The language of Macri, Cristina and the king

It is better to keep the tongue and to look ridiculous than to show it and dispel doubts, it could be paraphrased to Groucho Marx. In fact, the Language Congress in Córdoba was the scene of an exhibition of long and confused languages. The King of Spain, Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Toussaint of Bourbon and Greece, realized an ancient prophecy of Jorge Luis Borges, who had once said: "I think that in the long run I will figure in the history of literature as José Luis Borges ". But one thing is for the author himself to say The Aleph with this anti-heroic humor that characterized him, another is that the Crown monarch committed similar errata during the Congress of the language in which he claims to govern: "Your José Luis Borges wrote that the language is not only a instrument of communication, but a tradition and a destiny ". It is difficult to find in Borges a eulogistic citation of the language. Borges abhorred all nationalism, even that of the language"The fact is that the Spanish language suffers from several imperfections, but not from that attributed to it by its clumsy defenders: the difficulty, the Spanish is very easy, only the Spaniards consider it painful," he writes.

It was no less difficult to articulate the speech with the Argentine President, who stated that in several Latin American and Spanish countries they spoke "the same language" and erase with a pencil stroke the 250 languages ​​spoken in the different countries of the Ibero-American region, and about twenty languages ​​and dialects of Spain. This forgetfulness has earned Mauricio Macri the reproach of the college of graduates in anthropology of the Argentine Republic. In a statement, he made him see the serious omission that disregards the rights of indigenous peoples included in "constitutional reforms and legislation in force in the region at the end of the last century".

Perhaps because of this difficulty with the language, Macri has transferred the weight of the announcement of the poverty figure on the back of Carolina Stanley and Dante Sica, who have not could find the words to defend such numbers: poverty, 32%; indigence, 6.7%, just the day the dollar scratched 45 pesos and the eve of a 29% increase in gas, in a context of low consumption and production.

The languages ​​of the King and Mauricio Macri were not only in Congress. The language of Cristina Kirchner was also present. Jaime Duran Barba is eager to make sure no one forgets the former president. It is perhaps for this reason that the devalued former Minister of Culture, who became a secretary, took care not to miss the resounding echoes of Cristina's deep voice. Pablo Avelluto is the ambbadador of Kirchnerism to the government. Not only does he display on the walls of his ministry exquisite portraits of the actors of the three A (Argentine Association of Actors), but also personally takes care of who never misses a large delegation of "intellectuals" Kirchner in each of the cultural events of Argentina or anywhere in the world. In fact, the libertarian voice of the men of Open Letter will be present in almost all the tables of debate of the Congress of the language. Local Bolivarians had the opportunity to challenge the king and the president in their own beards. The Secretary of Culture seeks again and again to conquer the heart of the troupe of Kirchner with awards, trips, conferences, invitations to conferences, spaces rented in the public media, tickets for Frankfurt, Madrid and Guadalajara but receives in exchange only perfidy and disdain. Cristina's hosts compete to see who insults her with more contempt: "Cynical!", "Liar", shouted to him his own guests to prevent him from speaking when he tried to speak at the opening ceremony of the opening ceremony of the Mar del Plata Film Festival. The same thing happened a few months later, when his beloved Kirchnerists took the place of the Book Fair and prevented him from delivering the opening speech. But he, heartbroken, insists on the certainty that he will realize the sect's love. Someone should make Avelluto understand, pbadionate, that the precious jewels with which he intends to seduce the girls of Barbados Open Letter are paid by the taxpayers.

The language contains politics and politicians. In fact, the speeches of the King of Spain, Macri and Cristina Kirchner, uttered through Avelluto's mouth and his "cartos", as members of Carta Abierta call themselves, are highly political speeches. And, conversely, whenever leaders make politics, they pay homage to the language. What tragedy devastated this country that went from the Sarmiento speech that he proclaimed with poetic reason "The disciples are the best biography of the teacher "at the" I'm hot and can not bear anymore "of Macri? What has happened in Argentina since "You only learn to think, to work, to be free, always using the freedom" of Nicolás Avellaneda to "You only have to fear God , a bit for me too "by Cristina Kirchner? What alluvium has devastated this land we pbaded from "I have no dream more than the nation as a synthesis of the good of all" from Yrigoyen to "when I see these boxes … ecstasy!" by Néstor Kirchner? What a curse we had to go from "Peace is the supreme conquest that promotes real progress" from Arturo Illia to "If you want to come, come on, we'll present the fight!" from Leopoldo Galtieri? Or, afterwards, with Illia, how did we go from "To be useful, we must be austere, selfless and modest" to "The Ferrari is mía" by Carlos Menem? How is it that the sentences "Instead of keeping the ballot box, the army should better preserve the national heritage and human rights" Raúl Alfonsín and "Los argentinos es derechos y humanos "de Videla were pronounced in the same country? What a bad ray we have fallen to pbad from the argument of Mariano Moreno: "Fanaticism and brutality will make the money of cities and they will cause forever their despondency, their ruin and their misery" to "Peronism will triumph with me or sinmigo "by Herminio Iglesias?

Sad landscape in a country like ours where the noble languages ​​have been lonely and unique, while gossip, like snakes, are still bifid.