lunes, abril 22, 2013

Robert Cox en el Buenos Aires Herald

"Readers of this column, which I have been writing since my semi-permanent re-entry to Argentina more than three years ago, will have noted a constant preoccupation with democracy. I conducted a conversation with myself and my readers about the threat to Argentina’s hard-won and still fragile democracy posed by an increasingly authoritarian, not to say totalitarian government.
In the beginning I gave the government the benefit of the doubt, particularly because opponents of the government were so negative about the achievements in social policies and in bringing to justice the criminals of the “Dirty War.” Today I doubt whether I can continue to give any benefit of the doubt to a government that is dysfunctional and which is clearly intent on taming both the media and the judiciary.
I do not think that the Kirchner administration will be successful in its attempt to “democratize” Argentina along the lines of the regime in Cuba or Hugo Chávez’s grandiloquent Bolivarian socialism. But I do think that the Kirchner ideal is nothing like the democracy that I tasted for a while in Argentina under Frondizi, Illia and Alfonsín and have lived with in Europe and the United States."
Del artículo After 18A: People Power and the middle-class rebellion 
Nota: Robert Cox fue Director del Buenos aires Herald durante la Dictadura desde donde publicó artículos que nadie más se animaba a publicar. Es reconocido -o era, al menos- hasta por 678 y el Boletin Oficial 12.

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