Javier Milei is not the first essay, but it is the most profound, cruel and logical by the way. You can’t accumulate so much dirt under the carpet without it ending up wreaking havoc. In particular, about a seventies mask that declaimed about the expansion of rights, while splashing in the mud of 210% annual inflation. That is to say, a symptom equivalent to that of high blood pressure that, in the long run, inflicts serious wounds on the human body in all its central components.
Carlos Menem, today coming out of the closet after more than two decades of oblivion crowned by a solitary burial in 2021, sensed it in the no longer cursed decade of the 90s. It was necessary to inject new blood into the corroded hyperinflationary political system of the 80s and he did it through three characters who passed the plebeian blood test with difficulty, with the only exception of Ramón “Palito” Ortega, governor of Tucumán in 1991 and candidate to Eduardo Duhalde’s vice president in 1999.
However, it became clear in the end that not one, nor several swallows made summer and that all, without exception, functioned under the logic of politics leads and the stone guest society suffers. It goes for Daniel Scioli, for Carlos “Lole” Reutemann and for the last great failed hope for fresh air Mauricio Macri. And what can we say about the recent attempt by Facundo Manes who, having managed to reach Cambridge from humble Salto, was tempted to decode the opaque swamp of radicalism?
In that suffocating context typical of a Kafka story, society howled with anger like never before, opening, as in the masterful German series Dark, a portal to 1989 that is more of a Pandora’s Box from which today emerges, first and foremost, the sweet nostalgia for that romantic getaway to Rio de Janeiro, the trip to the United States without a visa, door-to-door travel and the big international brands populating the still expectant Alvear Avenue today.
However, all this strangely combined with a gray-haired Carlos Ruckauf, a Roberto Dromi who passed away, a “His” Giménez talking with his past version and a Yanina Latorre who is not in the news today for her paradisiacal photos with the former soccer star Diego Latorre, but for her withering media encounters with both entertainment and political figures who, in the sharp back-and-forth, even undermine her with the juicy audios of “Gambeta”, today for many “Puntita”, which so animated the local stands.
*By Daniel Montoya, political analyst, author of “United States versus China, Argentina in the new technological cold war.”
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