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Mauricio Macri has already elected the electoral opponent: Nicolás Maduro. Whether Cristina Kirchner is a candidate or not, Felipe Solá or Agustín Rossi, the Pro will seek to face the Venezuelan cuckoo. As in the cold war. For Moscow, all the ills were called Washington and vice versa. In the hot war Macri the devil calls Venezuela.

The last move happened in Avellaneda. The mayor, Peronist Jorge Ferraresi, proposed the inauguration of a place bearing the name of "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela". This is the full name of the country. As "Federative Republic of Brazil" or "Democratic People's Republic of Vietnam", two of the nations visited recently by the President. For the unprepared, the adjective "Bolivarian" is not synonymous with populist or communist. He refers to Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), one of the liberators of South America and author, among other texts, of the Jamaican Charter of 1815. A paragraph says: simply pbadive, is not it a scandal and a violation of the rights of humanity? "

The macrismo sought to present the inauguration of the square, in the streets Emile Zola and Nicaragua, as if it was the conversion of Avellaneda into a free state badociate of Venezuela. A series of political and intellectual leaders have proclaimed that Ferraresi's decision "offended the millions of Venezuelans who are under the oppression of the ferocious dictatorship led by Nicolás Maduro". They added that "utilizing the public space and resources of all Avellaneda residents to support an oppressive and authoritarian regime represents a dangerous and intimidating message that the Argentine categorically repudiates". They also claimed the leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó, whom they described as "president in charge of Venezuela".

Among others, the writers Marcos Aguinis and Santiago Kovadloff have signed. But the most interesting is who is at the top of the list of signatures among politicians: Gladys González. The signatory went public in 2017 when she seconded Esteban Bullrich to Senate nominations for the province of Buenos Aires. The absence of trainee between CFK and Florencio Randazzo caused the division of the Peronist vote and the defeat of the former president. That's why Gladys González entered the Senate. However, his vocation is territorial: he wants to contest Avellaneda's intention against Peronism and to occupy it on December 10 of this year. In other words, in addition to supporting Guaidó as a hero of freedom, he has a narrower and more prosaic interest.

Contrary to the answer that he tried on other occasions, Peronism was not entangled in the struggle posed by the Pro, as for example Marcelo Brignoni, former legislator of Santa Fe and member of Mundo Sur, a foreign policy group led by Jorge Taiana and Oscar. Laborde said that "if the governments of the province of Buenos Aires and the Nation fulfill their role, stewards such as Jorge Ferraresi should not have to take care of health, education, the security, infrastructure and development of public spaces such as Plaza República Bolivariana de Venezuela. "According to Brignoni, the intendants replace" the roles and functions of those who have deserted President Macri and Governor Maria Eugenia Vidal ". For the Peronist legislator, "The signatories of this offensive note should perhaps deal with citizens left to their fate by the governments they belong to, instead of talking about what is happening thousands of miles away. and to do it, to crown it all, with total ignorance and contempt ". Brignoni said that "they do not know what happens to their neighbors".

The episode can serve as an example for what will happen in the future. The ruling party will try not to talk about the economy and create ghosts like Venezuela's. Mauricio Macri dreams of Nicolás Maduro. The opposition will try not to meddle with the controversy surrounding Maduro and respond with the economy.

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