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Re: *** MIT Forum on Argentina Crisis (this Wednesday) ***
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio carpintero)
Wed May 29 15:49:16 2002
From: "Antonio carpintero" <eltoniromano@hotmail.com>
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Pero que crisis? Si Argentina va a ganar el Mundial....
>From: Martin Hunter <mhunter@MIT.EDU>
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>Subject: *** MIT Forum on Argentina Crisis (this Wednesday) ***
>Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:32:49 -0400
>
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>THE ARGENTINA CRISIS:
>MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
>
>Panel Discussion
>
>Wednesday 15th May, 7pm
>MIT Room 54-100
>77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
>(tallest building on campus, 1st floor lecture hall)
>
>Prof. Rita Arditti (Union Institute & University)
>Prof. Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir (Tufts University)
>Dr. Martin Hunter (MIT)
>
>Sponsored by MIT Club Argentino, Social Justrice Cooperative and MIT Greens
>
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>*****************
>
>Argentina is in the midst of a severe socio-economic crisis. Burdened with
>a
>150 billion dollar foreign debt, which saps 30% of the federal budget in
>interest payments alone, the unemployment rate has soared over 20% and the
>economy’s growth rate has plummeted from 8% to less than 1% in the last
>five
>years. Austerity measures a prerequisite for IMF and World Bank foreign
>debt
>repayment loans have been felt heavily by the population, which has seen
>its
>purchasing power halved since 1997. 50% of the population of this once
>prosperous country now lives below the poverty line (earnings less than
>$2/day), and recent monetary devaluations have decimated private savings
>accounts. In this atmosphere, popular unrest has erupted with unprecedented
>force, primarily in the form of peaceful demonstrations demanding sweeping
>changes within the country's discredited political leadership. Two
>presidents
>have been ousted by popular demand since December 2001, and public
>demonstrations continue to pressure for dismissal of the entire Supreme
>Court,
>and a call for national elections for a new president and Legislative
>Assembly.
>
>How is Argentina coping with this crisis? Why is the country in such dire
>economic straits, despite having followed the IMF and World Bank
>prescriptions
>for structural adjustment to the tee, throughout the 1990s? What is the
>historical background, socially and politically, behind the country's
>revolt
>against its current political leadership? What are the alternatives for the
>future?
>
>Please join us for a panel discussion on these issues, featuring several
>Latin
>American academics currently residing in the Boston area.
>
>For directions, see:
>http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?state=0&pri.x=334&pri.y=136
>
>
>PANELISTS:
>
>Rita Arditti (Graduate Faculty, The Union Institute & University)
>Co-founder of New Words, a women's bookstore, and of the Women's Community
>Cancer Project. She is currently working with faculty and students at the
>University of Massachusetts in Boston to create a Human Rights Center and
>academic program. Rita was born and grew up in Argentina, and has written a
>book documenting the search of Argentina's Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo
>for
>children who "disappeared" during the military regime of 1976-83 (Searching
>for
>Life: The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of
>Argentina, 1999).
>
>Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir (Professor of Latin American Literature and Latin
>American
>Studies,Tufts University)
>A native Argentinean, currently teaching Latin American literature at Tufts
>University. She has recently returned from a visit to Argentina and will
>discuss the political and socio-economic setting of the current crisis.
>
>Martin Hunter (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemistry Dept., MIT)
>Born and raised in Argentina, currently conducting research on biomedical
>optics at MIT. Martin will summarize material from Indymedia Argentina
>discussing the recent social unrest and the growth of grass-roots political
>organizations.
>
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