It was a true massacre that suffered last night in the Senate Javier Milei’s veto to the emergency in disability, which now became law: 63 votes against and only 7 in favor, those of the Kamikazes libertarians who promise to accompany him until the end. The lessons are obvious. When a ruler attacks something as sacred as families who have children or adults with disabilities and cuts expenses of the state where he simply cannot do it, the reaction – later or later – will arrive. Javier Milei and his famous chainsaw had gotten into the middle class, with retirees, with employees who do not reach the end of the month -more than half of the Argentine families, according to some reliable surveys -but the limit arrived when an autistic boy, Ian Moche, of only 12 years, appeared on the other side.
The president came to mistreat him on his social networks, with the usual impunity, and even pointed it out as a militant of Kirchnerism who was conspiring against the government in programs of journalists such as Paulino Rodrigues, renamed “Pan -Pautino” in a doubtful humor of the libertarian leader. Ian’s family resorted to justice so that Milei amends his obvious mistake, apologized public or at least erased the tweet in question, but an appropriate magistrate of those who give good news to the ruling party on duty, Alberto Recondo, dismissed the claim two weeks ago and even forced the moche to pay the costs of the trial.
What did the Government digital trolls do from that moment? Covered by the unusual resolution of the judge, they redoubled their attacks on the networks against the boy. What did the Senate now, as the Chamber of Deputies before? He put a brake on so much madness. Can the highest authority of a country face an autistic child? Can you fall lower? Did Milei really believe that public opinion would put on his side?
Let us remember how this unlikely fight began that dragged the first president to discredit. In the midst of government cuts in the area of disability, where thousands of pensions were discharged without any medical criteria -they just cared about accounting and zero deficit -, Ian Moche’s mother told in public what Diego Spagnuolo, the former head of the Andis, told him when she went to see him. Spagnuolo, then a friend and lawyer of the president, said: “If you had a child with disabilities, that is the problem of the family, not the State.” And he rounded the idea with these words: “Why do I have to pay tolls and you don’t?”
To defend his friend and lawyer, Milei third in the controversy and had no better idea than attacking the autistic boy. That was the beginning of the snowball that culminated with yesterday’s vote. There is something called Karma. Where did Spagnuolo end after that? Denouncing the president and his sister Karina for the damn coimas of 3 percent that she and “lule” Menem would have collected among the pharmaceutical companies that worked with the Andis, as he heard from explaining in detail in the audios that shock the government. It is an ending that has some poetic justice. Milei’s lawyer, who had the mission of covering his back in justice, is the one who has just incriminated him.
Ian Moche sure will be smiling. He won 63 to 7.
