In Argentina, where politics and entertainment tend to intertwine like bare wires, it is not surprising that from time to time a spark flies. What is surprising is who is starring in the latest combustion: Luciana Salazar and Ramiro Marratwo figures who, until yesterday, lived together in parallel universes… or so we believed, because it turns out that the plot even includes childhood memories, as if they were two secondary characters from “Summer of ’98” who life has just promoted to protagonists.
The meeting took place in an exclusive restaurant in Palermo—like every Buenos Aires romance that aspires to headline—where Marra, now a former legislator and recently broken up after his separation from the former Italian tennis player, decided to greet Salazar. One imagines a formal greeting, a kind gesture… but no: the man grabbed the chair and did not move again, a sign of political firmness if ever there was one. And that’s where the exchange began: laughter, anecdotes, shared memories of nearby schoolsas if life had said “well, that’s it, let’s put these two timelines together.”
She, who is not new to the balance between entertainment and thread —let us remember its long and noisy history with Martin Redradothe only economist capable of discussing the food quota with the same passion with which he discusses BCRA reserves—was genuinely surprised. “Very loving,” he said of Marra. That phrase already set off alerts: in the media dictionary, “very loving” usually means “we are one WhatsApp away from this being covered.”
But there is more. Marra, who is once again rearing her head in the financial field after her electoral political adventure that ended as quickly as a fixed deadline in 2018, decided to reconquer social ground by telling anecdotes from Salazar’s childhood that not even she remembered. Psychological strategy or simple privileged memory, we do not know. What we do know is that Luli finished laughing, saying that “it made her night.” The country, meanwhile, continued without a stable dollar, but appreciated the entertainment.
They exchanged phones, followed each other on Instagram —which today would be equivalent to the traditional step of giving each other a flower on a balcony— and they left the restaurant each on their own, a gesture that in the famous man’s manual indicates: “we don’t want to confirm anything, but don’t try very hard to deny it either.”
Salazar, always strategic, denied a formal relationship but He left a door open with that phrase that is already cultural heritage: “If you invite me on a date, I will respond privately.” In Creole: this continues, but without cameras (for now).
by RN
