Argentina, Seen from Canada

Canadian Robert Fulford writes for their National Post about the mess in Argentina. He does a good job of summarizing Argentina's crypto-fascist Peronist history, correctly describes Evita worship, and relates it all to the current government's grab of oil company YPF and renewed claim of the Falklands Islands.

The whole article is good, here's my favorite section:

Public life in Argentina expresses itself through spasms of showmanship, braggadocio, paranoia and demagoguery. It’s the land of the eternal crisis, where a military coup is never unthinkable.
Argentina’s many economic failures, generation after generation, are self-created, politically induced. In all the world there’s no more obvious example of a nation that has squandered, through flawed governance, the riches provided by nature.

Through political malfeasance, Argentina continues to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.