Why Lying Is Often Easier in Argentina
Why Lying Is Often Easier in Argentina
By
Brian Winter
President Mauricio Macri fights his predecessor’s legacy – and an older, perhaps more difficult foe.
At a dinner party in Washington seven years ago, a well-known Argentine diplomat was doing what diplomats do – defending his government over rubber chicken and white wine. But this night was quite unusual, because the diplomat was openly and unapologetically defending a lie.
Back then, the lie was still fairly new, and the world was still struggling to understand it. Shortly after President Cristina Fernández took office in 2007, the Argentine statistics institute, INDEC, began publishing falsified data – claiming inflation was...
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