A few new facts coming in on that Argentinian mega IMF loan.
Recently in one of his videos Pepe Escobar stated that Argentina has, or will, withdraw its application to join BRICS.
Ben Norton reports:
Argentina just made a deal with the US-controlled IMF for a loan to… pay back another loan to the IMF.
The IMF is the master of imperial debt traps.
When Argentina was ruled by right-wing oligarch President Macri, the Trump admin ordered the IMF to give him the biggest loan… pic.twitter.com/k63XKWt2se
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) July 29, 2023
Trump's top Latin America policy official and former US director of the IMF, Mauricio Claver-Carone, admitted that the Trump admin ordered the IMF to give Argentina's right-wing President Macri the biggest loan in history to help him in the 2019 electionshttps://t.co/ufDkcr4mG0
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) July 29, 2023
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