The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43992   Message #682509
Posted By: Escamillo
04-Apr-02 - 12:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Still alive in Argentina
Subject: RE: BS: Still alive in Argentina
Thanks to Neil, to Kat (APIO VERDE TUYU), thanks to all for supporting us and sharing our concern (and our panic sometimes). That song is GREAT! But it would better be a tango, you know, when we are sad or furious or really depressive, we say "today I would write a tango".

I'll ask for a harp too. Air freight could possibly be more expensive than the harp itself, but we will see. Once in 1993 when things were totally reversed, I bought a super-heavy wash machine in Miami (old good USA industry)and brought it to Buenos Aires by air, and it is humming today as the first day, and costed me the same as a local smaller machine, made in China. So, if there are good harp builders up there, think about it! But if you get only Indonesian harps, consider the Argentinean monster.

Today ex-minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, the true power behind ex-president De la Rua, was arrested under the charges of aggravated illegal exportation of Argentinean weapons with destination Croatia and Ecuador. Double crime: to sell weapons and to smuggle them.

You may see how painful is our shame: while millions of workers were falling into misery and desperation, these gentlemen were making money selling arms to conflicted countries, while negotiating loans with the IMF. Something big will have to happen here.

Un abrazo - Andrés (rich again: my bank released my weekly $100.00 cash)