limit is usually the fall of De La Rua, not without some intention, the nefarious December 2001 not to go as far back do a review of that year.
With the assumption of Lopez Murphy as Minister of Economy, the Alliance government is committed to meet targets with the IMF and confirms the continuity of convertilbilidad .
The plan provides for it a spending cut of 1,900 million dollars the current year and 2,400 for 2002.
The universities have trimmed 361 and 541 milion (2001 and 2002 respectively).
The 550 million projected to increase salaries for teachers, will be transferred to the provinces despite warnings from governors about the impossibility of dealing with that commitment.
Supposedly the catastrophic decline in educational spending would be financed by eliminating subsidies to gasoline and snuff Patagonia in the northern provinces. 95 million "saved" by eliminating scholarships, special pensions and allowances that you have Senators and Congressmen. Other 60 million budget was cut from the SIDE, removed from the provisional cash contribution to the armed forces and "savings" on ANSeS and Health.
Eliminates the VAT exemption for cable television, performing arts and sports.
is projected to eliminate 30% of public employment, the strengthening of the labor reform (a euphemism for job insecurity). The privatization of the nation
AFJP
, the Mint and the National Lottery.
begins to weaken the government of the Alliance.
Storani (Interior Minister), Juri (Minister of Education), Makon (Minister of Social Development) and other officials as Meijide Fernández, Nilda Garre, Adriana Puiggrós, Enrique Martinez and Ricardo Mitre, waive
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own and allied troop begins taking away.
Sale López Murphy. Sign
Cavallo.
gives Congress the "superpowers", the establishment is auspicious arrival and the public / da Mingo excited thinking that will remedy the situation.
April 2001
Of the 2,100 billion agreed fiscal deficit stood at 3.100.
More spending cuts (300 million) to lend a pallina to the 6,500 that were promised to the IMF.
bonds were launched two years by 760 million.
Lower VAT on sale of capital goods from 21 to 10.5%. In addition to the 21 for cable TV, performing arts and sports, in addition the sale of newspapers and magazines.
is raised from 2.5 to 4 per thousand tax on financial transfers. The difference will be taken as payment on account of profit and VAT.
July 2001 Cavallo
launches new plan promises zero deficit plan and cutting costs. Debt will be paid from tax revenue, and the remainder will go to the expense and if not enough, they reduce wages and pensions exceeding two hundred dollars ($ 200 or U $ S200, now $ 766).
Alfonsin is manifested against measures of super-minister. The UCR increasingly away from the invisible and President De La Rua and his government.
Nobody defends the national government and Clarín starts talking about "voting anger" in view of the forthcoming October elections, a term that mostly the middle class (most of which led to the Alliance to power) would adopt as their own militancy it like the rest of the media.
7,600 million dollars issued in quasi-currencies: Nation Lecop Patacón Buenos Aires
3,225 2,705 800
Lecor Federal Córdoba Entre Ríos Corrientes 206 237
Cecacor BOCAD
Quebracho Tucumán 173 100
Boncafor Chaco Formosa Petrom
Mendoza 73 70 32 Bono Public Catamarca La Rioja La Rioja
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Jujuy 6 August 2001
Agreement with the IMF. Would receive U.S. $ 8,000 million, and if the provinces agree to a zero deficit: 3,000 more.
At the same time it punishes Intangibility Act of Deposits.
Again the establishment, public opinion / d (means) renewed enthusiasm and spoke of the importance of "international support" of "exist for the world."
the dollar savings are soothed.
September 2001
After vetoing the law requiring payment accept
Patacones
services and advocacy on behalf of private enterprises in electricity, gas, telephone, etc.., Ruckauf begin to fall apart.
October 2001
After two years of management of the Alliance,
vote
anger is what characterizes the elections of 14 October. It promotes the "Alternative 501" (the 500 km distance required by electoral law to justify the absence from the polls), the image of Clement, the slice of salami or just the white vote.
The 78.9% (14,442,003) voted in favor. 21.1% (3,871,211) voted blank or annulled their votes. Outside of numbers, can be summarized that the results marked a stinging defeat of the Alliance (which at this point he had only the name), after two years in office. Using
PJ reappear as the largest national political force important distinction with a speech on the economic and social policy of the Alliance government as well as Carlos Menem. Grows
left vote, largely neutralized by the traditional reluctance to build alliances.
deflate the expectations created by the Social Pole and ARI.
And new electoral system is used to express political repudiation, rather than as a means to elect representatives.
Standard & Poor's is incorporated into our daily lives and no one leaves home without knowing the temperature, humidity and the "country risk", he called to Argentina in a situation of technical insolvency.
November 2001
New economic measures involving an old recipe: the nationalization of private debt, announced after the "country risk" of 2319 came to record the
Exchange closed up 1 , 89% and more expensive interest rates.
mass is restructured debt.
November 23, Clarín
titled "Every day in Argentina there are 2,000 new poor" . The media pick up the glove and extensive notes occur in all media that discover and explain the "two types of poverty, structural, and the new poor."
Congress approves 550 projects in two days. The 2002 budget would maintain the pay cut and retirement and could even suppress the bonus.
December 2001
more measures, and with them
"the yard" benefiting banks, fearful of an imminent bank run, the big players in the stock market with buy-sell transactions were allowed to take money abroad. A utility companies, ensuring payment on time and through automatic debits that limit of two hundred fifty dollars a week they were allowed to remove user accounts prevented them from dealing with these debts in cash.
U.S., the governors of Santa Fe (Reutemann), La Pama (Marin) and Chaco (the holes), support the measures. The IMF wants devaluation or dollarization. Denies U.S. $ 1,260 million due in December for breach of the goals. Cavallo travels to Washington and return with empty hands. Grow
rumors reports that talks SIDE operations of the various governors of the PJ (with Duhalde in the lead) to lure De La Rua.
The savings
picketing banks begin looting supermarkets in Rosario and performs
"See No Home Poor People in Argentina"
on 13, 14 and December 15 across the country organized by the FRENAPO (Federación Agraria Argentina, FAA, "The Central de Trabajadores Argentinos, CTA, the Assembly of Small and Medium Enterprises-APYME-the Cooperative Institute Funds Mobilization-IMFC-the Federación Universitaria Argentina-FUA-and a hundred union and social organizations).
resigns vice Economy: Daniel Marx and cancel 700 million debt avoiding bankruptcy.
The IMF continues putting pressure, and people too: the looting spread to other provinces.
Broadcast budget Senators and growing discontent.
The rest is what is etched in memory. Chacho's resignation. The Banelco. The Chinese supermarket crying, pans, the state of siege, repression, the dead ...
December 2001 there is an event of spontaneous generation.
December 2001 must be analyzed and debated since its genesis.
Video made with images taken by Charles Brigo.