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peppertree

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2. The "Trump of the Pampas" as they called Macri

Reply to ck4829 (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 08:18 PM

Dec 2021

And sure enough, he and his allied judges and officials (including this man Villegas) were doing to their critics what Trump wanted to do here if he could.

Argentina, as you know, has a long and sordid history of malicious prosecutions - or worse.

"He's making Argentina great again!" (financial collapse ensues)

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