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forest444

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2. They in fact reportedly provided the "Ecuatorian public relations firm" referenced by Wiesbrot.
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 09:15 PM
Nov 2015

The "firm" refers to dirty tricks adviser Jaime Durán Barba, a failed literary reviewer who found his calling in the late '90s doing psy-ops work for the CIA in Ecuador, Paraguay, and elsewhere in the region.

He really earned his keep with this election, I'd say. On the other hand if Macri does not restrain himself in enacting the IMF shtick, he won't hesitate in throwing Durán Barba under the bus if the voters begin yelling ¡Fuera Macrisis!.

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