Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 23:1928 - Life and death of playwright William Shakespeare celebrated.1941 - King George of the Hellenes and the Greek government fled the Greek mainland as German forces advanced in World War Two; the Greek army surrendered.1998 - Jam
The White House meeting and Macri’s bombshell announcement dominated last week’s headlines but neither in truth do very much to modify the basic picture.
In Argentina, the rule of law and free-market principles have been weakened dramatically over the past decade. Under the leadership of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, economic freedom in Argentina has been in a virtual freefall, corruption has been rampant, and the government’s ties to strongmen in the region, such as Ven¬ezuela’s Hugo Chávez, are troubling. The White House and the U.S. Congress should examine the threat posed to both the U.S. and Latin America from the continuance of the Kirchners’ populist and statist policies, ensuring that Argentina’s current government does not receive political favors from the U.S. government. President Obama made the right decision to skip a visit to Buenos Aires when he travels to Latin America this month. But he can do much more to hold Argentina’s government accountable for the country’s downward spiral.
Argentina’s economic freedom score in the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom 43.8 out of 100, its lowest score ever placed it in 169th place of 178 countries measured.[1] Argentina also ranks near the bottom (27th) of the 29 countries in the South and Central America/Caribbean region. That is a stunning decline from its highest score of 74.7, which was recorded in the second edition of the Index in 1996.[2]