During his time on “The caste is in order”, Daniel Santa Cruz’s program on Radio República AM 770, the journalist and writer Jorge Asís left one of his sharpest phrases about the direction of Javier Milei’s government. The writer and political analyst spoke about the link with the United States, the midterm elections and the eternal potential condition of Argentina.
During the talk, Asís commented on a recent interview by Luis “Toto” Caputo with Luis Majul in La Nación+. “I heard him say that the United States does not ask us for anything, except political and economic alignment with Donald Trump. So they ask us for everything,” he said ironically. From that observation, he launched the phrase that marked the note: “This Government has a great colonial vocation.”
The author of Diario de la Argentina later explained that the expression is not his. “As the Doctor said,” he clarified, in reference to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who spoke of the “colony vocation” of certain sectors of the country during the event on May 25, 2023 in Plaza de Mayo, twenty years after the inauguration of Néstor Kirchner.
“An alliance between the public and the private” to regulate strategic resources such as Vaca Muerta gas and lithium without losing sovereignty. To those who criticize the possibility of repeating in the country the experience of Bolivia and Chile that declared lithium as a strategic resource, she said: “But what a vocation for a colony, brother!”, the former president had said two years ago.
Far from limiting his view to local politics, he also gave his opinion about Donald Trump: “He already did something very difficult that turned out well, which was peace in the Middle East. Russia and Ukraine didn’t work out, but if he manages to solve Argentina, he shouldn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, but rather the all-encompassing Nobel Prize.” This connected him with his recurring idea of Argentine “eternal potentiality.” “This potential of the country that never ends. We all have this story well assimilated since childhood,” he reflected.
As for the government, Asís highlighted that the Milei phenomenon is in a moment of decantation: “It replaced one larretista with another.” With this, he referred to the fact that Milei, who always criticized Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, had José Luis Espert in his government, who had been linked to Larreta, and after his departure, he appointed Diego Santilli, former vice head of the Buenos Aires government under Larreta. “It is as if Larreta was morally repaired,” he concluded.
