Its Education System Terminally Ill, Argentina Has No Future

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Its Education System Terminally Ill, Argentina Has No Future
Analítica.com, Argentina
By Alcira Argumedo
Translated By Patricia O'Connor
11 December 2013
Edited by Chris J. deGrazia

Henry Kissinger can die happy: His project is coming to fruition. In 1938, pursued by the Nazis as a 15-year-old German-Jewish adolescent, he fled with his parents to the United States. There he became the architect of some of the most aberrant strategies the U.S. has pursued in Latin America. Between 1969 and 1977, he served as secretary of state under [former U.S. Presidents] Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The foreign policies he imposed in his “backyard” are manifestations of his imperial ideas and the diabolical clarity with which he used to impose his plans of subjugation over the medium term, with no concern for the methods used or their human and material costs.

When Kissinger assumed office, the Latin American continent seemed like enemy territory, home to dangerous aspirations of sovereignty and justice. Torrijos in Panama, Velasco Alvarado in Peru, Torres in Bolivia, Allende in Chile, laborers who supported Peron joining with young students to form a resistance movement in Argentina, popular movements in Uruguay — displaying various degrees of radicalism, all of these rebel movements questioned the political-cultural hegemony of economic elites. At the same time, protectionist policies and tariff barriers stymied the expansion of multinational corporations and banks that had begun seeking economies of scale through hemisphere-wide markets in the 1960s.

In this context, at the beginning of the 1970s, the United States began to promote Kissinger’s strategy to restore the conservative agenda. Its objective was to reestablish U.S. hegemony: The aspirations of the military dictatorships that state terrorism bolstered under the Condor Plan were to be annihilated. Military coups followed: in Bolivia in 1971, Uruguay in 1972, Chile in 1973, Peru in 1975 and Argentina in 1976. Our country, Argentina, received special treatment. In July 1976 — just a few months after the military coup — the U.S. secretary of state traveled to Brazil and signed a protocol agreement with the dictatorship that had been in power there since 1964. Basically, the agreement anointed Brazil as the imperial representative in South American and the South Atlantic. And so began the policy of privileged satellite states. As part of the protocol, the U.S. and Brazil planned to hold bilateral meetings every six months to decide on the policies they considered appropriate within their spheres of influence. They hoped their approach would neutralize the ongoing global and regional rebelliousness within the United Nations, the OAS [Organization of American States] and the Inter-American Defense Board. Lacking unconditional majorities in these entities, the U.S. and its interests were facing serious challenges.

In addition to its political duties, a privileged satellite state was supposed to focus on industrial production by transnational corporations in support of developing markets across the hemisphere — after reducing trade barriers and imposing free market principles.

[PADemD]

1. Must read.

[glowing]

2. And how many can read the selection just offered or comprehend it?

Also, look at how America's populace is increasingly becoming undereducated and poorer and making the wrong choices politically for their well being.

[raouldukelives]

3. It is very depressing that this is the fruits of our ancestors labors.

Instead of a country that could stand a as a beacon to humanity. That could use its economic power to spread democracy, civil rights and freedom. We instead saw it used to stamp on the necks of those struggling for a better existence and to subjugate them to whims of of the corporate elite and its sycophants.
It is no surprise the boot is now upon our necks, it was paid for and perfected by Americans in banking and finance of yesterday and is being supported by the continuing selfish patronage of its inheritors and those who exist only to serve wealth.