It was August 3 when Sergio Massa accessed the highest step to which he could aspire under the scheme of the front of all. He did it in a devilish context, with all the imbalances in sight and with an exchange rate gap of around 120%. The devaluation demanded by the market –and Massa had promoted so many times in private as a virtuous way out of the crisis– This time it was the only thing that was forbidden by the vice president. “This ship is sinking and I have no escape. I’m going to play to get it out of the water,” the new minister told one of the economists who did not want to accompany him in those crucial hours. It was a part of the truth.
The other could be seen in the viral images of the militancy of the Renovation Frontwho indulged in the festive atmosphere at the Pink House. It was a violent contrast with the crisis the country was experiencing and with the face of the President Alberto Fernandez, invited to what appeared to be his own political funeral. But he was expressing the exceptional occasion before which the massismo was finally foundproduct of the general weakness of an unviable government society, which had already burned all the ships.
It was the default government from which he had waited his chance to crouch, while the main partners of the alliance harmed each other, without benefit of inventory. It was the anticipated delivery of power that the vice president forced her to make to her chosen one Fernandez in the hands of Massa, the politician who had the ambition to be a candidate for president for a decade, but had committed the heresy of emancipating himself from CFK. It was the real possibility that the Peronism of Cristina Kirchner will turn on his own steps in history and began to retrace the path of two decades in politics. It was the safe-conduct for the headquarters of La Cámpora stop denouncing Guzmán’s adjustment and become fascinated with the image of that Massa who moved as an owner between the tables of the establishment. It was the passage from a long-lasting populism to an experiment in power that was willing to lower almost all its flags as long as it did not return to the elements.
*By Diego Genoud, journalist author of “El arribista del poder”, d Siglo XXI.
by Diego Genoud*
