MADRID The Japanese harakiri is a noble tradition in which military, politicians, businessmen and sometimes writers (like Yukio Mishima), embarrassed by failures or actions which, they believed, the dishonored, is despanzurraban in a bloody ceremony. At a time when the idea of honor has been devalued to a minimum, the Japanese gentlemen no longer commit suicide. But the ritual of sacrifice remains in the world and is now group: countries that practice it, seized a passenger or prolonged delirium, decide impoverished, barbarizarse, corrupted, or all those things at once
<. p> Latin America abounds in such tragic examples. The most notable is that of Argentina, which makes three quarters of a century he was a first world country, prosperous, educated, open, with an exemplary education system and suddenly prey to the Peronist fever, he decided to go back and ruin, a long agony, supported by successive military coups and heroic perseverance in the error of their constituents, continues still. Hopefully someday the gods or chance returned sanity and clarity to the land of Sarmiento and Borges.
Another emblematic case of political harakiri is to Venezuela. Had an imperfect way, but real democracy with a free press, genuine elections, various political parties, and evil evil, the country progressed. Rife corruption and waste, unfortunately, and this led to a majority of Venezuelans to disbelieve democracy and trust their fate to a messianic leader: Commander Hugo Chavez. Up to eight times they had the opportunity to amend his mistake and did not, voting again and again by a regime that led to the precipice. Today pay dearly for their blindness. Dictatorship is a suffocating reality, closed television stations, radio stations and newspapers, filling jails dissidents, multiplied corruption dizzying extremes, one of the main military leaders of the regime runs the drug, the only industry that flourishes in a country where the economy has bottomed out and triplicado- poverty and where institutions, from judges to the National Electoral Council are servants of power. Although there is a significant majority of Venezuelans who want to return to freedom, it will not be easy: Maduro’s government has shown that although inept at everything else, when forging elections and imprisoning, torturing and murdering opponents not quivers hand.
The harakiri is not a Third specialty, also practiced civilized Europe, from time to time. Hitler and Mussolini came to power by legal means and a number of Central European countries were laid in the arms of Stalin without much fuss. The most recent case appears to be that of Greece, which, in free elections, just bring to power, with 36% of the vote to Syriza, a demagogic populist far-left party that is allied to rule with a small organization ultranationalist and anti-European right. Greek Syriza promised a revolution and paradise. In the catastrophic state in which it is the country that was the birthplace of democracy and Western culture perhaps this dark catharsis of the Greek electorate is understandable. But instead of overcoming the pests that plague, they could now intensify if the new government is determined to implement what it offered its voters.
Those pests are a dizzying public debt of 317,000 million euros with the European Union and the international financial system that rescued Greece from bankruptcy and is equivalent to 175% of GDP. Since the beginning of the crisis, GDP in Greece has fallen by 25% and the unemployment rate has reached almost 26%. This means the collapse of public services, an appalling decline in living standards and a cancerous growth of poverty. If you listen to the leaders of SYRIZA and its leader inspired -the new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras- this situation ineptitude should not be as rampant corruption of the Greek governments over several decades, with delusional irresponsibility arrived to present balances and forged financial reports to the European Union to hide their wrongs, but to the austerity measures imposed by international agencies and Europe to Greece to rescue the defenseless poor policies had led.
Syriza proposed ending austerity and privatization, renegotiate debt payments provided that there was a “haircut” (or remission) important to her, and revive the economy, employment and public services with sustained investments . An equivalent to cure a terminal illness as he runs marathons miracle. Thus, the Greek people recover a ‘sovereignty’ that apparently, Europe in general, the troika and the government of Mrs. Merkel in particular, have taken from him.
The best thing that could happen is These bluster of the campaign were now archived Syriza already have responsibilities of government, as did François Hollande in France, recognize that promised untrue and impossible things and correct your program with pragmatic spirit, which undoubtedly cause a disappointment Terrible among his naive voters. Otherwise, Greece is facing bankruptcy, to leave the euro and the European Union and sink into underdevelopment. There are conflicting symptoms is not yet clear whether the new Greek government will reverse. Just proposed, instead of forgiveness, a picaresque and tricky formula, consisting convert their debt into two classes of bonds, some real, that would pay as you grow your economy and other ghosts, which would renewing Throughout eternity. France and Italy also victims of serious economic problems, have expressed no view with disfavor such a proposal. She did not prosper, no doubt, because not all European countries have still lost all sense of reality.
First, and with good reason, members of the European Union, plus Germany, have reminded Greece that do not accept reductions, express or hidden, and that countries should fulfill their commitments. Those who have been most severe in this respect are Portugal, Spain and Ireland, which, after great sacrifices, emerging from the crisis after comply strictly with their obligations. Greece needs to Spain 26,000 million euros. The Spanish recovery has cost blood, sweat and tears. Why would the Spaniards who pay out of pocket the bad policies of the Greek government, besides being already paying for those of yours?
Germany is not to blame for many countries of the European Community have a wreck their economy. Germany has been prudent and competent, austere and honest governments and, therefore, while other countries fell apart, she grew and became strong. And do not forget that Germany should absorb and resurrect a corpse -the communist Germany to coast, also formidable efforts, without complaint or ask for help from anyone but through determination and stoicism of its citizens. Moreover, the German government of Mrs. Merkel is a strong pro-European and the best proof of this is the generous and consistent way supports, with its resources and its initiatives, European integration. Only the proliferation of stereotypes and ideological myths explains the phenomenon of Freudian transfer leading to Greece (not the only) to blame the most efficient country in the European Union disaster that caused the politicians who for so many years the people Greek sent to the government with their votes and they have made the dreadful condition it is. .
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