Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Peru: Bye Bye Spongebob, Hello (Mecha) Meche


Note: in my haste earlier I wrote "Mecha" Araoz instead of her real handle, 'Meche'. Errare humanum est.

According to breaking reports,
Mercedes Araoz (one of the few good politicos hanging round Twobreakfasts these days) has just been named as Peru's new FinMin, replacing Luis Spongebob Carranza.

Spongebob will be remembered as Mr 6%....no, 5%...no, make that 4%....errr 3%, hold on 2%....aha 1% GDP growthman and architect of the worst hard landing economic slowdown in Peru's modern history. He'll now go back to his cushy and well paid bank job (though they never really stopped his bank salary I hear......but we can't mention that) after taking time off and hanging at the exclusive 'Asia' beach resort South of Lima for a month.

Meanwhile, Mercedes 'Meche' Araoz gets to play at numbers after working up through the ministerial system. A workaholic, a nice person and as it's not a sin let's point out that she's pretty, too.