“It reminded me of a girl. It works here too Encuentro Channel and Paka Paka. Now, they don’t put the Donald Ducknow we have Zamba, San Martín, Belgrano and Juana Azurduy. Now we have our own heroes, reality and culture for all Argentines. Freedom, culture, memory, truth and justice forever and for all”, was the speech he gave Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at an event held in ESMA Memory Museum.
The images of the fragment of that speech were the one chosen by the vice president for the inauguration of her new account. TikTok. In that sense, the former president, replicating her video on her X account (previously called Twitter), fired a shot at the controversial statements of the libertarian candidate. Ramiro Marra.
The Buenos Aires leader of Freedom Advances He stated this Sunday that if he wins Javier Milei The presidential elections will close public media such as the Public Television and the Paka Paka channel who, according to his mother, goes down “ideological tendency”. “Surely it can also be a good financing alternative to reduce poverty in Argentina, since if you sell a public media you get money, you can invest that money in education and health,” said Marra.
Beyond the discursive rhetoric of the former president, Disney’s influence in the country dates back almost a century and was marked in legendary animated productions with its most recognized characters. In September 1941, on a tour of South America, Walt Disney He visited Argentina for the first time. The initiative was the idea of the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, who financed the project to promote North American culture.
The Second World War and the Axis countries were consolidating themselves as a great threat to USA. In order to strengthen ties with Latin AmericaRoosevelt created the policy of “Good neighbor” and sent its main cultural ambassador to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay to foster hemispheric solidarity against external threats. The businessman toured Mendoza, Río Negro and Buenos Aires and visited the painter’s studio Florencio Molina Campos.
In 1942, Disney released “Greetings, friends” and, in 1944, “The Three Caballeros”. Two animated feature films set in South America, in which their characters, including the Donald Duck and Goofy, learn the art of the gauchos. Also “The flying gauchito” It was another film from 1944, which tells the story of an Argentinian who had a flying donkey.
Finally, many local cartoonists were workers for the Disney Studiossome of them with previous experience in cartoons from the productions of the Argentine pioneer Dante Quinternocreator of Patoruzu. An influence from the north, some time later, continued in other local works of the Argentine animated genre.
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