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Preface 9
Introduction 13
Carmencita dances for a long summer 17
The history of Argentine prosperity 17 • Colonial Argentina 17 •The
saga of Argentine prosperity 20 • Explaining Argentina’s success 24
• All that glitters is not gold 30 • Problems of industrial
development 33 • The war and the gay twenties 43
The sorrows of Carmencita 49
Argentina’s odyssey from riches to rags 49 • The collapse of the
export economy 50 • In the colonel’s arms 57 • Perón in power 63
• Towards the abyss 76 • The abyss 87
Carmencita’s last tango? 97
Alfonsín 98 • The man from La Rioja 103 • Argentina’s indian
summer 110 • The other side of the coin 113 • Back to the edge
of the abyss 118 • Carmencita’s last tango? 135
Bibliography 139
