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Check this out.
I found it very interesting as well as relevant.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum ... 313278/pg1

Roark, thanks immensely for this thread, post and information.

I don't know if anyone else cares or not, but I found it very relevant and informative, etc. I stayed up half the night reading it.

It looks to me like real-life lessons from someone who's been through it RECENTLY. And it sounds like five years later there was still plenty of aftermath.

I am going to try to break it up, reorganize and edit it a little bit to pass on to a few people to see if they might finally wake up just a little bit to the realities that we are facing and soon to face in even more vivid color.

Thanks again.

What an intense read.

A couple of questions came to mind as I read, primarily: How do we still have missionaries there? Missionaries were pulled out of downtown Boston when crime was bad, I can't believe they are in a foreign country dodging gunfire all the time.

I'm afraid that what will happen here will make Argentina seem tame by comparison. It really is going to get ugly.

It seems that on the board in the link there are some follow-up comments from others that live in Argentina and don't believe that the original poster knows what he is talking about. they claim that they have not seen any such conditions but they may be in different areas of the country. Perhaps this was only how bad it got in 2001 in a particular area? the poster is speaking of a 2001 govt. collapse so missionaries may have been pulled from certain areas back then but maybe are back now?

lamanite wrote:It seems that on the board in the link there are some follow-up comments from others that live in Argentina and don't believe that the original poster knows what he is talking about. they claim that they have not seen any such conditions but they may be in different areas of the country. Perhaps this was only how bad it got in 2001 in a particular area? the poster is speaking of a 2001 govt. collapse so missionaries may have been pulled from certain areas back then but maybe are back now?

We have missionaries from our ward in Argentina so I know for sure they are there now. They could have been pulled out in 2001... Anyone know? I know they were locked down for a while in the 80s in response to politics - I think it was the war with Britain.

MercynGrace wrote:We have missionaries from our ward in Argentina so I know for sure they are there now. They could have been pulled out in 2001... Anyone know? I know they were locked down for a while in the 80s in response to politics - I think it was the war with Britain.

I believe we had missionaries there during that time. I brought this topic up with my wife's uncle, Shirley Christensen, who is a GA and is a Former president of the Argentina Resistencia Mission. He recalled some of the turmoil and the struggle with Britain, but he seemed to downplay the angle I was getting at with the economic crash and the parallels to what America is facing. From his perspective, it wasn't all that bad. I didn't pursue the conversation further.

I was there in 92 and 93 and it was downright lovely. Some products were pricey but they were imports and that was to be expected. The necessities were unspeakably inexpensive. No political unrest - only the regular Friday silent marches in the plaza.