The 90's:The argentines knew what was going on.
There were a lot of time and opportunities to change the economic policies during Menems regime. The opposition and intellectuals could warned and protested against the steadily increasing external debt. People could have run into the streets before the catastrophe was a fact. But nobody did nothing because everone loved the peg to the dollar. Have anybody heard an Argentine feeling sorry about those foreign people who lost 75% of their saving due to the Argentine default?