Argentina: What Went Wrong
Argentina: What Went Wrong By Colin M. MacLachlan, Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Pra eg..er 2006 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0275990761 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Pra eg..er 2006 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0275990761 | PDF | 1 MB
In 1900, Argentina compared favorably to the prosperous countries of the world, but by 2000, it was economically prostrate, its currency worthless, its government in default. MacLachlan's history works in observations about the causes of Argentina's ailments as it narrates the country's political gyrations, which exacerbated its century-long decline. According to MacLachlan, Argentina's problems are rooted in its development over the 1800s into an oligarchic society, with a cosmopolitan capital in Buenos Aires and a poor populace out on the pampas. MacLachlan keeps tabs on the socioeconomic context, especially Argentina's boom-and-bust reliance on meat exports, as he tells how well Argentina's presidents handled immediate or chronic crises. Not well, in the opinion of the Argentine military, which called the shots from its first coup against civilian government in 1930 to its own discrediting in the 1982 Falklands fiasco, MacLachlan showing en route the significance to Argentina's present plight of the 1946-55 rule of Juan Peron. Sympathetic to the Argentine people, MacLachlan is an able analyst of the governments under which they've endured.
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