Unrestricted Capitalist Development and the International Monetary Fund

Unrestricted Capitalist Development and the International Monetary Fund Their stinting and Social Effects on Buenos Aires. Argentina The day is Friday, December 21, 2001. after(prenominal) three days of massive riots the urban center of Buenos Aires looks like an abandoned battlefield. Its yard palm-lined avenues are strewn with burnt-out shells of cars, smashed glass, rocks, and twisted furniture. Unemployed people, pensioners, and women with babies climb through and through smashed supermarket windows searching for any aliment that looters left behind. Most banks and shops are closed, and dazed people wander the streets, confused and fearful of their nations state of affairs (Arie 11). The battle started on Monday, December 17, with massive food riots and looting of trucks transporting food, led by thousands of poor families. The Argentine government state there were 20,000 looters in Buenos Aires alone, as citizens broke into stores and smashed shop windows, ste al items including food, clothing, and toilet paper (Gardner 9). pabulum riots erupted in the working-class belt environ the capital, such as Lanus, as well (Rohter 6). Television footage from Rosario, a city northwest of Buenos Aires, showed more than one hundred slum dwellers descending on an overturned cattle truck and slaughtering the animals with sticks and knives so they could carry off chunks of perfume (Abel 20). Silvia Tebez, an unemployed 27-year-old mother of three said, a few hooligans do off with television sets and the like, but by and large these were parents who were hungry, with no coin and no hopes of obtaining any (Rohter 6). Hungry or not, the government, headed by President Fernando de la Rua, attempted to control the rioters by instituting a sta... ...State University of untested York Press, 1987.Rodriquez, Alfonso. Argentine feed Riots End, But Hunger Doesnt. The New York Times. 24 December 2001 18.Rohter, Larry. Argentine Food Riots End, But H unger Doesnt. The New York Times.23 December 2001 A6.Soriano, Alex. Argentine Police boom out Protest by Workers. The Montreal Gazette.19 April 2002 12.Sparr, Pamela. Mortgaging Womens Lives Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment. London and New Jersey Zed Books Ltd., 1994.U.S. government. 12 April 2002 http//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook.Valente, Marcela. Labor-Argentina Workers Give New Life to chuck out Factories. Inter Press Service. 19 March 2002 1-3.Ximenez, Daniel. Argentina People send off the Bastards Out. Labor Notes. 22 February 2002. http//www.labornotes.com.