as it may seem in a self-sufficient nation, a food emergency.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pepe-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40976\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Head of Macri: How the First President of \u2018No Politics\u2019 &nbsp;Thinks, Lives and Leads.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macri, in fact the president of so-called Anti-Politics, No-\u00a0Politics in Argentina, was a full IMF baby, enjoying total \u201csupport\u201d (and gifted with a humongous $58 billion loan). New lines of credit, for the moment, are suspended.\u00a0\u00a0 Fernandez is going to have a really hard time trying to preserve sovereignty while negotiating with foreign creditors, or \u201cvultures,\u201d as masses of Argentines define them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEPE ESCOBAR: The Age of Anger Exploding in Serial Geysers The presidential election in Argentina pitted&nbsp;the people against neoliberalism and the people won. What happens next will have a tremendous impact all over Latin America and&nbsp;serve as a blueprint for assorted Global South struggles. South America, Again,&nbsp;Leads&nbsp;Fight Against Neoliberalism The presidential election in Argentina was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2251,6963,6996,4076,657,7664],"class_list":["post-49295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-argentina","tag-consortium-news","tag-neoliberalism","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-protests","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49296,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49295\/revisions\/49296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}