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Argentina Latente

The "Pampa" is an advanced training airplane with many other capacities that could be added to it.
This aircraft came out in 1988 and had cutting-edge technology at the time.
This factory was once the biggest in all of South and Central America.
Over 10 thousand people worked here then; we had engineers, researchers and labs.
The industry grew here and was practiced as it should be.
We owned all of it.
That great factory is now a simple workshop dedicated to the maintenance of aircrafts.
The Lockheed Company didn't invest in the factory at all; they didn't need to.
Everything was ready.

The personnel was already trained, the facilities were in perfect conditions.
They had it all.
The government gave away every intellectual patent to Lockheed.
Every single development, even the "Pampa", was given away.
- In exchange of what?
- Absolutely nothing; nothing at all...
- The "Pampa" is owned by Lockheed...
- Lockheed owns it.
I believe this was orchestrated and planned to dismantle every single Argentinean industry, so nothing is manufactured here anymore...
Do you think the aeronautical industry can be reactivated?
- Yes, I believe so...
- Why? I think reactivation is possible because there is a will to do it.