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      The other candidate was the current finance minister. After over a year of hyperinflation you’d have to have a lot of faith to go with the guy that hasn’t been able to deal with the issue while in power.

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          Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong, he’s going to make things so much worse. But if you’re going to put a candidate forward in this environment, going with the guy who was literally in charge instead of a clear left alternative seems bad, strategically.

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        Does the US even want Argentina to do this? Argentina is such a black hole economically and with so many different creditors already, that trying to integrate Argentina any more into the American Orbit risks destabilizing the whole thing.

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          There’s a huge movement in the direction of dedollarisation in the global South. The state department would definitely be happy to see a country go into the other direction. Plus there’s a whole bunch of state assets that are probably going to go on a fire sale, so Argentina can look forward to being effectively owned by Blackrock for the next century or so.