Jonathan A.C. Brown

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Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown, Amerikan İslami araştırmalar bilginidir. 2012'den beri Georgetown Üniversitesi Edmund A. Walsh Dışişleri Okulu'nda doçent olarak görev yapmaktadır. Georgetown Üniversitesi'nde Alwaleed bin Talal İslam Medeniyeti Kürsüsü'ne sahiptir.
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Washington, DC, ABD, 9 Ağustos 1977

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No matter what their views on populism, few people can ignore the remarkable success that Argentines garnered in the period of industrialization.
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Nearly all the great cities of today’s Latin America had been established between 1492 and the second founding of Buenos Aires in 1580. Thus, the conquest phase in Spanish America ended at Buenos Aires, 88 years and 4,000 miles from the scene of Columbus’s original contact. It was, however, only the beginning of a 300-year struggle for Argentina between the land’s tenacious first inhabitants and the European interlopers.
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Argentina has a population that ranks among the most educated and skilled in Latin America, and its citizens have made major contributions to the world. Illiteracy scarcely exists among even the poor and working-class citizens, and Argentina’s middle class historically has been large and politically engaged.
Once again, the judiciary proved too weak to overcome the impunity enjoyed by members of the executive and legislative branches. Some of the cases came before judges appointed by Menem himself. The president had also expanded the Supreme Court and appointed a majority of the justices. Some functionaries accused of corruption brought libel suits against the newspapers and reporters who had exposed them. Government television announcers routinely attacked print reporters who wrote stories about bribery and corruption. One reporter was even assassinated. At one moment during Menem’s first term, nearly a dozen cabinet-level and senior officials had been tainted by charges of corruption. “Menem has so centralized power in the judiciary that I am very worried,” said one prominent attorney quoted in yet another New York Times article. “But what makes me most afraid is that people don’t seem to care. All they seem to be worrying about is whether there is low inflation” (Nash 1991, 15).
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Questions about corruption among the highest officials plagued Menem’s administration from the beginning. The president had appointed his relatives to high government positions, which they used, reporters alleged, to launder drug money. Questions also arose about the duty-free import of foreign luxury cars. A group of Italian businessmen gave President Menem, who loved fast cars, a new Ferrari.
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