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Judi Lynn

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Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:41 PM Mar 2016

The Plot Thickens: Obama Meets Billionaire’s Puppet Macri in Argentina

The Plot Thickens: Obama Meets Billionaire’s Puppet Macri in Argentina



22:52 23.03.2016(updated 22:58 23.03.2016)

Days after an historic visit to Cuba, President Obama meets with a vulture capitalist’s handpicked leader in Argentina, for political damage control.

​Loud & Clear's Brian Becker sat down with journalist and author Greg Palast to speak about President Obama’s trip to Argentina and how vulture capitalists targeted the country and its previous left-wing government.

Why is President Obama visiting Argentina now?

"It is clear that he is going there to balance out the fact that he was with these old revolutionary commies in Cuba," Palast told Loud & Clear. "Now he is going to Argentina because they just threw out their leftist government and replaced it with a new right-wing president who just took office named Mauricio Macri."

What are the differences between Macri and the Kirchner government that just left?

"For the dozen years the left wing government was in power, it was headed by Nestor and Kristina Kirchner. They were very much in line with the politics of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, old left-wing politics," explained Palast.

Palast stated that the leftist politics that divided the national resources of copper, oil, gas, and gold to the working class and poor actually led to an economic resurgence in Latin American countries, prior to a collapse in commodities prices.

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