Readings for FLLT 567
Prof. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz
“South America” Focus on Argentine crisis of 2001
October 12, 2005

REQUIRED  READINGS

1.) Global Studies:  Latin America, Eleventh Edition “South America: An Imperfect Prism” pages 54-61.
“Argentina” pages 62-66. (to be provided)

2.) Poems on Argentine crisis (coming soon!- restricted access for registered participants only)

3.) Newspaper articles
“Argentina in state of siege after deadly riots” December 19, 2001 CNN.com
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/19/argentina.riots/index.html

“Argentina teeters on possible economic collapse” December 21, 2001 CNN.com http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/20/argentina/index.html

“Rioters storm Argentina congress” December 29, 2001 CNN.com
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/29/argentina.riot.0531/index.html

“Calm restored after Argentina protest turns violent” December 29, 2001 CNN.com
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/29/argentina.riot/index.html

“Argentina May Be Down But I Don't Plan to Get Out” Santiago O'Donnell, Washington Post, Sunday, August 25, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A55988-2002Aug24&notFound=true

Once-Haughty Nation's Swagger Loses Its Currency, By Anthony Faiola
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/argentina/swagger.htm
 


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OPTIONAL/RECOMMENDED FOR FURTHER READING

Additional CNN Articles
“Argentina president resigns” December 31, 2001
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/30/argentina.resignation/index.html

“Argentina gets new president for a day” January 1, 2002
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/31/argentina.resign/index.html

“Argentine Congress picks latest president” January 2, 2002 http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/01/01/argentina.presidency/index.html

“Cash crisis opens class divide in Argentina” August 15, 2002
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/08/15/argentina.otsc/index.html

“Argentina agrees to new IMF deal.” September 10, 2003.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/09/10/argentina.imf/index.html

Articles by Anthony Faiola
“Argentina's Economic Woes Devastate Its Middle Class” Washington Post, April 3, 2001.
http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg54826.html

 “Argentina Doubts Market Wisdom” Washington Post, August 6, 2001.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35890-2001Aug5

"Argentina To Suspend Debt Payment” Washington Post, December 24, 2001.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19188-2001Dec23?language=printer

“Argentina Gets a New President—Again” Washington Post, January 2, 2002
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/stop-imf/2002q1/000561.html

“Despair in Once-Proud Argentina,” Washington Post, Aug. 6, 2002.
http://www.arena.org.nz/argdecl.htm

“The Reason to Cry for Argentina,” Washington Post, Aug. 11, 2002.
http://www.networkideas.org/themes/inequality/aug2002/ie11_Reason_Cry_Argentina.htm

Other links
“Argentina in Revolt” A page with links to many articles about the situation in Argentina
http://www.arena.org.nz/arevolt.htm

Scholarly studies
David Rock. “Racking Argentina.” New Left Review 17 (Sep-Oct 2002): 55-86.
Meltdown and pauperization in what was once Latin America’s wealthiest economy. David Rock analyses the social and political longue durée of the largest sovereign default in history, and worst casualty of doctrinal neoliberalism to date.
http://www.newleftreview.com/NLR25104.shtml#pagetop

Alexandra Spieldoch. “When a Terrible Situation Gets Worse: Reflections on Argentina from a Gender Perspective.” (24 pages) July 2002. Occasional Paper Series on Gender, Trade  and Development. International Gender and Trade Network – Secretariat
http://www.coc.org/pdfs/coc/Argentina.pdf

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