State control, print money, attack free press...Hmmm

http://tinyurl.com/yz5ckln
Argentina's Kirchner Targets the Press
As the state-run economy hits the skids, the government responds with a crackdown on the free press. By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
...in a bad economy is to wrest control...and start printing lots of pesos....a government that expects to survive will find it necessary to silence its critics. Just ask Argentines, who are living all of this in real time...The story of how Argentina got here is important to recall...A demoralized nation was looking for a savior. It thought it found one in Néstor Kirchner... the market, he maintained, had failed...He demonized the private-sector and investors. Using price controls, subsidies and regulation he made himself a Robin Hood to the masses. The legislature granted him extraordinary powers...popular dissatisfaction showed up at the polls in the June midterm elections, when Mrs. Kirchner's wing of the Peronist party lost badly....Mrs. Kirchner and her husband have decided that they lost because of bad press coverage....This is why the president forced a media law through the legislature two weeks ago, creating a new "audio-visual" regulatory board controlled by the executive....philosopher and writer Santiago Kovadloff summed up opposition sentiment about the government's use of "the law" to consolidate power: "The law has become a beloved tool of corruption," Mr. Kovadloff wrote. "The executive has put it at its service. It manipulates it with skill." And where does that leave society? "Insecurity is no longer a threat. We are in the jungle." ****Argentina North in the making?****