Posts from Rice in thread „Lazaro Baez gets 12 years for money laundering - $60million“

It’s just that I see the wholesale corruption in Argentina as a tragedy rather than a farce.

Through my own country’s experience, I now understand how very tragic this is, more than I could have understood 5 years ago. Absent the completely unlikely emergence of a sane and uncorrupt leader, and an electorate that wants better leadership, the country is doomed to more of the same. It breaks my heart.

If he hasn’t talked in almost 8 years, as he faced probable imprisonment, why talk now? Some of trump’s people showed their willingness to serve time rather than give him up, choosing instead to count on getting a pardon. In Cristina’s case, perhaps Baez and others would put up with prison time in exchange for a big cash payoff.