Li hoje um bom texto da Bloomberg sobre o histórico da Argentina em não pagar suas dívidas externas e em como o futuro promete que continuará assim.
Existe até um Museu para Dívida Estrangeira na Argentina.
Os argentinos deveriam se perguntar: "Tantas vezes não pagamos aos credores internacionais, será que funcionou". Mas não, eles prometem continuar não pagando aos "abutres", pois estes que emprestaram a pedido da Argentina só querem dominar o país.
July
17, 2015
Argentina’s
fight with foreign banks and bondholders is more than just business. It’s part
of the national psyche, enshrined in a special museum at the business school at
the University of Buenos Aires. The Museum of Foreign Debt is
nothing fancy. There are a few flimsy panels plastered with grainy photos,
dates, text, and graphs
Oh, but the saga portrayed on those panels! Banks, bond investors,
and the International Monetary Fund flood crooked regimes with overpriced
credit. The Argentine economy collapses, and the people suffer. International
markets are roiled. It happens time and time again. The story has all the
emotions of a good tango.
Argentina has reneged on foreign debt obligations at least seven
times, starting in 1827. The latest was in July 2014, when Argentina defaulted
rather than give in to pressure from Paul Singer of Elliott Management. The
fight with Singer has been going on for a dozen years, and the term vulture
investor—rather esoteric in much of the world—is now pretty much universally
known in Argentina. It’s so much on people’s minds that Buenos Aires toy stores
carry a homegrown board game called Vultures, packaged in a box depicting a
pair of the birds picking at a pile of dollars. “We planted the anti-vulture
flag in the world,” President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said in a speech
in mid-May. “We gave a name to international usury and despotism.”
One May morning at the debt museum, guide Antonella Fagnano, a
21-year-old business major, describes Argentines’ attitude toward default. She
pauses by a black-and-white photo of the late General Jorge Videla, who led a
1976 coup that ushered in a seven-year dictatorship. Successive presidents in
that period loaded up on foreign debt to finance, among other things, the 1982
Falklands War with the U.K.
Today’s Argentina, Fagnano says, has no moral obligation to make
good on debts like those. In fact, it would be wrong to pay. “Foreigners
financed a lot of leaders, like these dictators. They didn’t do what they were
supposed to do with the money, and left future generations the debt,” she says,
shaking her head. “So, of course, you cannot allow that.”
Fernandez is nearing the end of her term, and it doesn't look like
things will change under the next president. Daniel Scioli, the front-runner
for October elections, vows to carry on the fight against paying the
vultures in full.
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