Eduardo Paladini
08/30/2020 - 17:21
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The paintings were first offered to one of the journalists who most defends Kirchnerism on open TV. He said no . In this case, it was not a question of "banking" the policies of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, but rather of attacking their main opposition rival: Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. When the informative offer reached Víctor Hugo Morales , he found the expected OK. And the Uruguayan rapporteur used the data for one of his editorials, last week, on the cable channel C5N.
The graphs that the Uruguayan journalist showed are like those that the President usually uses when comparing coronavirus figures in Argentina with countries in the region - and that generated some international denials. Here the numbers of deaths and infections in the City were compared with other cities in the world. The graph that presented them also functioned as the title of Morales' column: "Una Buenos Aires de horror".
"The number of deaths is equivalent to 35, 40 planes of 200 passengers. Every time a plane crashes, and that happens every so often, we talk about that tragedy for weeks. Imagine that this happened 35 times in the time that we go" , the journalist exaggerated. In fact, until this Saturday, the City accumulated 2,259 resident deceased , plus 642 non-residents. Adding both figures, it would be between 14 and 15 aircraft.
In any case, the number of deaths per million inhabitants of CABA is still high (above 700). Also contagions (more than 30,000 per million). Proportionally, the highest in the country and higher than other foreign capitals. In favor of the Buenos Aires government, the figure has been stabilized for many weeks, despite the fact that openings were added in different economic and recreational activities. And this relaxed quarantine, plus a moderate speech, made Larreta remain today as the most valued leader, not only among the opponents.
As Clarín said , this new scenario first generated an internal one within the ruling party: K sectors referenced in the Patria Institute and the province of Buenos Aires , Cristina's two strongest fields of action, began to demand that Alberto Fernández stop calling him " friend "to Larreta. They saw with concern that the head of government captured sympathy among voters of the Frente de Todos and positioned himself better than Governor Axel Kicillof.
In his own way, the President complied: he questioned him about the alleged lack of beds in the City for PAMI affiliates and "yesterday (for this Saturday), in the report on 'TV Overdose' , on C5N, a couple of times he called him 'Horacio Rodríguez Larreta', "according to a K source remarked to this newspaper. Fine detail: Kirchnerism is also bothered by being called" Horacio "simply.
The first questions to the head of Government came from referents from La Cámpora , such as Andrés "Cuervo" Larroque and Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro , ministers of the Province and Nation. Then, from Cristina and the president himself. In Morales' editorial last week, two K radicals joined: Leopoldo Moreau and Leandro Santoro. The latter will be one of those leading the new outpost.
The data on infections by Covid in different cities, which was shown by the journalist Víctor Hugo Morales on C5N.
Santoro is a Buenos Aires legislator and the intern for how to treat (or mistreat) Larreta crosses the district squarely. The harshest Kirchnerism raises suspicions about the relationship with Larreta of the Buenos Aires Peronism sector that has as historical references the leader of the building managers, Victor Santa María , and the now presidential adviser Juan Manuel Olmos .
The discomfort K, in some racy discussions, also splashes from time to time to Fernández himself , the leader of the capital's PJ today most famous. Alberto F. and Larreta lived together for a few months as heads of the National and City Cabinet (between 2007 and 2008), and they have a relationship that exceeds the current gap.
What do Larreta and the Buenos Aires ministers say to all this? As this newspaper said, by political strategy, the head of government will try to avoid any confrontation. Days ago, he had no choice but to come out of the closet: he had announced the return to face-to-face classes of more than 5,000 students from underprivileged neighborhoods and then had to backtrack due to the rejection of the National Ministry of Education. In the City they speak of an unfulfilled word. The fight is escalating.
The data on deaths from Covid in different cities, shown by journalist Víctor Hugo Morales on C5N.
Regarding the Covid numbers, the response from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health combined health and political analysis: "First, we find it unfortunate to have to see who does better with the infected or the dead. And then, compare cities in developed countries With ours, where you have vulnerable neighborhoods, it does not correspond. Furthermore, we are in different stages. And we have to see how much each one tests. We test proportionally more than the Province. The analysis will have to be done when the pandemic passes. "
The sources of the ruling party that point against Larreta anticipate precisely that end. They believe that, in the best cases, Argentina will be able to avoid images of collapse, with overflowing hospitals or corpses in the streets, but it will inevitably end up with bad numbers. And they do not want the head of government to get rid of that reprobate.