ARGENTINA’S SOAP OPERA
Why must this nation’s top urban Sunday newspaper consistently show itself to be “really American” by hammering any country south of the border?
O’Donnell’s scathing, one-sided, hypocritical attack on Argentina President Menem is bewildering. Since when has the U.S. White House maintained unsullied morality? In less than two generations, Warren Harding conceived a child in a White House closet, Kennedy had extramarital relations, and Nixon had his second term foreshortened.
Is Argentina’s nation of more than 30 million doing so poorly? Its literacy rate is 94%, its GNP $75 billion, and its per capita growth rate exceeds 2%. American tourists are safe in its 3-million-person capital. It has long been a major trading partner with the United States. This is a “soap opera” economy?
Selectively attacking our Latin American neighbors, as The Times does consistently, worries anyone advocating a viable Pan-American family.
ALFRED L. GINEPRA JR.
Los Angeles
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