I admit it, I’ve been slow to write about Greece again. There is news on the Greek crisis every day that is worth writing about, and yet somehow it all seems the same as two years ago.
But then along came Alexis Tsipras, who at 37 is likely to be the next leader in this odyssey of debt. Outside of Greece he and his “Coalition of the Radical Left” are not well known, which is only reasonable. They aren’t that well known in Greece, either. What matters is that he is playing his hand perfectly and may well stand up to the big banks of Europe after June 17th.
Will this former youth organizer for the Communist Party be successful, not just in winning power but leading his nation away from disaster? It seems unlikely, but if it happens it will be one Hell of a story.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 