Argentina the Outcast

Argentina the Outcast

Roughly 20 years ago, an important Argentine minister startled a newly arrived Brazilian ambassador by telling him that 'Argentina is prodigal in three things: meat, wheat, and insane gestures.' The decision to expropriate 51% of YPF, Argentina's biggest energy firm, from the Spanish company Repsol is one of those gestures. Added to its contempt for foreign creditors, and to the growing and arbitrary protectionism that violates all global and regional rules, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's decision pushes Argentina closer to being deemed internationally as a lawless country.

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