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[[File:Flag of Argentina.svg|thumb|The flag of Argentina]]
[[File:Argentina.svg|thumb|A map of Argentina]]
[[File:Buenos Aires Province Montage.png|thumb|A montage of images from Buenos Aires Province in Argentina]]
'''{{w|Argentina}}''', officially the '''Argentine Republic''' is a country in the southern half of [[South America]]. Argentina covers an area of {{convert|2780400|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}, making it the [[w:List of South American countries by area|second-largest country in South America]] after [[Brazil]], the fourth-largest country in the [[Americas]], and the [[w:List of countries and dependencies by area|eighth-largest country]] in the world. It shares the bulk of the [[w:Southern Cone|Southern Cone]] with [[Chile]] to the west, and is also bordered by [[Bolivia]] and {{w|Paraguay}} to the north, Brazil to the northeast, {{w|Uruguay}} and the South [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the east, and the {{w|Drake Passage}} to the south. Argentina is a [[w:Federation|federal state]] subdivided into twenty-three [[w:Provinces of Argentina|provinces]], and one [[w:autonomous city|autonomous city]], which is the [[w:federal capital|federal capital]] and [[w:List of cities in Argentina by population|largest city]] of the nation, [[w:Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires]]. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a [[w:Federalism|federal system]]. Its current President is [[Javier Milei]]. Argentina claims sovereignty over the [[w:Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute|Falkland Islands]], [[w:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands sovereignty dispute|South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]], and [[w:Argentine Antarctica|a part of Antarctica]].

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==Quotes==

===A===
* There is yet one more version of the culture hypothesis: perhaps it is not English versus non-English that matters but, rather, European versus non-European. Could it be that Europeans are superior somehow because of their work ethic, outlook on life, [[Judeo-Christian]] values, or [[Roman Empire|Roman]] heritage? It is true that [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], filled primarily by [[White people|people of European descent]], are the most prosperous parts of the world. Perhaps it is the superior European cultural legacy that is at the root of prosperity—and the last refuge of the culture hypothesis. Alas, this version of the culture hypothesis has as little explanatory potential as the others. A greater proportion of the population of Argentina and [[wikipedia:Uruguay|Uruguay]], compared with the population of [[Canada]] and the [[United States]], is of European descent, but Argentina’s and Uruguay’s economic performance leaves much to be desired. [[Japan]] and [[Singapore]] never had more than a sprinkling of [[White people|inhabitants of European descent]], yet they are as prosperous as many parts of Western Europe.
** Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, ''Why Nations Fail: The Roots of Power, Poverty, and Prosperity'' (2012)

===B===
* We also visited one of our great partners in the [[wikipedia:Southern Cone|Southern Cone]]: Argentina. With President [[Mauricio Macri]] and our partners from Uruguay and Paraguay, we pushed [[ideology]] away from Mercosur. We also have been able to achieve important victories in terms of international trade, by successfully finalizing negotiations that had been going on for decades without a conclusion.
** [[Jair Bolsonaro]], Speech at the 74th UN General Assembly. [http://statements.unmeetings.org/GA74/BR_EN.pdf Statement by Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil]. United Nations PaperSmart (24 September 2019).

* Some days past I have found a curious confirmation of the fact that what is truly native can and often does dispense with local color; I found this confirmation in [[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]]'s ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]].'' Gibbon observes that in the [[Arabs|Arabian]] book ''par excellence'', in the [[Qur'an|Koran]], there are no [[camels]]; I believe if there were any doubt as to the authenticity of the Koran, this absence of camels would be sufficient to prove it is an Arabian work. It was written by [[Muhammad|Mohammed]], and Mohammed, as an Arab, had no reason to know that camels were especially Arabian; for him they were part of reality, he had no reason to emphasize them; on the other hand, the first thing a falsifier, a [[Tourism|tourist]], an [[w:Arab_nationalism|Arab nationalist]] would do is have a surfeit of camels, caravans of camels, on every page; but Mohammed, as an Arab, was unconcerned: he knew he could be an Arab without camels. I think we Argentines can emulate Mohammed, can believe in the possibility of being Argentine without abounding in local color.
** [[Jorge Luis Borges]], "The Argentine Writer and Tradition", ''Fervor of Buenos Aires'' (1923)

* As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. I mean, why should I think of myself as being an Argentine, and not a [[Chile|Chilean]], and not an [[w:Uruguay|Uruguayan]]. I don't know really. All of those myths that we impose on ourselves —  and they make for [[hatred]], for [[war]], for enmity —  are very harmful. Well, I suppose in the long run, governments and countries will die out and we'll be just, well, cosmopolitans.
** [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/interviews/borges.htm "A Conversation With Jorge Luis Borges"], ''Artful Dodge'' (April 1980)

===C===
* Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than “terror” and “[[terrorism]].”  These terms have generally been confined to the use of violence by individuals and marginal groups.  Official violence, which is far more extensive both in scale and destructiveness, is placed in a different category altogether.  The usage has nothing to do with justice, causal sequence, or numbers abused.  Whatever the actual sequence of cause and effect, official violence is described as responsive or provoked (“retaliation,” “protective reaction,” etc.), not the active and initiating source of abuse.  Similarly, the massive long-term violence inherent in the oppressive social structures that U.S. power has supported is typically disregarded. The numbers tormented and killed by official violence – wholesale as opposed to retail terror – during recent decades have exceeded those of unofficial terrorists by a factor running into the thousands.  But this is not “terror,” although one terminological exception may be noted: while Argentinian “security forces” only retaliate and engage in “police action,” violence carried out by unfriendly states ([[Cuba]], [[Cambodia]]) may be designated “terroristic.”  The status of proper usage is settled not merely by the official or unofficial status of the perpetrators but also by their political affiliations.
** [[Noam Chomsky]] and [[Edward S. Herman]], '''The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism,'' p. 6''.''

* In the post-Vietnam War era the need for [[Communism|Communist]] abuses has been no less pressing than before.  More facts have come to light on the scope of [[Vietnam War|U.S. violence in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos]], the extent of which U.S. officials lied to the public with regard to their programs and methods, and the brazenness with which these officials defied treaty obligations and [[international law]].  Much as the [[Federal government of the United States|government]] and the [[Mass media|media]] tried to isolate the scoundrelism of [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] from the much more profound immorality of the “secret” devastation of [[Cambodia]], the linkage between the two could not be entirely concealed and therefore tended to discredit still further the campaign to bring “freedom” to [[South Vietnam]].  Counterrevolution, torture and official murder in Argentina, [[w:Guatemala|Guatemala]], [[Chile]], and other U.S. satellites was also reaching new peaks.  Thus, if Cambodian terror did not exist, the Western [[propaganda]] systems would have had to invent it, and in certain respects it did […].
** [[Noam Chomsky]] and [[Edward S. Herman]], '''The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, p. 19.''

===E===
* Long live [[Germany]]. Long live Argentina. Long live [[Austria]]. These are the three countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget. I greet my wife, my family and my friends. I am ready. We'll meet again soon, as is the fate of all men. I die believing in [[God]].
** [[Adolf Eichmann]], Before his execution in [[Jerusalem]] (1 June 1962), as quoted in ''Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer"'' by David Cesarani (2006), p. 321. {{ISBN|978-0-306-81539-3}}.

* We want a cooperative peace in which the peoples of every nation have the right of free choice--the right to establish their own institutions, to live by their own cardinal concepts, and to be free of external pressure or threat. These are deep-seated desires held passionately in common by the peoples of the [[United States]] and Argentina. We hope to see machines capable of destruction turned exclusively to constructive purposes. These shared aspirations spring from a common [[w:Heritage|heritage]]: Both our countries won their [[independence]] from [[Europe|European]] powers. The drafters of [[United States Declaration of Independence|our Declaration of Independence]] proclaimed that "all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." In Argentina, [[w:Esteban_Echeverria|Esteban Echeverria]] said: "[[Equality]] and [[liberty]] are . . . the two poles of . . . [[Democracy]] . . ." In the United States, [[Abraham Lincoln]] described [[Democracy|democratic]] government as "of the people, by the people, and for the people." In Argentina, [[w:Juan_Alberdi|Juan Alberdi]] declared: "Public [[freedom]] is no more than the sum . . . of the freedoms of all." The [[United States Constitution|Constitution of the United States]] carefully separated the [[United States Congress|legislative]], [[President of the United States|executive]], and [[Supreme Court of the United States|judicial branches of our government]]. In Argentina, the great liberator, [[José de San Martín]], stated: "Displaying the most excellent principles matters not at all, when he who makes the law, he who carries it out, is also he who judges it." Your founding fathers and [[Founding Fathers of the United States|ours]] acted upon the same great [[Hope|hopes]] and expressed--almost identically--the same wisdom. This is of course not surprising: the vision of true [[freedom]] cannot be dimmed by a barrier of language or distance.
** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-the-national-congress-argentina Address to the National Congress of Argentina, The American Presidency Project]; 26 February 1960

* Within one century after [[Christopher Columbus|Columbus]]' arrival, the entire native American population of the Caribbean islands was exterminated, probably 8 million people. In continental Latin America, only 12 million people survived after a century of [[European colonization of the Americas|colonization]] - while the population in 1492 is estimated at up to 90 million. True, many died because of new [[Disease|diseases]] which the colonizers had involuntarily brought with them, and many died not by massacre but under the hardships of [[slavery]] (which also happened to many prisoners in the [[The Holocaust|Nazi work camps]]), but the number of literally massacred people still amounted to millions. In North America too, the 2 million native inhabitants of Patagonia (southern [[Chile]] and Argentina) were gradually but systematically killed to the last, as were all the inhabitants of [[Tasmania]] in a single campaign, and most of the [[Indigenous Australians|aboriginals of Australia]]: in these cases, the [[Genocide of indigenous peoples|genocide]] was entirely intentional.
** [[Koenraad Elst]], ''Negationism in India'' (1992)

===F===
* In the immediate period, millions in the {{w|hospitality industry}}, in [[wikipedia:Leisure industry|leisure]] and [[wikipedia:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism|tourism]], in [[wikipedia:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on retail|retail]] and services, and in [[wikipedia:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation|aviation]] are being laid off without pay or fired outright. But the entire edifice of [[Global financial system|global finance]] is crumbling and we could easily see a generalised {{w|economic collapse}} across the entire system. Talk of the irrationality of [[capitalism]] is [[wikipedia:Criticism of capitalism|being posted]] everywhere. Extensive industrial collapse could create millions of [[Unemployment|unemployed]]. A banking collapse would impoverish millions more at a stroke. This is what the government's [[authoritarian]] new bill is preparing for — a repetition in Britain and on a global scale of the kind of economic and {{w|social collapse}} that happened in [[wikipedia:1998–2002 Argentine great depression|Argentina in 2001–2]], when most [[Working class|working-class]] and middle-class people lost [[wikipedia:Corralito|all their savings]] and millions lost their jobs. Mass social and political anger could shake the system to its foundations, and those in power are preparing for emergency measures against radical "{{w|subversives}}" — [[wikipedia:British Left|left-wing]] activists, [[trade unionists]], social activists — liable to lead mass [[Resistance movement|resistance]]. This, it seems, could take the form of mass detention without trial.
** [[Neil Faulkner (archaeologist)|Neil Faulkner]], ''[https://www.timetomutiny.org/post/mass-deaths-mass-poverty-mass-repression Mass Deaths, Mass Poverty, Mass Repression]'', co-written with Phil Hearse, 20 March 2020, ''Mutiny''

* [[Human rights]] are not only violated by [[terrorism]], repression or [[assassination]], but also by unfair [[economic]] structures that creates huge inequalities.
** [[Pope Francis]], Said in criticism of the government of [[wikipedia:Néstor Kirchner|Néstor Kirchner]], former President of Argentina, in 2009, as quoted in [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/13/jorge-mario-bergoglio-pope-poverty "Pope Francis: the humble pontiff with practical approach to poverty" by Mark Rice-Oxley, in ''The Guardian'' (13 March 2013)]

* The rights and the circumstances of the people in the Falkland Islands must be uppermost in our minds. There is no question in the Falkland Islands of any [[British Empire|colonial dependence]] or anything of the sort. It is a question of people who wish to be associated with this country and who have built their whole lives on the basis of association with this country. We have a moral duty, a political duty and every other kind of duty to ensure that that is sustained. The people of the Falkland Islands have the absolute right to look to us at this moment of their desperate plight, just as they have looked to us over the past 150 years. They are faced with an act of naked, unqualified [[War of aggression|aggression]], carried out in the most shameful and disreputable circumstances. Any guarantee from this invading force is utterly worthless—as worthless as any of the guarantees that are given by this same Argentine junta to its own people.
** [[Michael Foot]], [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1982/apr/03/falkland-islands Speech] in the House of Commons after Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands (3 April 1982)

* The one on the right concerned the shift from an older understanding of [[economic liberalism]] to what is now called "[[neoliberalism]]." Neoliberalism is ''not''... a synonym for [[capitalism]]. I don't see how you can have any kind of modern economy without a [[Market economy|market based economy]]. Neoliberalism took that basic insight and stretched it to an extreme seeking to [[wikipedia:Deregulation|deregulate]], [[Privatization|privatize]] and basically pull back the role of the [[state]], which many neoliberals regarded as simply obstacles to individuals, to entrepreneurship, to economic growth, and as a result markets did their usual work. They produced a great deal of [[inequality]]''',''' as... [[Multinational corporation|global corporations]] searched for very small cost advantages by moving jobs to low cost areas... [T]hey destabilized the global economy '''in''' certain important ways by deregulating the financial sector. As a result of the deregulation that occurred in the 1980s and 90s we had an escalating series of financial crises. In the [[wikipedia:Black Wednesday|sterling crisis]], the [[1997 Asian financial crisis|Asian financial crisis]], [[wikipedia:1998–2002 Argentine great depression|Argentina]], [[wikipedia:1998 Russian financial crisis|Russia]], and finally culminating in the big [[Financial crisis of 2007–08|American subprime crisis in 2008]]. The... cumulative effects of this instability were political and they were very serious because many ordinary people were hurt... a lot of people lost their homes, lost their jobs, and the [[Elite|elites]] that ran these big banks and financial institutions suffered only a momentary disruption in their incomes, and went on to continue to dominate their respective economies... [T]his had a direct impact on the rise of [[populism]] in subsequent years, both on the right and on the left.
** [[Francis Fukuyama]], A YouTube Creative Commons video, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6KcRCQpoM&t=205s Francis Fukuyama - Liberalism for the Twenty-First Century] (May 31, 2022) from the YouTube channel IIEA, representing [https://www.iiea.com The Institute of International and European Affairs], Ireland’s leading independent, not-for-profit international affairs think tank providing a debate and discussion forum to evaluate and share policy options for EU and International affairs, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6KcRCQpoM&t=774s 12:54]

===G===
* We must all believe in ourselves and together raise our national banner high as a symbol of freedom so that it can fly [[Sovereignty|sovereignly]] and definitively over our great fatherland. This will not prevent us from persisting in our tradition as a peace-loving nation and from respecting all world nations, nor will it prevent us from resuming with dignity, through friendly gestures stemming from our natural generosity, [[Diplomacy|diplomatic negotiations]] which may give an institutional basis to the situation which we have achieved, clearly safeguard- ing those legitimate interests we have always respected. Our arms will always be extended to conclude noble commitments and to forget past offences for the sake of building a peaceful future for the civilized world. Glory to the great Argentine people
** [[Leopoldo Galtieri]], [https://teachwar.wordpress.com/resources/war-justifications-archive/falklandsmalvinas-war-1982/#arg1 President Galtieri’s address to the nation], 2 April 1982

* The nobility... of the Argentine people, in this square and all the country’s squares, causes us to offer our hand to the adversary, but this must not be taken as weak- ness. If it is necessary, the people, whose feelings I try to interpret as [[President]] of the nation, will be ready... to offer a hand, a gesture of peace with nobility and in a gesture of peace with honour, but they will also be ready to teach a lesson to anyone who dares to touch a square metre of Argentine territory.
** [[Leopoldo Galtieri]], [https://teachwar.wordpress.com/resources/war-justifications-archive/falklandsmalvinas-war-1982/#arg5 Speech], 10 April 1982

===H===
* [[Greta Thunberg]] and a group of other [[children]] have pushed forward their legal complaint at the [[United Nations|UN]] against countries they accuse of endangering children’s wellbeing through the [[climate crisis]], despite attempts to have it thrown out. The 16 children, including the [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Environmentalism|environmental activist]], lodged a legal case with the UN committee on the rights of the child against Argentina, [[Brazil]], [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Turkey]] last September. They alleged that the countries – which are legally obliged to protect children under the UN convention on the rights of the child – breached those obligations by failing to protect them from the “direct, imminent and foreseeable risk to their health and wellbeing” posed by the climate crisis.
** [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/greta-thunberg-and-childrens-group-hit-back-at-attempt-to-throw-out-climate-case Greta Thunberg and children's group hit back at attempt to throw out climate case, Fiona Harvey, ''The Guardian''] (5 May 2020)

===I===
* …the anti-cult campaigns by [Pablo Gastón] Salum and the PROTEX may indeed put the Argentinian [[democracy]] at risk.
** [[Massimo Introvigne]], [https://bitterwinter.org/argentina-how-the-jesus-christians-defeated-pablo-salum-and-protex/ "Argentina: How the Jesus Christians Defeated Pablo Salum and PROTEX"], ''Bitter Winter'' (May 2, 2023).
** PROTEX is described by ''Bitter Winter'' as "an Argentinian special prosecutorial office ... (Procuraduría para el Combate de la Trata y Explotación de Personas, Office of the Procurator for Combating the Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons)".

===J===
* Until the end of [[World War II]], Argentina and [[Australia]] were running in parallel. Today, they separately demonstrate what a luxury it is to be a [[Liberal democracy|stable, prosperous, democratic nation]] with a dependable [[Constitutions|constitution]]. Australia is all that and more, and Argentina, after yet another implosion of the [[Civil society|civil order]], is once again none of it and less.
** [[Clive James]], ''Cultural Amnesia'' (2007)

===K===
* While [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva|Lula]]’s rise to power occurred without major institutional fractures, [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner|Kirchner]] reached the presidency unexpectedly after a turbulent sequence of temporary governments. What in [[Brazil]] was a calm transfer of power, in [[Argentina]] was a delicate operation to restore the [[credibility]] of the state in the face of mass rejection of the political system (expressed in the slogan ‘''que se vayan todos''’ – get rid of the lot of them). Lula marks the final phase of the transformation of the PT{{note|''Partido dos Trabalhadores'' (Workers Party), which grew out of working class opposition to the military dictatorship of 1964–1985.}} into a classic [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] party, breaking with its [[Left-wing politics|left wing]] past and becoming integrated into a bipartisan system. Its patronage finances an army of bureaucrats who upheld the expulsion of those members of parliament opposed to the pension reforms. This transformation of a popular movement into an appendage of [[Capitalism|capitalist]] domination was what happened with Peronism{{note|Peronism, the movement named after military president Juan Peron, who ruled Argentina in the postwar years in conditions which enabled him to give big reforms for the working class without damaging capitalism. Overthrown by a coup in 1955 and driven into exile, his movement, the PJ, retained enormous working class support through subsequent decades.}} a long time ago. Kirchner was able to renew yet again the party that has guaranteed [[governability]] for the [[ruling class]]. But he has shown an uncharacteristic duplicity, veiling clientilism with gestures in defence of [[human rights]], the independence of the [[judiciary]] and an attack on [[corruption]].
** Claudio Katz, ''Latin America’s new ‘left’ governments'' (''International Socialism'' 2 : 107, Summer 2005.)

* The [[Coup d'état|coups]], [[War|wars]] and [[Genocide|slaughters]] to instill and maintain pro-corporate regimes have never been treated as [[Capitalism|capitalist]] crimes but have instead been written off as the excess of overzealous [[Dictatorship|dictators]], as hot fronts in the [[Cold War]], and now of the [[War on terror|War on Terror]]. If the most committed opponents of the corporatist economic model are systematically eliminated, whether in Argentina in the [[1970s|seventies]] or in [[Iraq]] today, that suppression is explained... almost never as the fight for the advancement of pure capitalism.
** [[Naomi Klein]], ''The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism'' (2007)

===N===
* Brazil, Argentina, and [[Colombia]] have refused to send weapons to [[Ukraine]], despite pressure by the US and EU. [[Latin America|Latin American]] [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] leaders have urged peace with [[Russia]] and called for [[neutrality]] in [[Cold War II|the West’s new cold war]]. Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia have rejected requests by the [[United States]] and [[European Union]] that they send weapons to Ukraine. The commander of the [[United States Armed Forces|US military]]’s Southern Command (Southcom), which operates in Latin America and the Caribbean, revealed on January 19 that Washington has been pressuring countries in the region to arm Ukraine.  Southcom wants Latin American nations to “replace [their] Russian equipment with United States equipment – if those countries want to donate it to Ukraine”, said Army General Laura J. Richardson.  But Latin America’s left-wing leaders have refused, instead maintaining neutrality and urging peace.  The [[Socialism|socialist]] governments in [[Cuba]], [[Venezuela]], and [[Nicaragua]] blamed [[NATO]] expansion and US meddling for causing the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|war in Ukraine]].  [[Mexico]]’s [[Progressivism|progressive]] President [[Andrés Manuel López Obrador]] (AMLO) offered to hold peace talks to end the conflict.  And the leftist governments in [[Bolivia]] and [[Honduras]] have joined Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia in refusing to be part of the [USA's] proxy war.
** Ben Norton, [https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/29/latin-america-ukraine-weapons-brazil-colombia-argentina/ Latin America refuses to send Ukraine weapons, despite Western pressure, ''Geo Political Economy Report''], (29 January 2023)

===O===
* It's the dreamers -- no matter how humble or poor or seemingly powerless -- that are able to change the course of human events. We saw it in [[South Africa]], where citizens stood up to the scourge of [[wikipedia:Apartheid|apartheid]].  We saw it in [[Eastern Europe|Europe]], where [[Poland|Poles]] marched in [[wikipedia:Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] to help bring down the [[wikipedia:Iron Curtain|Iron Curtain]]. In Argentina, where mothers of the disappeared spoke out against the [[wikipedia:Dirty War|Dirty War]]. It’s the story of my country, where [[Citizenship|citizens]] worked to abolish [[wikipedia:Slavery in the United States|slavery]], and establish [[Women's rights|women’s rights]] and [[w:Workers’_rights|workers’ rights]], and [[LGBT rights in the United States|rights for gays and lesbians]].
** [[Barack Obama]], [https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/10/remarks-president-obama-civil-society-forum Remarks by President Obama at the Panama Civil Society Forum at Hotel El Panama, Panama City, Panama (April 10, 2015)]

===R===
* Don't cry for me, Argentina! The truth is, I never left you! All through my wild days, my mad existence, I kept my promise, Don't keep your distance.
** [[Tim Rice]], "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina", ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]'' (1978).

* As a Rioplatense person of [[White people|European decent]], I feel strongly about the urgency of retelling the stories of our nation’s histories, the Argentinian and Uruguayan national stories and cultural stories, in ways that fully recognize the presence of [[black people]]. Which is a huge part of the greater story of the [[Americas]] as well. You cannot tell the story of the Americas without the story of black people and the [[Atlantic slave trade|transatlantic slave trade]] — that mass atrocity. Alongside, of course, the [[Genocide of indigenous peoples|genocide of indigenous people]]. And also the cultural richness and artistic production and stories of resilience and power that, too, come out of those harsh realities that are at the origin of the Americas.
** [[Carolina de Robertis]], On telling the histories of Uruguay and Argentina in [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/conversation-carolina-de-robertis-immigration-sexuality-true-origins-tango/ "A Conversation with Carolina De Robertis on Immigration, Sexuality, and the True Origins of the Tango"] in Los Angeles Review of Books (2016 Apr 20)

* Despite powerful mobilizations that brought them to power, the [[Progressivism|progressive]] administrations in [[wikipedia:Argentina|Argentina]], [[Bolivia]], [[Ecuador]], and [[Venezuela]] discovered that structural constraints closed off the possibilities for systemic change. Two decades of neoliberalism had so transformed the class structure of these countries that the social base of {{w|Pink Tide}} governments, while militant, had little economic leverage against capital. Backed primarily by workers in the informal economy and marginalized communities, [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] governments simply lacked the leverage to challenge ruling classes.
** René Rojas, "[https://catalyst-journal.com/vol4/no2/the-end-of-progressive-neoliberalism The End of Progressive Neoliberalism]". ''Catalyst'', 2020.

* We meet to-day, representing the people of this continent, from the [[Canada|Dominion of Canada]] in the north, to [[Chile]] and the Argentine in the south; representing [[Immigration|people who have traveled far and fast]] in [[19th century|the last century]], because in them has been practically shown that is the spirit of adventure which is maker of commonwealths; people who are learning and striving to put into practice the vital truth that [[freedom]] is the necessary first step, but only the first step, in successful free government... We of the two Americas must be left to work out our own salvation along our own lines; and if we are wise we will make it understood as a cardinal feature of our joint foreign policy that, on the one hand, we will not submit to territorial aggrandizement on this continent by any Old Power, and on the other hand, among ourselves each nation must scrupulously regard the rights and interests of others, so that, instead of any one of us committing the criminal folly of trying to rise at the expense of our neighbors, we shall strive upward in honest and manly brotherhood, shoulder to shoulder.
** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/669.pdf "The Two Americas"], speech delivered at the formal opening of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 20 May 1901; published in ''[[The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses]]'' (1910).

===S===
* These days, the [[American Dream|American dream]] is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as [[Ecuador]], [[Venezuela]] and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of [[w:Horatio_Alger|Horatio Alger]]. Who's the banana republic now?
** [[Bernie Sanders]], [https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-gaps-disparities-that-threaten-america Close The Gaps: Disparities That Threaten America], Valley News, 5 August 2011

* [[Economics]] is a difficult subject, because we cannot conduct controlled experiments. There are not two or three Argentina's, one following the experiment that I described above, and another adopting the policies that I prefer. But we do have a wealth of experience from which to draw inferences. This wealth of experience all points in one direction: [[John Maynard Keynes|Keynes]]'s teachings are still very much alive, and Argentina today would be in far better shape if his lessons had been taken to heart.
** [[Joseph E. Stiglitz]], "Is Keynesian Economics Dead?", ''Project Syndicate'' (2002).

===T===
* I must tell the House that the [[wikipedia:Falkland_Islands|Falkland Islands]] and their dependencies remain [[United Kingdom|British]] territory. No aggression and no invasion can alter that simple fact. It is the [[Government of the United Kingdom|Government]]'s objective to see that the islands are freed from occupation and are returned to British administration at the earliest possible moment...We cannot allow the democratic rights of the islanders to be denied by the territorial ambitions of Argentina.
** [[Margaret Thatcher]], [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104910 Speech in the House of Commons (3 April 1982)]

===V===
* As many people as necessary must die in Argentina so that the country will again be secure.
** [[Jorge Rafael Videla]], 1975, as quoted in Adam Bernstein (May 17 2013). "Jorge Rafael Videla, ruthless Argentine junta leader, dies at 87". ''The Washington Post''.

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