Cristina: “The IMF has lived conditioning Argentine democracy”

Vice President Cristina Kirchner spoke this Friday at the ceremony for Democracy Day and left important definitions on the negotiation with the Monetary Fund, at the same time that she made her own analysis of the regional situation, in a scenario that she shared with Lula da Silva and ‘Pepe’ Mujica.She defined the Plaza de Mayo as a territory of “our greatest joys and our greatest tragedies” and recalled the role of grandmothers and mothers of Plaza de Mayo in the democratic recovery. 

“It was them and it was the blood of our soldiers in the Falklands that recovered democracy,” CFK said and called “the usurpers” the UK army that fought on the Argentine islands. The former president defined the decade of progressive governments in Latin America as a process of “unique growth, unique in generating jobs, national industry and national autonomy to make decisions.”

Speaking of the Argentine governments during that period, of her husband Néstor Kirchner and her, she recalled: “We restructured an external debt with the largest reduction of capital and interest in memory.” And he took aim harshly at the opposition and the media when talking about the debt: “Do not make the giles those who go to the television channels to give numbers to the bartola,” he said. And he added: “Regardless of who weighs on him, Peronism doubled the middle class between 2002 and 2012,” in line with what he had expressed during an act at the ESMA in the run-up to Loyalty Day.
In another section of her speech, the vice president took aim at the International Monetary Fund, at the same time that negotiations are being held with the Ministry of Economy and the day that the agency published a document highlighting the coincidences with the country. The IMF has lived conditioning Argentine democracy,” Cristina said and recalled the episodes experienced in 1989 and 2001, when the Fund “let go of the hand” of Raúl Alfonsin and Fernando de la Rua and they had to leave before finishing their mandates. >

“Those of the centennial party should be a little unspaviled because the two presidents they had were knocked down by the International Monetary Fund,” he said in reference to the radicals. In the framework of the current negotiations, the vice president criticized the recipes of the organization, since “adjustment policies can be imposed for a while but finally always collapse.” Finally, before finishing his speech, CFK spoke of the external constraint and directed his criticism at those who “have the dollars outside.” We need the Fund to help us recover from the tax havens that have gone in evasion,” he said and asked Alberto Fernández to establish it as “a bridge of negotiation.” 

Original source in Spanish