Inside Argentina

Argentina, strictly speaking, does not belong to the XXI century socialism. However, participates and displays the characteristics of the populist governments. But two elements separated Argentina from other countries enrolled in the flow, the socialism of the XXI century, which are the safeguard of the institutions in that society. The first, the attitude of the Supreme Court, which has put a limit to the power of Kirchner, either in terms of trying to silence critical voices and to introduce a reform the judiciary, for the sake of a supposed "democratization ". The second is that the recent election or pre-election acts, show that the current government can no longer claim to speak for the majority, as in Bolivia, Ecuador and, in a more debatable, Venezuela. It is no longer possible, even more closed to its apologists, to talk about populism, if there is no majority. Douglas Farah, in these two works presented, provides two key elements to understand the government of Cristina Kirchner. Back to the future, showing how, under government corruption, the country is on a road to ruin. The other, the description of La Campora, is an analysis of a group of young people trying to take over the Argentine government and the economy has collapsed and created a system of authoritarian rule.