The US destabilization and economic boycott of Argentina
In 1940 Argentina had a per capita income and a degree of social development that placed her among the most ‘advanced’ countries in the world.1 By 1970 she was already a wellestablished member of the Third World. Argentina's decline, or as some wit once aptly put it, ‘the miracle of Argentine under development’, has led to the formulation of a constellation of explanations, none too satisfactory.