argentina, a 7 años de la rebelión popular

we are approaching the 7th anniversary of argentina's popular uprising which, beginning in 2001, unleashed the fury of an entire population on the ruling class. as a christmas / new year's / reyes present the good people of argentina chased out of office 5 presidents in less than two weeks and smashed the windows of virtually all banks in the downtown areas of buenos aires and other cities.

here's a nice little tango about the economic crisis and popular revolt, interspersed with interviews with schoolchildren about those same events...

el tango de los 4 vampiros banqueros / the tango of the 4 vampire-bankers : las muñecas



and here's an announcement for a celebration of 7 years of popular rebellion to take place in parque centenario in buenos aires, sent along by héctor & gabriel. ¡saludos desde la área de la bahía, compañeros!



for a beautiful retelling of the events of 2001-2, please see fernando pino solanas' la dignidad de los nadies. ¡bravo, solanas! and for the perspective of argentine leftist economists, please see this 2004 document by economistas de izquierda reprinted in monthly review, and in argentina stop by el museo de la deuda externa / museum of the foreign debt at the school of economics at the university of buenos aires.