President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner attended the opening ceremony of the inauguration of the Comahue-Cuyo 500 kilowatts power line network in Mendoza, and bashed international lenders and rate agencies, “They are looking to give us same medicine they gave us during ten years and made us hit rock bottom.”
During the opening speech, the Head of State addressed the masses with an anachronistic speech, aesthetically speaking, in which the leader remarked that “We are working so that all Argentines can improve their life quality. The arrival of energy brings investment, education and equality for everybody. When energy or natural gas arrives it doesn’t matter if you are Peronist or anti-Peronist. It brings joy to the masses of the people.”
Then was the turn of the international leneders and rate agencies such as IMF and/or the World Bank as the numerous nations struggle before the crisis of capitalism.
“In a collapsing world, they want to give us some lessons, or what is worse, they want to give us the same medicine they gave us during a decade and only served to ruin us and hit rock bottom.”
Likewise, the President stated “They believe that by enforcing spending cuts, nations will start to grow. Come on, that makes no sense!”, and added, “I remember when my husband [former late President Néstor Kirchner] told creditors in 2003 that “no dead man can meet their debts”, so I’d like to tell them that we are only using 2 percent of the GDP to pay foreign currency debt, and thanks God 6 percent of the GDP is being destiny to serve the educational system.”
To conclude, the leader warned lenders that “economic policies are decided at both the Government House and Congress, and not overseas. Only Argentines, and no one else, will forge the future of our society, sons, and grandchildren.»
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