Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Laser For Ocular Hypertension

were not so good times 2

(Note: As I said before, this is a story about local politics for my inability to synthesis I divide it into 3 parts, of which this is the second)



Since late 2007, the Civic and Social Progressive Front, led by the Socialist Party, governed the province of Santa Fe Hermes Binner, former mayor of Rosario, is the governor.
His motto during the election campaign, was "Good Times", but reality, as he begins his third year in office, suggests otherwise.

An attempt to analyze it must begin, of course, to know the setting in which it develops.


The province of Santa Fe has nineteen departments. More interesting that the administrative division are, however, the four or five regions that comprise it, which features economic, social and even cultural determine interests do not always coincide.
the south and on the coast of Paraná, Rosario and its region (which extends, by the way, even a little outside the province). agro industrial complex, is one of the provincial centers of economic power. Strongly autonomy is also the most developed in terms of political action. Epicenter of strikes and claims, home lobbyists, think tanks both for the representatives of economic and social power (Right said before), and for those who want to build alternative power against (what was called left). Believing, rightly not always be the engine of the province.

Further south, and in, the region with its center in Deer Eye. La pampa gringa. Far from the capital, close to a certain extent Rosario, worried about their own agricultural interests. The middle, the most dynamic in the region are closely linked to the farm, the daily life of cities and villages revolves around the "field" because of its prosperity depends on themselves. The farmers are a heterogeneous group in itself, not suitable for reducing or descriptive simplistic as this, but at least we can say that range from the small producer, just saved from the debt, until the owner of large, prosperous ( very successful in some cases) due to soy, produce or rent their land for planting, but not always protected against unpredictable market crashes or expected state imposts. Productive areas, proximity to the terminals, access to credit quality of the courses are factors that qualify these thick lines, and determine policy options.

The administrative center y decisorio está centrado en Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, no en vano cito su nombre colonial, con su proverbial parsimonia (a menudo exageradas desde el sur), con su tradición burocrática del “así se hizo siempre” y con cierto orgullo desdeñoso ante el resto de la provincia.

También con sus gentes olvidadas, como los trabajadores de río, los migrantes venidos desde la pobreza interior, con los que resisten casi de forma refleja.





El norte, con Reconquista y Vera como referentes. Aquí sólo hay dos clases; los que tienen y pueden, los que no tienen ni pueden.




The first is identified by his white skin, cutting their surnames European center and cotton fields before, soy today. Officials, bureaucrats and teachers belong to it who settled with the aid of Remington, the Cross and the Forestry, untamed region that exactly a century ago. The second bit count; are rather morochos and reveal the tenacity of native DNA, Creoles are referred to other epithets they are given from the outside work but can not protest, just listen and follow their supposed leaders, while waiting for handouts those who know, those who have or they can.

The rest of the province, we should mention the Midwest for example, involved a bit of the characteristics of these four.


There is exploitation in Santa Fe, but do not say out loud, there feudalism in many regions, there is patronage and home is not always a Peronist, and not always practiced by political parties.

Monday, February 1, 2010

How Many Pounds Is One Percent Body Fat

were not so good times



(Note: Return to the virtual space with a text policy that has long wanted to write. The synthesis, or the trivialization God knows, is not mi fuerte; por eso divido este artículo en 3 partes a publicar de forma sucesiva)



No son tan buenos los tiempos en la provincia de Santa Fe, pero tal vez sí sea bueno tratar de entender por qué.

El gobierno (la gestión como les gusta mentarla a ellos) socialista del Dr. Binner comienza su tercer, y penúltimo, año. Lo hace en un escenario poco favorable: crisis energética, agravada por las altas temperaturas, pero…, déficit fiscal, irresoluble según pretenden con los instrumentos fiscales vigentes, conflictos laborales con los empleados estatales, en especial los docentes, a punto de estallar.

To those who would have to add the closure of the opposition Peronist, happy when they see the opponent reeling because they understand the key political football, shorts itself into the Progressive Front, where the other parties and small letters bothered not taken into account by the hegemonic Partido Socialista, exhaustion and disillusionment of the population and, finally, more general framework (for Santa Fe, is often overlooked, is part of the Republic), the unclear situation national was called "crisis contained" (which I hope to write another day) which is characterized by maintenance macroeconomic variables, the erosion of wages, the petty intrigues, the rhetoric is CIA and the tension transient of one or another of the actors in the "system" (1) .

[1] Elipsis cómoda para referirme al colectivo: “gobierno-oposición-empresarios-grupos Pressure-media-banking-political operators "



Returning to Santa Fe is, indeed, simplistic analysis can not be ignored but of little explanatory power.
The minority left by vocation, the pamphlets illegible, believes that the government of Binner and yours is a false socialism functional partners of economic power groups. More of the same as they say, proud of his blindness, or sluggishness, conceptual.
socialists themselves, devoted to the cause and the projects, we say that the Peronist opposition do not let them govern (difficult to manage, clarify), the deficit is the result of twenty years of chaos, they have to his credit many important initiatives and that everything would be wonderful if it were that consumer world ah!, need money to pay. In short, management is impeccable and would be perfect without Peronist eyesight and a good bank account, which is to say, "would be great in Sweden." The
Justicialist one for all and all against a , look no further explanation than happy complaint: they are a disaster, they say, and added softly, worse than us. Minimize any, limited but real government's achievements to the hyperbole and exaggerate every one of the errors Binner, that is enough, while also incurring speeches over and over again. Well understood to be the opposition and, with its logic of hooligan, eagerly awaiting the fall of the socialists are going to B!
Lie, economic crisis, ineptitude, the three explanations for the use to understand reality in February of years provincial ten. I think we can go a little further for better understanding, analysis of situation we would say in another era, politics in Santa Fe
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