Under the existing regime, the country had been on a rapid downward spiral of the kind that has now become familiar in Greece and elsewhere in Europe. Unemployment was soaring, and austerity, rather than restoring fiscal balance, simply exacerbated the economic downturn.
麻烦在十多年前就已经产生，当时阿根廷别无选择，只能贬值其货币和违约其债务。在现有制度下，阿根廷处于如今为希腊和欧洲其他国家所熟知的快速下降螺旋中。失业率飙升，紧缩，而不是重塑财政平衡，只能放大经济下降之势。