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Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

COVID-1984: Three-Year-Old Dies From Heart Attack One Day After Jab



“I’m sure my daughter was killed by the vaccine. She was a healthy girl, full of life, without any health issues.”


The Ministry of Public Health of Tucumán, Argentina released a report that a three-year-old girl died last December 16 and the justice system has intervened and will investigate the cause of her death.

“On Thursday, December 16, 2021, at 12:00 hours, a 3-year-old patient, in cardiorespiratory arrest, enters the Emergency Service of the Hospital of the Child Jesus. Advanced resuscitation maneuvers are carried out and, when [she] does not respond, [her] death is declared,” the Tucumán Ministry of Health said in a statement.

The 3-year-old child, Ámbar Suárez, received one dose of the Sinopharm, China’s COVID-19 vaccine.  The police and justice system will investigate the cause of her death and an autopsy will be performed.

“Considering the history of Covid vaccination, contact is initiated with relatives to gather the relevant information, evaluate other backgrounds, and proceed with the investigation of this unfortunate episode,” the official statement concluded.

Meanwhile, Miriam Suárez, the mother of the child claimed that the vaccine killed her daughter.

The COVID World reported:

Miriam Suárez said her daughter Ámbar was vaccinated last week on December 15th and passed away a day later from sudden cardiac arrest.

The 3-year-old had received the jab because otherwise she would not have been allowed to go to kindergarten due to a vaccine mandate.

Miriam told Argentine media that her 3-year-old had no symptoms immediately after the jab, but while playing with the neighbor’s kids the next morning, Ámbar fainted and was taken to the Children’s Hospital of Tucumán where she died from cardiac arrest. 

The heartbroken mother said:

“I’m sure my daughter was killed by the vaccine. She was a healthy girl, full of life, without any health issues.”


Infowars.com


Brother Alexis Bugnolo: "Arrest the Criminals"

"You are all going to be DEAD unless you arrest these people!"

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Saturday Sultress - Carolina Ardohain




Ana Carolina Ardohaín Dos Santos (born January 17, 1978) is an Argentine model, television personality and actress. She is widely known by the nickname Pampita, a diminutive for La Pampa, the Argentine province where she was born. She was one of very few people baptised at the monastery of Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Her mother is Brazilian.












Sunday, March 19, 2017

Feminists "abort" Baby Jesus from Virgin Mary


Activists stage 'a performance art' showing a woman dressed as the Virgin Mary bleeding between her legs in a 'grotesque' and 'blasphemous' depiction of the make-believe abortion of Baby Jesus from the Virgin Mary outside a cathedral in Tucuman, Argentina.

Leftist Scum Are Cowards

  • Cowardly Leftists endlessly attack Christians, but refuse to attack Islam. 


(Christian Today)  -  "They literally want to abort Jesus off the face of the earth in every manifestation of His presence today."

The remark came from Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, in an interview with LifeSite News.

He was referring to a group of feminists who last week staged a "performance art" just outside the cathedral in Tucuman, northern Argentina where they depicted the make-believe abortion of Baby Jesus from the Virgin Mary as part of an International Women's Day protest. Abortion is illegal in Argentina unless the life of the mother is threatened by pregnancy.

A photo of the event showed blood and baby parts gushing out from between the legs of the smiling "Virgin Mary" wearing a rosary around her neck and with her fist defiantly held up high while surrounded by pink mask-wearing feminists.

The photo was quickly shared thousands of times on social media amid condemnations from church and other religious leaders.

Pavone was among those who denounced the "grotesque and blasphemous act," which he said "represents what every abortion actually is."

Read More . . . .


Thursday, October 15, 2015

Mob of topless feminists assaults praying men


Topless Feminazi Retards on the March

“Get your rosaries out of our ovaries.” 
March for Women


Mar de Plata (LifeSiteNews)  -  A horrific and surreal scene unfolded Monday night outside the Cathedral of Mar de Plata in Argentina as hordes of women, many of them masked and half naked, violently assaulted a group of young men who stood outside the Cathedral of Mar de Plata praying and standing watch.
Such violence is becoming the norm for the annual March for Women in the Pope's native land of Argentina, although this year's violence seemed to be the most extreme yet, with the women turning their violence against the police, and even attempting to set the Cathedral on fire.
The women tore down the outer gate of the cathedral and hurled glass bottles and feces at the young men standing guard. 
When they  attempted to burn down the Cathedral the police began taking measures to disperse the hordes.
The local group Argentinos Alerta, which helped to organize the peaceful vigil in anticipation of the attack, issued a statement in which they thanked the police for dispatching forces to the Cathedral. The group noted that it was the first time that the police had made an effort to defend church property.
While similar protests have occurred recently in conjunction with the Annual March for Women, the level of violence appears to be increasing.
"There were very tense moments and when I arrived I witnessed families with young children crying trapped inside the church. It was a terrible thing," stated Marcelo Di Pasqua the local chief of police in an interview with local TV.
A similarly disturbing video from the 2013 March for Women shows groups of women spray-painting the crotches and faces of groups of praying men linked arm-in-arm to protect the Cathedral, and using markers to paint their faces with Hitler-like moustaches. 
They also performed obscene sexual acts in front of them and pushed their breasts onto their faces, all the while shouting “get your rosaries out of our ovaries.” 
Read More . . . .

Argentina March-for-Women Violence








Saturday, August 8, 2015

Saturday Sultress - Pamela David




Pamela Carolina David Gutiérrez is an Argentinian actress and model. She was born in Córdoba, Argentina, on October 6, 1978. She found fame in the reality TV show El BarTV 2.
David currently works as a co-hostess in an America TV program called "Desayuno Americano".









Saturday, February 8, 2014

Obama sells ambassadorships for $1 million plus

The $800,000 Woman
Soap opera producer Colleen Bell doesn't know what the U.S.
interests are in Hungary - yet, she's the new ambassador.  It only
required $800,000 in cold hard cash to the Democrats.

"Corruptus in Extremis"
  • Noah Mamet bundled at least $1 million in campaign donations to President Obama's two presidential election campaigns, and now he's in line to be the U.S. ambassador to Argentina.
  • When Sen. Marco Rubio asked him during his confirmation hearing if he had ever visited the South American country, he admitted that he hadn't.
  • Last month the Obama nominee for a similar post in Norway demonstrated a lack of knowledge about that nation's political structure and said he had never been there.
  • Newly minted ambassador Max Baucus, now headed to Beijing, freely admitted in his own hearing that he's 'no real expert on China'.
  • The new ambassador to Hungary is a soap opera producer and prolific Democratic fundraiser who couldn't tell senators what America's strategic interests are in that country.


In the latest blunder for an Obama administration ambassadorial nominee, prolific Democratic campaign fundraiser Noah Mamet admitted Thursday that he has never been to Argentina – the nation where he wants to represent U.S. interests as America's top diplomat.
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The White House has tapped him to be the U.S. ambassador to the South American country.
'Mr. Mamet have you been to Argentina,' asked Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio during the Californian's confirmation hearing reports the UK Daily Mail.

'I haven't had the opportunity yet to be there,' he admitted, ashen-faced.

'I've traveled pretty extensively around the world, but I haven't yet had the chance.'

Mamet, like other ambassadorial nominees, raised copious amounts of campaign cash for President Obama – at least $500,000 during the 2012 campaign cycle, and another $500,000 or more in 2008 according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
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There's nothing new about fundraisers being rewarded with cushy posts overseas, but they usually have some genuine qualifications for directing U.S. foreign policy in the country where they end up.
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Mamet's embarrassing showing comes after a similar face-palm moment from George Tsunis in January who told Arizona Sen. John McCain that he, too, had never visited the country where he asked to be posted.
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'Mr. Tsunis, have you been to Norway?' McCain asked.
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'I have not,' Tsunis admitted.

The Long Island hotel magnate who has bundled and contributed at least $1.3 million to Obama and other Democrats, proceeded to deliver what one Scandinavian newspaper called a 'faltering, incoherent performance,' saying among other things that Norway has a 'president.'
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The nation is actually a constitutional monarchy, much like the United Kingdom, with both a King and a parliament.
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Tsunis also gaffed when he described the Progress Party, an anti-immigration political group with seven cabinet ministers among its members, as a part of 'fringe elements' that 'spew their hatred.'

The $1.3 Million Dollar Man
Because of $1.3 million given to Comrade Obama, George Tsunis
is the new ambassador to Norway.  He has never been to Norway,
knows nothing about its politics and said the nation has a "president"
when it actually has a King. 

'Norway has been very quick to denounce them,' he said, before McCain corrected him and pointed out that they are an integral part of Norway's coalition government.
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Tsunis once contributed $50,000 to McCain's Senate campaign before defecting to the Democratic side and collecting more than $1 million to send Barack Obama to the White House.

He won Senate confirmation this week, as did Max Baucus, a former U.S. senator who is to be the U.S. ambassador to China.
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Faced with a tough question last week during his confirmation hearing about Chinese military provocation against Japan in the East China Sea, Baucus said plainly, 'I'm no expert on China.'
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The prize for ambassadorial cluelessness, though, may go to Colleen Bell, an Obama bundler who put $800,000 in play for Democrats. She's trading in her work as producer of the soap opera 'The Bold and the Beautiful' to become ambassador to Hungary.
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Asked by McCain to describe America's strategic interests in that nation, she launched into a rambling response worthy of a teen beauty pageant contestant.

'Well, we have – our strategic interests, in terms of what are our key priorities in Hungary,' Bell began, 'I think our key priorities are to improve upon, as I mentioned, the security relationship and also the law enforcement and to promote business opportunities, increase trade ... Our strategic interests are to work collaboratively as NATO allies.'
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'To work to promote and protect the security, both – for both countries and for – and for the world,' she rambled on, 'to continue working together on the cause of human rights around the world, to build that side of our relationship while also maintaining and pursuing some difficult conversations that might be necessary in the coming years.'




The Million Dollar Man
Noah Mamet has never been to Argentina, but because he gave the Democrats $1 million he's President Obama's pick to be the U.S.' next ambassador to the South American nation.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Let the poor eat pigeon



It's a lean meat  -  Low-income children should be fed pigeon meat
  • Think of the children!  They need affordable protein.
  • And it's good for the environment too.
  • We need to bring this program to the US.  Pigeon, not food stamps.


(Argentina)  -  Oscar De Allende, an official at the local environment ministry responsible for wildlife, was suspended over his "controversial statements on pigeon consumption," Cordoba Governor Jose Manuel de la Sota said in a statement.
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Earlier this week De Allende proposed that Paicor, a government program for distributing food and clothing to poor students, serve pigeon meat at public schools reports the UK Telegraph.
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"We estimate we have 600 million (pigeons) in Cordoba," De Allende told a local radio station.

"Let's consider that pigeons are an abundant resource, not a pest. We are working with the people of Paicor to start a project" that will turn pigeons into food.

Cordoba's Cabinet Chief Oscar Gonzalez called the initiative "nonsense" and insisted there are no plans for such a program.   At least there are no current plans since the news hit the press.    (UK Telegraph)


Pigeon  -  Just like Mom used to make.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

SHOCK: Argentina to nationalize oil


Naked Socialism
Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner announced the nationalization of oil fields. 
        


Private Property Attacked   -   Authoritarian Argentina is taking over privately owned oil fields

  • What business will now invest in Argentina when the government can steal your property?



Argentina sent shock waves through the oil industry by announcing plans to nationalize local oil assets controlled by a Spanish company, in a controversial move that threatens to sour the already troubled relationship between the two countries.

The move to seize 51% of Repsol's YPF business in Argentina sent the company's shares spinning down 18% on Wall Street and will worry other big foreign investors such as BP reports the UK Guardian.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's president, introduced the new measure to Congress in a bid to recover sovereignty over its national hydrocarbon resources.

Kirchner accused Repsol of failing to produce enough oil through YPF to meet Argentina's energy requirements.

The nationalization comes amid escalating threats against operators drilling for oil off the disputed Falkland Islands.

Argentina is expected to expropriate about 24% of YPF from Repsol and another 26% from Argentina's Peterson Group.

Kirchner said the price would be set by the national appraisal tribunal and insisted the business could continue to be managed "professionally". She said Argentina was one of the few countries that did not control its own oil.
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(UK Guardian)

Argentina has been making threats against the United Kingdom about the Falkland Islands now that there oil has been discovered.


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The Great Energy Gold Rush.
Oil and gas fields all over South America are drawing attention from Europe, China and the United States.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Pension plans nationalized by Government

Governments are lining up to steal the pension funds of their citizens in order to buy votes for the next election.


“This is effectively a nationalization of private pension funds.  It’s the nightmare scenario.”

- - - David Nemeth, an economist at ING Groep NV in Budapest


The avalanche of failing Socialist governments in Europe has set off an orgy of looting with legislators acting to seize European taxpayer savings and pension accounts to cover the governments’ bills.  The thought of cutting spend never enters into the heads of Socialists.

Is the United States next?  Will 401k and other accounts be looted by Big Government Socialists?

The seizure of pension accounts is easily accomplished in Europe.

Take Hungary, last month they made a deal with its citizens, either hand over all their savings to the government or lose all their state pension money. Adding insult to injury, citizens must still pay into those defunct accounts Reports the San Diego Examiner.

According to Christian Science Monitor, “The government wants to gain control over $14 billion of individual retirement accounts.”

“This is effectively a nationalization of private pension funds,” David Nemeth, an economist at ING Groep NV in Budapest, said in a phone interview. “It’s the nightmare scenario.”   (Bloomberg News)

In Hungary, employers set aside 24 percent of each worker’s salary for pension contributions and employees are required to pay 10 percent. Forcing workers back into the state system means the government will retain control of all that money, rather than transferring a portion to the private funds.




ARGENTINA  -  EU nations are following the example of Argentina, which in 2001 confiscated about $3.2 billion of pension savings before the country stopped servicing its debt. The government in Buenos Aires nationalized the $24 billion industry two years ago to compensate for falling tax revenue after a 2005 debt restructuring.

BULGARIA  -  “The Bulgarian government has come up with a similar idea,” CSM said. “An additional $300 million of private early retirement savings was supposed to be transferred to the state pension scheme. The government gave way after trade unions protested and finally only about 20 percent of the original plans were implemented.”

POLAND  -  Poland is another country on the brink and wants to confiscate approximately one-third of the state-run Social Security program which adds up to $2.3 billion per year. The newly imposed program hopes to bridge the financial gap for several years while leaving retirees with empty pockets.

IRELAND  -  Ireland, who has made front page news in the U.S. for disgruntled taxpayers, will also raid the National Pension Reserve Fund. The fund was supposed to provide retirement money for workers who need a pension in the years 2025-2050.

PORTUGAL  -  The Portuguese Cabinet agreed to transfer the assets from four of the country’s biggest banks to the government treasury, in order to “bridge” a yawning budget gap that threatens to bankrupt the nation.  Portuguese government officials “assured” the European Union that the transfer of the life savings of Portuguese citizens would only be a one-time occurrence.   (Infowars)

FRANCE  -  The final example is France. In November, the French parliament decided to earmark €33bn from the national reserve pension fund FRR to reduce the short-term pension scheme deficit. In this way, the retirement savings intended for the years 2020-2040 will be used earlier, that is in the years 2011-2024, and the government will spend the saved up resources on other purposes.  (The Christian Science Monitor)

“It’s unprecedented in Europe that a government is threatening to kick its own citizens out of the state pension system,” Zoltan Torok, a Budapest-based economist at Raiffeisen Bank International AG, said in a phone interview. “It’s probably enough to ensure that no one is going to stay in the private pension fund system in his or her right mind.”
(San Diego Examiner)

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Argentina fights Saudi Land Grab


Got Saudi Milk from Argentina?
Billboard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia reading "Drink milk".  Al Marai, the largest dairy producer in the Gulf, is partly owned by Savola, Saudi Arabia's largest food company.  Al Marai was started by Prince Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer of the Saudi royal family.  (Photo: CAPA)


The Road to Serfdom Series
Argentina fights back against being "colonized" by Saudi Arabia and other nations in huge land grabs


Argentina is starting to fight back against being colonized by monster sized land grabs by nations like China, Saudi Arabia.  The Chinese and others are buying up millions of acres of farm land and natural resources for export to their home nations.

Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company said it is buying Argentine farm operator Fondomonte S.A. for $83 million to secure access to a supply of animal feed.

The acquisition will give Riyadh-based Almarai Co. control of roughly 30,000 acres of farmland in the South American nation just ahead of tough new limits likely to be imposed by Argentina's government on foreign ownership of productive land.

Almarai said the deal is in line with the desert kingdom's policy of "securing supplies and conserving local resources."

Despite its scorching desert climate, Saudi Arabia for decades produced millions of tons of homegrown wheat with the help of generous farm subsidies. It is now trying to wind down domestic production because of concerns over dwindling water supplies.

Fondomonte operates three farms dedicated to producing corn and soybeans, according to Almarai. The Argentine company's website says it also grows barley, rice and sorghum.  Almarai said it plans to use the crops to feed chickens and cattle.

It expects to pay for the deal using in-house cash and loans based on Islamic principles, which generally prohibit the paying of interest.

The Saudi purchase was announced as Argentina's Senate prepared to approve strict new limits on foreign land ownership, designed to protect the South American country's food resources.

The proposed law, already passed by the House, would limit individual foreign ownership of rural land to 2,500 acres per titleholder, and bar any more purchases by foreigners once 15 percent of Argentina's land is foreign owned.

No one knows just how much Argentine land is already in foreign hands. The law would create a nationwide land registry to establish who owns what. President Cristina Fernandez has said the law would not take away land already owned by foreigners.

(Associated Press)

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Foreign investors are colonizing Africa




No Respect for Property Rights  -  Land stolen from farmers

Indian, Chinese and U.S. companies are among many inking land-investment deals in Africa, including Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Sudan, Mali, and Mozambique. According to a study by the U.S.- based Oakland Institute, foreign investors bought or leased a land area in sub-Saharan Africa about the size of France in 2009 alone.

American universities’ trusts (including Harvard’s) are also buying up land, reportedly displacing millions of farmers in the process.

Advocates say the land is being taken from indigenous communities by often violent means, and that land rights are handed over without proper contracts after closed-door deals. A lack of regulations in these countries allows foreign firms to purchase or lease large tracts of arable land, leaving little recourse for displaced residents.

Investors claim to be growing food for the global market that will indirectly alleviate food shortages in Africa, but land is very often used to grow non-edible export commodities such as flowers and biofuels.

For more on this story



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The Road to Serfdom Series

The world is moving toward a modern form of Neo-Serfdom where everyone works for the all-powerful State or businesses controlled by the State.  A world where individual property rights and economic freedom do not exist. 

FREEDOM IS VANISHING:   What happens when the major employers are owned by government backed investment groups, or your food comes from government owned farms, or your news is delivered by so-called "private" corporations but are in reality connected and interconnected to governments?

George Orwell had a name for it:  Big Brother.

Please check out other stories in our Serfdom series.

THE FEDERALIST - "LAND GRAB: 160,000 people thrown off their land."

THE FEDERALIST - "China is buying up Argentina."

THE FEDERALIST - "Corporations use Global Warming to steal land."

THE FEDERALIST - "China wants to buy a huge chunk of Iceland"

THE FEDERALIST - "China to buy up Australian farmland"

THE FEDERALIST - "Brazil takes action to protect their farmlands from foreigners"

THE FEDERALIST - "Saudi Arabian "Food Colonies" in Argentina"

THE FEDERALIST - "China buys oil fields in Texas"

THE FEDERALIST - "America is committing suicide - The Road to Serfdom, Part IV"

THE FEDERALIST - "The Road to Serfdom, Part III"

THE FEDERALIST - "Benito Mussolini was right"

THE FEDERALIST - "The Road to Serfdom, Part II"

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Another Falklands War?


Margaret Thatcher sent a task force of 100 ships to regain control of the Falklands Islands
after the Argentine junta invaded.

War?  -  Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay move to blockade the Falkland Islands
  • Calls for a British nuclear sub to go to Argentina
  • In the latest breach of international law earlier this month, Spanish vessels bound for the islands were intercepted and boarded by Argentine troops.
  • There have been significant oil finds in the Falklands.

Amazing.  Oil is found on the Falkland Islands and suddenly Argentina remembers that they exist.

A former head of the British Navy has said 'aggressive' demands by Argentina over the Falkland Islands should be countered by sending a nuclear submarine to the region.

Lord West has also suggested staging a exercise demonstrating Britain's ability to reinforce the South Atlantic islands would leave Buenos Aires in no doubt the country would defend them in case of conflict, reports the UK Daily Mail.

The peer slammed a new agreement by Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay to ban ships that fly the Falklands flag from their ports as 'outrageous'.
The famous image of British troops marching
towards Port Stanley, on the Falkland Islands, with the
Union Jack flying in June 1982.


Speaking to London's Evening Standard, he said: 'They are basically becoming more and more aggressive. I find that worrying.

'Far from trying to settle in a grown-up way and having better and better relations with the Falkland islanders, they are upping the ante and becoming confrontational.'

The Foreign Office has condemned the decision to ban vessels flying the Falklands flag from entering ports in the three countries.

Uruguay said it was banning ships flying the Falkland Islands flag from its ports, prompting the Foreign Office to call on Uruguay's ambassador in London to explain the move.

The government in Buenos Aires has stepped up its official policy of blockading the British territory by ordering its navy to board ships that it claims are fishing there illegally.

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner last year issued a decree requiring all vessels passing through its territorial waters to and from the Falklands to secure consent from Buenos Aires.
The row began to escalate in January last year when oil exploration rigs arrived off the islands.

Rockhopper Exploration, which carried out test drilling in the waters around the islands, said in September it had made significant finds and could begin pumping by 2016.

Britain has around 1,200 service personnel on the islands, and there are three Royal Navy warships in the area along with four RAF Typhoon fighter bombers.


Stanley Cathedral in the capital of the Falklands will be protected by British forces if an attack comes.

For more on this story

Thursday, November 10, 2011

China is buying up Argentina


Standard Bank Argentina is now owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
Communist Party owned state companies are buying Argentine farmland, mineral rights and banking services.

The Road to Serfdom Series
"China's steps into Argentina are slow but firm."
  • Argentina is becoming a "Food Colony" of China.
  • China is buying up Argentine natural resourses for shipment back to China
  • Argentina has the #3 gas shales deposits in the world  -  China wants them.

Big Brother is coming to South America in the form of the Chinese Communist Party.  The Communists are buying virtually everything they can get their hands on.  Oil, gas, assorted minerals and crops are being sent back to China from their new "Colony" of Argentina.

China is ramping up investment in Argentina to secure natural resources to feed its growing economy and snare sales opportunities for its emergent manufacturing industry.

With limited land and resources at home, China is turning to the world for raw materials to feed the factories and its growing populace, reports Market News International.

Argentina was China's second biggest destination for investment in Latin America last year, with $5.6 billion flowing in compared with $9.6 billion to Brazil, according to the United Nation's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

The spending pace has continued this year.
  • $3.5 billion going to Argentina 
  • $8.6 billion in Peru
  • $9.9 billion in Brazil
About 90% of the total was in natural resources, according to ECLAC.  

Chinese Communist Party owned companies
are buying up farmland and mineral rights
in Argentina's Rio Negro Province.

"China wants to produce raw materials in Latin America and process them in China," Sotuyo said. "It is buying land in Latin America."

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in April submitted a bill to Congress designed to limit foreign ownership of rural land to 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres).

The bill, not yet approved, proposes limiting total foreign ownership to 20% of productive land. Foreigners now own an estimated 11% of productive land, according to the Argentine Agriculture Federation, a leading farm group.

There are concerns that the foreign purchases were for drinking water rights, as the region is known for large deposits of water. Famous athletes, actors and businessmen like Joe Lewis and Ted Turner have bought land, capturing media attention including for allegedly limiting access to rivers and lakes on their land.

China is seeking other avenues, such as by teaming up with local companies, said Gabriel Perez, who owns Mercampo, an agriculture consulting firm in Rosario.

Sending Argentine food to China

"In Africa, the strategy is to buy land. But in Argentina, they are forming associations that allow them to grow crops and guarantee food supplies for their population," he said.

Heilongjiang, a northeastern province of China, last year signed contracts for it to invest in developing fields in Argentina's southern Rio Negro province, in exchange for rights to buy the harvests. It will work with farmers there on the project.

Heilongjiang, source of 11% of the food produced in China, will work on the project through Beidahuang Group, a state company.

It plans to invest $1.5 billion to expand the San Antonio Este port and put in irrigation systems over an area of 300,000 hectares in the Rio Negro and Rio Colorado valleys, which unlike in the country's farm belt in Buenos Aires province, Cordoba and Santa Fe require irrigation for crops like corn and soybeans, and less so for fruits and vegetables.
Communist Party owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) and China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) are buying up Argentine oil and gas reserves.

China buys oil, gas, iron ore and banking services in Argentina  

Communist Party owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) this year bought the Argentine assets of Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum for about $2.5 billion.

The purchase made Sinopec the fifth-biggest oil producer in Argentina and followed a deal to buy a 40% stake in Repsol's Brazilian upstream unit for $7.1 billion.

It also followed a move by state owned China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) and Argentina's Bridas Energy Holdings to seek the purchase of 60% of Pan American Energy from BP for $7.1 billion. Pan American is the second biggest oil producer and third for natural gas in Argentina.

China is looking abroad for oil and gas reserves to offset declining output at home. South America and Africa are showing promise for oil and gas production growth, with Argentina estimated to hold the third largest resources of shale gas in the world after China and the United States.

Mining and fertilizer are other focuses. Beijing-based China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a state-owned mining company, has invested about $100 million in an iron mine in Rio Negro, pulling the mine out of a 14-year slump to restart shipments.

In August, China's biggest commercial bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, agreed to buy an 80% stake in Standard Bank Argentina for $600 million from the South African parent company.

"China's steps into Argentina are slow but firm," Mercampo's Perez said. "We will see more investment."

Chinese Communist Party owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China now owns Standard Bank Argentina.  Using the new bank as a front China is now providing banking "services" in Argentina as one more way to gain influence and control in the nation.

For more on this story

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The Road to Serfdom Series

The world is moving toward a modern form of Neo-Serfdom where everyone works for the all-powerful State or businesses controlled by the State.  A world where individual property rights and economic freedom do not exist. 

FREEDOM IS VANISHING:   What happens when the major employers are owned by government backed investment groups, or your food comes from government owned farms, or your news is delivered by so-called "private" corporations but are in reality connected and interconnected to governments?

George Orwell had a name for it:  Big Brother.

Please check out other stories in our Serfdom series.

THE FEDERALIST - "Corporations use Global Warming to steal land."

THE FEDERALIST - "China wants to buy a huge chunk of Iceland"

THE FEDERALIST - "China to buy up Australian farmland"

THE FEDERALIST - "Brazil takes action to protect their farmlands from foreigners"

THE FEDERALIST - "Saudi Arabian "Food Colonies" in Argentina"

THE FEDERALIST - "China buys oil fields in Texas"

THE FEDERALIST - "America is committing suicide - The Road to Serfdom, Part IV"

THE FEDERALIST - "The Road to Serfdom, Part III"

THE FEDERALIST - "Benito Mussolini was right"

THE FEDERALIST - "The Road to Serfdom, Part II"

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