On a brighter note, lower interest rates put additional cash in consumer pockets,
sending total retail sales up 3.3 percent in 2002 over the previous year, according to the LAECD report, which predicts that sales will grow a moderate 2.3 percent this year.
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Starting from the bottom: with regard to Argentina — there is no mention of the military junta in the mid-70s, nor the 30,000 (at the least) torture and killed, nor of the mothers and grandmothers walking for 20 or more years in silence protesting the killings in a Bueno Aires plaza, nor is there is mention of the billions of dollars of US military aircraft and other weapons (as well torturing equipment for
sending high to low charges of electricity through various parts of the body (private parts though preferred, as they say), but sold to the junta in power which weighs heavily in the
total external debt, nor of the wholesale and
retail sale of government agencies or corporations, and of the rights of water (in the 1990s), and the default of the government on various debts and contracts: 40 or more cases before the courts and ICSID — seems the sanctity of the contract and personalty of the international organization is a barrier to putting an end these very crooked and immoral business transactions, etc..