Argentina's Macri forced to cancel independence day parade by military over wage dispute

[sandensea]

Argentina's Defense Ministry confirmed that this year's independence day parade in the nation's capital, scheduled for July 9, will not be held.

Sources confirmed that they were forced to suspend the event, traditionally held along Buenos Aires' upscale Libertador Avenue, due to generalized military discontent with President Mauricio Macri's proposed wage hikes of 8% for officers and 15% for junior personnel.

Inflation in Argentina has soared in the first half of this year to an annualized rate of 36%.

The proposed reduction in real pay for the nation's 75,000 armed forces, as well as 700,000 other federal employees, is part of some $9 billion in budget cuts Macri agreed to with the IMF on June 8 in exchange for a record $50 billion stand-by credit line.

Opponents note that besides unconstitutionally overriding Congress' budgetary authority, the terms of the IMF bailout are recessionary and do little to curb a projected $40 billion current account deficit this year - the very cause of the crisis.

While not the only independence day military parade in Argentina, the Libertador Avenue event is the most politically important for Macri, who reinstated the tradition in 2016 after a 25-year absence.

His right-wing administration had pledged to enhance the military's role in civic life decades after the last military dictatorship discredited its armed forces through a "Dirty War" against dissidents in 1976 and the 1982 Falklands War.

Macri has recently proposed using the armed forces for policing and riot control.

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Last year's Argentine independence day parade in Buenos Aires.

Sharp budget cuts this year prompted the armed forces to rain on Macri's parade instead.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Oh, my! A ton of problems brought to life involved in this moment!

It would have been so much smarter for Macri if he hadn't immediately announced his intention to "Make the Dirty War Military Great Again" right before his economic moves reduced the value of their salaries severely. Now they won't have to worry about what they were going to do with all their excess "walking around money."

A bright leader shouldn't want to turn the military, one with the reputation developed during the last fascist dictatorship's reign of terror, against him by disrespecting the soldiers, treating them as property rather than human beings, and feeding them a steady diet of lies and false promises.

It's a rare situation when the very military a new leader hopes to use as a bludgeon against the inevitable tide of dissent starts feeling the impact of his abuse. That's one group of people he shouldn't abuse, and expect them to take their abuse in silence.
Who would he use to keep them in line, anyway?

Thanks for the unexpected information, sandensea.

[sandensea]

2. Macri thought that by releasing a few old torturers from jail, he'd have the military wrapped

around his little finger, sitting on his lap like a Poodle - or Rottweiler, as the need arose.

As Cheeto likes to say: Wrrrong.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Suddenly felt real nausea just thinking about what he has done.

I don't think I had learned that he had been allowing some of the deeply evil ones to go home, to run loose, to thumb their noses at the world, and horrify the survivors of their terrorism.

Should be interesting to see what cheap trick he'll pull next to try to win their loyalty. Hope that one falls flat, also.

A Rottweiler as Macri's lapdog is a good image.

[sandensea]

4. And what a Rottweiler:

Security Minister Patricia Bullrich (3rd from right) with Gendarmerie officers.

She was hoping to turn them into Macri's shock troops; but the murder of two activists last year by Gendarmerie fire (Santiago Maldonado and Rafael Nahuel) has pretty much scotched those plans.

It's the same with this woman Kristjen Nielsen (Trump's DHS Secretary); you have to watch them, of they go full Brownshirt.