"Marca Cadorna", another sentence of Cristina about the consumption of echo among Italian immigrants

the senator, in the presentation of his book in mendoza / twitter cfk

Luigi Cadorna was an Italian soldier who played in the First World War with a lousy performance. He died in 1928, without even imagining that 90 years later, his name would continue to be badociated with objects of poor quality or second line. The word "cadorna" has been installed in recent days as a new element of the debate about the consumption of the medium and popular sectors in Argentina. The manager was Cristina Fernández de Kirchner again. After talking about the brands "Cuchuflito" and "Pindonga", the former president and vice presidential candidate added "Cadorna" among the fancy brand name names.

He did it during his landing in Mendoza, where he directed the act of presenting his book "Sincerely" and again spoke about the issue of brands and consumption during the Mauricio Macri government. .

"Máximo says" marks the Cadorna ". He is younger Cuchuflito and 'pindonga' are more great, lived and longevity like mine, "announced the current pre-candidacy to the vice president of the Front of all at the presentation of his book in the province of Cuyana.

"In 2014, Argentina had become one of the countries with zero hunger and now had food problems. This marks us in Guatemala, Venezuela and Argentina … Venezuela and Argentina. They remember … that if we continued, we would look like Venezuela. Sorry, today, with food, we are like Venezuela, "said the vice presidential candidate for the Todos Front.

The senator has therefore deepened her critique of the Macri government in economic policy with an expression ("Cadorna") that has become popular in our country over the last century to talk about poor quality products or directly of poor quality. Over the years, it has lost its validity and has been replaced by other more common terms, such as "berreta".

The phrase joined the lunfardo of Buenos Aires with the arrival of Italian immigrants who, disillusioned by the poor performance of the military Luigi Cadorna during the First World War, began to use his surname as synonymous with poor quality.

synonymous with poor quality

According to the archives of the time, the bad strategies and clumsiness of the commander-in-chief of the Italian troops cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers during clashes against the Austro-Hungarian empire, as well as than the loss of valuable artillery pieces.

During the clashes, seeking to conceal tactical errors and lower morale and increase the number of defections, Cadorna authorized selective executions of his soldiers with the aim of "eradicating cowardice", claiming that the war disaster was due to a "lack of military discipline".

After having lost 300,000 men among the dead, the wounded and the prisoners, the soldiers were removed from their posts, badigned to an administrative post. However, with his arrival in power in 1924, Benito Mussolini appointed him quarter.

Tildado "inept and incompetent" of his peers, Cadorna has spent his last years defending himself by writing his memoirs. He died in 1928 at the age of 78, far from power.