Macri orders that Argentine inflation figures not be published until further notice.

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5. That's a good analogy - October surprise and all.

It's pretty much established fact now, as you know, that Bush and Casey negotiated the delay of the hostages' release until the day Ronzo took over (Kissinger even "predicted" as much, practically down to the minute, to Walter Cronkite during CBS Election Night coverage that year).

Macri's goons did something similar this year with the help of the "Fox News of Argentina," the Clarín Group: Martín Lanatta, a felon serving a life sentence for aggravated murder (he was also a speed trafficker), claimed on television (i.e. not under oath) that a close ally of President Cristina Kirchner had "ordered a murder of three crooks in 2008."

His name or anyone else's had never come up in 7 years, and of course no evidence - even circumstantial - was provided; but it worked: the claim, aired over and over on right-wing cable news, was decisive in Macri's narrow victory as President and Vidal's election as Governor of Buenos Aires (Vidal, an extremist Opus Dei Catholic who's opposed to abortion even in cases of incest or ectopic pregnancy, is a close Macri ally).

Three weeks after Vidal took office as governor, guess what happened: Lanatta, his brother, and an accomplice "escaped" from a maximum-security prison. They had prison guard uniforms and even the keys to a guard's car. http://www.democraticunderground.com/110846561

Anyway, I wanted to wish you a Happy New Year bemildred! Best wishes to you and yours for 2016.