Macri, the naked torso – Infobae

Are we doomed to failure? Argentina is about to lose the last chance to become, once and for all, a republic. The capital, the province of Buenos Aires and the nation, for the first and perhaps the last time, are governed by the same force, different from Peronism and radicalism. However, the illusions of channeling this powerful trinity went to Riachuelo, a sad metaphor for Argentina. Indeed, this unnamed river belonging to the city of Buenos Aires, the province and the nation represents the dump for lost opportunities.

This stinking stream that hugs us from the back to suffocation is the true face of who we really are and what we are made of: rotten corruption, marginality and misery.. We are France is the Seine; Austria and Hungary, the Danube; New York, Hudson; London, the Thames. And we, the Riachuelo. It's the cruel reality. Where Paris has the Louvre, Buenos Aires has the city 21. Where Budapest erects the Parliament, Buenos Aires maintains a succession of toxic tanneries. In the privileged enclave in which London exhibits the Palace of Westminster, Buenos Aires hides its clandestine dumps. We can not look at ourselves in this mirror of water that is not even capable of rendering an image. This government has not been able to build a mirror to look at or, in other words, an opposition.

The best work of a government is the opposition it could build. If an administration is not able to generate opposition, it will be unable to form a government. After an encouraging start, the administration of Mauricio Macri decided to play Russian roulette and to promise Argentina's future to bet on a crazy sect. The experience of Jaime Durán Barba has turned against him. The monster to which he has breathed the vital breath has risen and advances against his creator. The government is lying when it claims to have not participated in the election of its candidate. Parents are not chosen. The friends are chosen and, therefore, the enemies are also chosen.

The government has just surrendered to the enemy it chose. Battles for power, rather than politics, are cultural. The president himself said this when he acknowledged the difficulty of fighting inflation: "It is not as easy as expected, there are cultural behaviors that it is expensive to eradicate ". It's true: the problem is cultural.

Although this does not seem to be the case, even if it is not perceived, there is a secretariat that deals with or, better said, should deal with cultural issues. The former Minister of Culture in office, Mr. Pablo Avelluto, never understood what was the delicate issue entrusted to him. Avelluto should know that culture is the main contribution of a country. Marco Polo knew this when he understood that doing business was just an exchange of cultural products. Shakespeare, the Rolling Stones and Ian Fleming were the spearheads of the great British companies. France was able to sell its cars to the world because previously, it exported to Victor Hugo, Charles Aznavour and Michel Houellebecq. The United States is Jack London, Elvis Presley and Francis Ford Coppola. First, the culture is progressing; companies come back.

Mr. Avelluto, on the other hand, devoted himself to exercising a very popular cultural populism that led him to set up a football field at the Colombian Book Fair in 2018. "I apologize on behalf of all Argentines for the shameful scenario of a football stadium mounted on a book party, we certainly celebrate these outstanding football players Borges, Bioy Casares, Alejandra Pizarnik, Cortazar, Martin Fierro on … but I m ​​39 still apologize for this absurd gesture of populism, "said Alberto Manguel at the inauguration of the stand, before presenting his resignation to the address of the National Library.

Avelluto's disease quickly spread to the Ministry of the Economy. The government first went in the field of culture and, later, in the field of the economy.

Beyond the sympathies or antipathies that can elicit these economic measures, it is a cultural defeat. This government does not believe in the power of language. The main center in which the ideas of the ruling party are on display is called the Kirchner Cultural Center. It's exactly like that the enemies are chosen: when they are named, when they are kept in the public media, when they are subsidized, when their voice is amplified. The government chose the culture of the enemy.

The president and his ministers decided to take a mini-vacation. Exhausted, they went to rest country After announcing a plan of measures that they have never believed: control of commodity prices, freezing tariffs and rigid intervention on the value of the dollar. Again, the problem is cultural. This set of measures, which can be appreciated or not, is perceived by markets as the delivery of the last cultural flags. They even adopted the words of the opponent: "Support Price", "Now Twelve" and "Procreating" right of author of the enemy if desired.

We had not gotten used to Macri in his unlikely role of Freddie Mercury when we had to learn to tolerate the shirtless Macri, the new national and popular Macri so hard to badimilate either side of the 39 cultural abyss that has been called crack.