Realism from the outside, Macri vendetta | Signs of …

Two great diplomatic clues went unnoticed in Argentina. One came from the United States and another from Brazil.

"The United States hopes to continue our strong partnership
with the Argentine people and their elected leaders, regardless of the candidate chosen by the Argentine people as the next president, "said the journalist Rafael Mathus Ruiz, de La Nación, spokesman for the Department of Hemisphere Affairs Western State Department.The Western Hemisphere is the denomination used for the continent.The statement was made Wednesday, August 28, in the midst of the Argentine financial crisis and under the accusations of Alberto Fernández against the responsibility The IMF, along with the government, is guilty of what it has defined as a "catastrophe." Reading is obvious: Washington has accompanied Macri to the gate of the cemetery and will stay there, badyzing the scenario to come.

The other indication came from the Vice President of Brazil, General Hamilton Mourao. Friday, August 30, in a speech
In front of the Rio de Janeiro Business Association, Mourao said: "It is obvious that we would like President Macri, who has very good relations with our government, to win the elections. But there are very strong indications that the win will be Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner. "

President Jair Bolsonaro said that "leftist criminals have begun to return to power." Mourao, on the other hand, recalled that "Argentina is our largest trading partner". He said that "a large part of our manufactured products are exported to Argentina and that is why we have to maintain these links".

The general does not belong specifically to the Lula Workers Party. It expresses the conservative and liberal line of the Brazilian elite who overthrew Dilma Rousseff. But he maintains the differences with Bolsonaro, so far in style, and lets know if they will be in the future. Your message, like Washington's, should be read in the same way. With Macri, only at the gate of the cemetery. If Macri manages to escape his political death, the generals will see what they do. Otherwise, they will deal with who governs Argentina, even if this relation is distant and lacks the personal and political affection of Lula and Néstor Kirchner or Raúl Alfonsín and José Sarney.

The Argentine government seems to ignore these two strong paths from the United States and Brazil. Like the makers of bad sausages, Mauricio Macri makes an unforgivable mistake: buy what he sells. Where appropriate, images and campaign rather than politics and economics. This is why the government does not understand the reality. You may not want to understand it either. Defeats are for tanned politicians. Even dreaming of the miracle of an October 27 other than STEP, macroism should test the break with its own script. The problem is that, despite his seemingly realistic and pragmatic speech, the president has directed the most ideological administration of Argentina's history. He bought what he sold.

The relationship between the government and the IMF, its campaign financier who used Fernandez's phrase on the Wall Street Journal, did not end well. Evidence of this premature end is another under-interpreted clue. After STEP, Nicolás Dujovne, Minister of Finance attached to the Fund, resigned with a letter to Macri in which he praises himself and underlines the hope that "our beloved country can finally deviate from a cycle of decades d & # 39; failure. " It ends like this: "I only have words of respect and I thank you, personally and in your role of political leader." Throughout the text, which starts with "Dear Mauricio", the word "President" does not appear. Another clue that Dujovne, and perhaps also the Fund with which he sealed his fate, ended a step.

Macri is isolated. However, it still has the power of the state's headquarters device. Play with an illusion and a plane B. The illusion is to go to waivers or, at the very least, not to lose the huge bastion of affairs that the continuity of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in the CABA means for your group of members. Plan B is the one that has been applied since the STEP: inflict, as vendetta, the most serious possible damages to the Argentines.

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