Social Genocide Page #7

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from the BCCI,

a bank that laundered drug-money,

that financed

There is a definite complicity

between the political class,

the narcotraffickers,

and encouragement of capital flight.

Kickbacks

Plunder of public funds

via dividends

and rate-overcharging

was the norm

for government contracts.

Over 20% of government investments

is estimated

to have vanished in "commissions".

Minister Manzano said,

referring to the President:

"I steal for the crown."

A major source of corruption

was the PAMI,

the pensioners' health-insurance

organization.

The system of illicit contracts

made with companies

owned by bureaucrats

lasted during several governments.

A monument to corruption

The Yacyret Dam, N.E. Argentina

Yacyret is one of the biggest

earthfill dams in the world,

with a retaining dam

on the river Paran

that is 67km long.

This huge worksite,

financed by Argentineans,

fed the country's slush funds,

ever since the dictatorship.

How did corruption

at Yacyret dam operate?

Overestimation of costs,

overdue work schedules.

Today, the site,

is still not completed,

and still generates costs.

It has reached

And we still don't know

when it will end.

I'll give you an example:

In 1985,

there was a cost reappraisal

estimated at 30 million dollars,

that was presented several times

to the World Bank

and the Inter-American Bank

of Development.

It was finally signed in 1989

for 180 million dollars.

Many accepted it.

Some didn't.

They were excluded from Yacyret

by the auditors.

- You, among others?

- Yes.

- Who headed the auditing firm?

- Mr. Carretoni.

He was campaign-manager

for Alfonsn,

then for Angeloz.

A member of the Assembly?

Yes, for the reform

of the Constitution in 1994.

Mr. Carretoni, owned the leading

auditing firm in Argentina,

and was the father-in-law

of the construction company's boss.

Say that again...

Mr. Carretoni

was the father-in-law of Mr. Risso.

So the head of the audit cabinet

that had to control costs,

completion date

and technical quality,

was the builder's father-in-law?

Precisely.

Arms smuggling

We sent arms to Ecuador,

that was at war with Peru,

when Argentina was guaranteeing

a truce between the two countries.

We also sent arms

to Croatia and Bosnia,

violating UN dispositions.

Those implicated

were the Army factories,

the top army brass,

the Ro Tercero factory,

through which most arms passed

coming from the North,

a free-zone.

What happened?

The Ro Tercero factory

was blown up, causing 7 deaths.

As I started

a procedure in March, 1995,

they tried to erase

all traces of the explosion,

all documents,

inventories, fingerprints,

anything that could prove

that it wasn't an accident,

but a planned act

to conceal their crime.

Who was part of this plot?

Its leader was

an ex-president of the republic,

Carlos Menem,

but many others are implicated.

Many other shady events occurred:

"Suicides",

accidental deaths...

A helicopter crashed

opposite the race track,

on a polo field,

causing the death of a key figure...

General Andreoli...

The "suicide" with his wrong hand

of Captain Estrada,

who had been part

of the "terror groups",

during the country's darkest hours.

Today,

a question needs to be clarified:

Where's the money they stole?

Carlos Menem,

his brother-in-law Emir Yoma,

Cavallo and others,

implicated in arms smuggling,

were arrested.

But the Supreme Court

set them free.

These offenses

concerned leaders at all levels.

Ministers, judges,

top bureaucrats

were hauled into law-courts

for corruption.

Neo-Peronists:
Alberto Kohan,

Gerardo Sofovich,

Juan Carlos Alderete,

Matilde Menndez,

Mara Julia Alsogaray,

Carlos Grosso, Claudia Bello,

Triaca, Dadone, Grisanti,

Amira and Emir Yoma,

Vico and Spadone.

Radical civil servants:

Delconte, Mazorino

and many others.

Presidential candidates:

Angeloz and Massachessi.

I'll lead the struggle

against corruption.

All the cases were dismissed

The threats concerned

a gold exporting business,

with phony financial records.

The gold mafia

"If you don't want trouble...

Drug trafficking

"...stay out of this."

They slashed my arm.

During the Menem years...

"Parallel" Customs officers

... the mafiosi thrived

under an obliging government,

and have ever since.

The Buenos Aires police mafia

Among their deeds:

Abductions for extortion,

murders...

IBM-Banco Nacin affair

... car thefts,

trigger-happy deaths,

fake accidents

and unexplained suicides.

Deadly bomb attacks

Israeli Embassy

AMIA Jewish center

Crimes still unpunished

The betrayals of the Alliance

In the Argentina

of the mafia organizations,

the Alliance campaigns

on promises to create jobs

and fight corruption,

but without altering the economic

model or the foreign debt.

Made up of the Radical party

and center-left parties,

it promises to investigate

bureaucrats, but disregards

corrupt privatizations

or financial plundering.

Good luck!

The team of Fernando De la Ra

and Carlos Alvarez

beats the neo-Peronist candidate

Eduardo Duhalde.

The new government continues

the IMF's recessionist policy.

Long live De la Ra!

Don't disappoint us!

Once more,

the voters mandate is betrayed:

Civil servants' salaries

are lowered

and taxes raised.

In Spain, De la Ra,

offers to extend

the concession of Argentina's

richest gas reserves,

Loma de la Lata,

to the Repsol oil company.

Worth 50 billion dollars,

they are illicitly surrendered

for 300 million dollars.

The government bribes the Senate

to get it to pass

a controversial labor law.

Vice-president Alvarez

doesn't question the law,

but wants the bribery investigated.

I hereby resign irrevocably

as vice-president of the Nation,

so as not to harm the President,

or jeopardize our institutions...

Alvarez abandons his voters

and works

for the return of Cavallo.

Appointed again as a super-Minister,

Cavallo renegotiates the debt.

This operation,

baptized "mega-exchange",

is another swindle

that costs the country

55 billion dollars.

The "Argentinean miracle"

ended in social disaster.

Cavallo's plans

wiped out the middle class,

made the rich richer

and the poor poorer.

60% of the wealth

wound up in the hands

of the richest 10%.

People are suffering!

People are hungry!

We're not guerrillas!

De la Ra opts for repression:

Two unemployed youths

are murdered in Corrientes,

as a bridge

is cleared of protesters,

3 "piqueteros"

are gunned down in Salta and Jujuy.

Never had an elected president

caused so many deaths

in such short time.

SOCIAL GENOCIDE:

Here, we foresaw exactly

the effects of the austerity plans

adopted by the country.

The well-known austerity plans,

of the era of Alfonsn, of Menem...

These measures

meant the hospital would receive

a huge number

of underfed people,

underfed kids with their families.

We would say to each other:

"This one, in 2 or 3 months,

will need a bed."

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