Dear Lou,
The links below give lots of food for thought as a background to the WPost article on Wall Street and Argentinean debt. I guess Marxmail readers might be interested in them.
http://www.jubilee2000uk.org/analysis/reports/it_takes_two_to_tango.pdf (illustrated with a beautiful tango pic)
http://www.fordham.edu/economics/vinod/cie/argentina.htm
http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmemails/wmemails7.html
http://www.globalfairtrade.ca/illegitimatedebt.pdf
http://www.kairoscanada.org/docs/EJR-Spring02.pdf (including exceptional graph showing that foreign debt was the source of capital flight from Argentina)
These are _some_ of the results of a Google search for "Alejandro Olmos" debt "Argentina" "Wall Street"
Lic. Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky I N D E C
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