Silvia Fesquet
08/30/2020 - 18:15
- Clarín.com
- Opinion
“A space flight system will be put out to tender, from a platform that may be installed in the province of Córdoba. Those spaceships, with all the comforts available and to be found, are going to go out into the atmosphere, they are going to go back to the stratosphere, and from there choose the place where they want to go. In such a way that in an hour and a half we can be from Argentina to Japan, Korea, or anywhere in the world . And, of course, flights to other planets ... ”. It was 1996 and the then president Carlos Menem inaugurated the school cycle in a school in Salta. The amazement was reflected in the faces of the students, and it spread to the rest of the country, but the thing did not happen from there: neither Japan, nor Korea nor NASA considered that it was necessary to ask for any clarification. Neither did Greece, -although the Riojahe boasted of having the complete works of Socrates as his main book, being that the philosopher never published written work-, nor Spain, when he attributed to Atahualpa Yupanqui the verses of Antonio Machado "walker there is no path, the path is made by walking". In turn, Cristina Kirchner also had her lapse with the Iberian letters by confusing Don Quixote with Cervantes and later reinterpreting a phrase, that of "Ladran, Sancho ..." which, strictly speaking, is not in the original work but in the script that he wrote for the cinema Orson Welles. That anyone has a cultural lapse was made clear when last year, when inaugurating the International Congress of the Spanish Language in Córdoba, the King of Spain, Felipe VI, referred to Borges as José Luis, instead of Jorge, an error that Mauricio Macri had already committed as Head of Government of the City. JLB seems to have no luck: shortly after taking office, at the launch of the National Reading Plan, Alberto Fernández said that, being his wonderful poetry, the writer was recognized for his novels, a genre in which he never ventured.
The literary furcio of the President did not happen to majors. Another class of whores, with repercussions and denials abroad, would arrive later . The last one is just a few days old. In his eagerness to justify the Decree of Necessity and Urgency that declares essential services to the Internet, telephony and pay TV, freezes their rates until the end of the year and opens the door to a virtual control of their contents, Fernández questioned the criticisms that were raised and He said: “They think that Argentina becomes Venezuela because it regulates rights in favor of the people. I consider myself an admirer of two countries, for how the State works: Norway and Finland. In those two countries these are public services. Before they say that we are Venezuela, I hope we look like Norway or Finland , but they don't count that. " Through its embassy in Argentina, Finland's denial was not long in coming: in that country, it was clarified, the Government does not set prices for Internet, telephony, or pay TV . To add that "the Finnish market in general is based on open competition among its players, which encourages a climate of greater choice and competitive prices for consumers."
Enthusiast of the filmstrip, and adopting a didactic and sometimes even condescending tone with his citizens-disciples , as if instead of giving a message to the country he was teaching a class in the faculty, from the hand of the pandemic the President has reaped mentises, Diplomatic claims and clarifications from countries as dissimilar as Sweden, Paraguay, Spain and Chile . When referring to the deaths from coronavirus in that country reported by Fernández, in a graph with errors in the percentage of the population considered, and which appeared as higher than those of Argentina, President Sebastián Piñera remarked that his country had a different policy and was doing more tests. And he finished off with a "It reminds me of a phrase from Serrat: 'The truth is never sad, what is hopeless'" . Coincidentally, the same one that Alberto F. has just assigned to the leaders of Together for Change, furious at another controversial presidential statement: "Argentina did better with the coronavirus than with the Macri government."
Chicanas on the sidelines, and not to mention the denials that Axel Kicillof and his Minister of Health Daniel Gollán from Spain (Barcelona) and Brazil received in turn, for statements about the handling of the pandemic, it is difficult to understand how they can make the President get so many wrong information on such sensitive issues. Unless they are officials trained by the teachers who on public television failed to correctly multiply 4.35 x 10.