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As far as I know (which it isn´t much) Menem had a good deal of responsability towards the situation Argentina is today. Although he adopted some measures towards free market, he didn´t control goverment spending, which lead to the present situation.
Here in Brazil we had some right wing politicians who joined the worst of both sides. Paulo Maluf (mayor of São Paulo) is the best exemple of a person which every single attitute as a political man lead to disaster. Some decades ago he screwed up the healthcare system (shut down 3 hospitals - remember that brazilian public hospitals are perpetually overcrowded) to direct all the city hall resourses in the construction of an absurd highway which name in english would be "big worm", for it´s odd sinuous shape, because it went over an avenue in a densely populated district. Don´t have to say what happened to the hundreds of buildings that had a very intense traffic flow 5 meters from it´s windows. That alone it would be bad, but it gets worse, because he left the city´s economy drowned in debts, because of rampant corruption (a regular avenue built by him only loses in $ per kilometer built to the english channel tunnel). We have really bad exemples from right wing politicians here.
So while I think it's ok the right wing that decreases the state, improve national finances and promotes economic growth, I am horrified by politicians that insert subjetive moral values into the state, like religion (and I´m a very religious man) or screw up finances by increasing deficits while decreasing social benefits. Hard liners that defends violence as a mean to solve problems are also disliked by me. Paulo Maluf whom I wrote before defends a police as gentle as Gestapo to deal with the rampant violence seen in Brazil that results from having close together rich neighborhoods with settlements holding millions of miserable people with no education, therefore no job in today´s world, which the only occupation left is to rape one another and use drugs (the reality is a bit worse than that due to my bad english - my mother works in such places as a doctor and she tells me terrifying stories).
Here in Brazil we had some right wing politicians who joined the worst of both sides. Paulo Maluf (mayor of São Paulo) is the best exemple of a person which every single attitute as a political man lead to disaster. Some decades ago he screwed up the healthcare system (shut down 3 hospitals - remember that brazilian public hospitals are perpetually overcrowded) to direct all the city hall resourses in the construction of an absurd highway which name in english would be "big worm", for it´s odd sinuous shape, because it went over an avenue in a densely populated district. Don´t have to say what happened to the hundreds of buildings that had a very intense traffic flow 5 meters from it´s windows. That alone it would be bad, but it gets worse, because he left the city´s economy drowned in debts, because of rampant corruption (a regular avenue built by him only loses in $ per kilometer built to the english channel tunnel). We have really bad exemples from right wing politicians here.
So while I think it's ok the right wing that decreases the state, improve national finances and promotes economic growth, I am horrified by politicians that insert subjetive moral values into the state, like religion (and I´m a very religious man) or screw up finances by increasing deficits while decreasing social benefits. Hard liners that defends violence as a mean to solve problems are also disliked by me. Paulo Maluf whom I wrote before defends a police as gentle as Gestapo to deal with the rampant violence seen in Brazil that results from having close together rich neighborhoods with settlements holding millions of miserable people with no education, therefore no job in today´s world, which the only occupation left is to rape one another and use drugs (the reality is a bit worse than that due to my bad english - my mother works in such places as a doctor and she tells me terrifying stories).
)... I can't imagine a fool handling tough negotiations as President of the biggest sindicate of South America, under a dictatorship, or leading a party like the Worker's Party here, with a lot of tendencies and groups (some of them very, very radical ones... I'm sure Odd can confirm that), or win a presidential election in a country with a very young democracy (we're not in Europe, Fez... even if Spain has a young democracy, the things are very different ), and very conservative people...
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