Mauricio Macri with Mario Vargas Llosa: "Here, there is no Riquelme to save you"

"Regarding poverty, we are in the same starting place, but now we have to persist in this way, there is no (Juan Román) Riquelme to save you".

Mauricio Macri has called this football badogy, allusive to the multi-champion and one of the best players of Boca Juniors in history, to badyze the reality of the country and the direction given by his government in a juicy speech held on Tuesday in one of the North Park lounges next to the writer Mario Vargas Llosa, at a dinner organized by the Libertad Foundation the second day of the visit of the kings of Spain.

"A friend who told me that he will vote again for you badured me that you were wrong in gradualism," he said, by way of question, the Nobel laureate of literature in a kind of interview in the room of Goldencenter, filled by a good part of the national cabinet and special guests, in a conversation initiated by Gerardo Bongiovanni, president of the Libertad Foundation.

Macri, thoughtful, took a few seconds to answer. "Many people think the same thing here, I'll tell you what I think." There was no awareness of the level of seriousness of what was happening in Argentina. We were blind, without statistics. I acknowledge that we lost time, and we put the emphasis and optimism that was not in the possibility of being realized. Gradualism also explains a government in the minority, structural reforms, it is necessary to reach a consensus. In poverty, we are in the same starting place, but what we have to do now is to persist in this way. There is no Riquelme to save you, "said the head of state in front of nearly a thousand participants, in a crowded hall, Macri chaired Boca Juniors for more than ten years under the splendor of the star Xeneize.

Beyond sincerity, Macri returned to ratify the management of his management. "What are you going to do if you win the elections again?" Vargas Llosa asked him. "I will try to follow the same path as quickly as possible," replied the president. "Do you see a possibility of solution?", Asked the Peruvian writer again. "It's very difficult. We spoke yesterday with the King of Spain. I've been looking at this for a long time. Venezuela lives is incredible. And that shows that you can always be worse. I am not optimistic about what is happening in Venezuela. I am happy to have already received 180,000 Venezuelans in this country, good people who work, "said the head of state, very critical, as an interviewer from time to time, the regime of Chavez.

"The change that needs to be made is very deep, we have made progress and we are now going to take a difficult road, people are struggling to make ends meet, but I am convinced that it is the way. There is also the electoral doubt. Argentina will trace the commitments, but we will reaffirm the path of dialogue. The campaign will reaffirm that we, the Argentineans, will not come back "Macri pointed out hopefully late at night. He had arrived with his wife Juliana Awada.

Among the participants distinguished themselves Marcos Peña, Patricia Bullrich, Pablo Avelluto, Jose Torello, Claudio Avruj, Eugenio Burzaco and the economists Miguel Ángel Broda, Guillermo Nielsen and Ricardo Lopez Murphy.