24 de marzo 1976/2006

[Arcadia]

30 years from the last golpe de estado in my country.
Lots of actos, marchas, special newspapers editions, seminarios, special classes, tv programmes, memories, conversations, voices, silence, music, tears, faces, answers and questions.
Yesterday I was there

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/2006/03/24/ ... 0126.shtml

and in two hours starts the marcha in Rosario

yesterday in Buenos Aires

www.pagina12.com.ar

[e_dog]

what is the general attitude in eso pais?

are people angry, sad about the past, or happy that conditions have improved or ambivalent?

does anyone blame the US for anti-democratic / anti-left policies thruout the years re: Latin America?

que pasa?

[Arcadia]

good questions. All that you mention. What is clear is that there are less people indifferent about it. And yes, most of the people, I included, think what you said about USA governments. And one of the marcha's consignas also were fuera yankees de Irak.

In thursday 's vigilia acto in the Monumento the clima was more ritual/introspective and I think sadness was the principal emotion.

Yesterday in the marcha the thing was more angry/festive. The marcha in Rosario started at 5 pm with a suddenly cool wind and some rain and we reach the Flag Memorial three and half hours later for the central act. I marched with some friends with the murgas Okupando levitas and Los caidos del puente at the end of the line, dancing at times, singing, talking and drinking mate.

See

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/2006/03/25/ ... 0385.shtml

[Arcadia]

all anniversaries, birthday's included, bring also some balance... and one of the questions is what have improved since 1983 and what is still pendiente... I think that consider both things is necessary.

[lenny]

I don't know about all the rest but I think one of the wisest decisions Argentina has made recently is to divest itself of some of its fiat currency and buy at least five tons of gold bullion for its treasury. There is not one fiat currency in the history of mankind that has not failed. Gold and silver have always been regarded by man as having more intrinsic value than paper and ink. The days of the FRN (Federal Reserve Note - U.S. dollar) being used as the world's reserve currency are coming to a fast halt and all related fiats will also succumb along with it. Fiat - meaning 'by decree' is worth no more than the paper and ink it is printed on since the world has abandoned both the gold and silver standards. (Which Indonesia, by the way, is leading a concerted effort to reintroduce via the Islamic gold dinar - money backed by real gold. America now holds one quarter of the worlds gold - much of it belonging to other nations but kept in a vault five stories underground on Manhattan's bedrock, the only place strong enough to sustain its weight. So Argentina would be very wise to begin a gold and silver accumulation process, keeping it in Argentina to help mitigate the financial collapses that have haunted Argentina.

Peace and prosperity,

leonardo

[Arcadia]

thanks Leonardo! I read your post this midday. I want to know more about the dictadura economy. I only know that all the state/enterprises were intervenidas for the militares and that our national debt was increased in order to benefit particulares.
And you say that now all is about silver & gold, I don't know... I only like silver for anillos, pulseras and tobilleras...
saludos,