03/14/2021 18:30
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Updated 03/14/2021 18:30
“His administration was no less impartial with respect to the distribution of jobs and honors
.
At a time when all the important offices were available to him, there is no example that any were awarded in favor.
Worthy citizens had no need to approach the government, and woo it, to get the award of its services.
They went to their homes to find them with the most valuable jobs and the rewards to which they were credited.
Perhaps this extraordinary rectitude in an insurgent will seem implausible
, but in testimony of being indubitable, note that Dr. Moreno was the soul of the Junta in all that time, that he was my brother and that he
had a long family to favor.
(...) I have remained in the same situation that I had in the command of the viceroys, the same thing happening to the other brothers and individuals of this house, that there is not one who has received the slightest advance from the revolutionary government " .
The VIP Vaccination scandal was in full swing
.
On a visit to Yapeyú, Corrientes, to commemorate the 243rd anniversary of the birth of San Martín, President Alberto Fernández, furious at the repercussions that culminated in the departure of the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, used the evocation of men of the 1800 that, unlike him, according to affirmed
"they did not have to fight against the malicious preaching of the newspapers, television and networks"
, to add that he used to think of San Martín, Belgrano or Güemes as to be inspired by those adversities that they go through it.
Saving all the distances between one and the other, it is a pity that he did not also think of Mariano Moreno, whose death marked 210 years just days later, on March 4.
It would have been a very pertinent example, in the midst of the tumult that is not silenced about vaccines and privileged vaccinates, the text of his brother Manuel, in "Life and Memories of Mariano Moreno", with which this column starts.
It is very difficult to imagine that revolutionary, himself authentic, founder of La Gaceta and a leading figure in the events of May,
making friends, relatives or supporters pass through the left to
receive, at that time, the equivalent of what Sputnik is today V or substitutes, and above falsifying their true professions to disguise them as health personnel.
The fact is that today's "revolutionaries" lack what those, real revolutionaries, had in excess.
Among other things, coherence, uncompromising morals, a sense of ethics.
Before, words were sympathetic to action, and courage was being able to live as you thought.
Now there is cackling in the campaign
- to use a term so fashionable these days - for, more than the chickens, to end up doing like the teros: to shout in a place, or to promise something in the campaign, and once they have reached power , to put the eggs, or the acts and the actions, in another very different one.
Something like what Menem sadly blanked out: “
If I said what I was going to do, who would vote for me?
”.
Pragmatism, and Argentinity, to the stick.
The thing about the Riojano was brutal honesty.
In general, hypocrisy prevails
.
As in the salad of said and contradictions of the
vaccines offered "under the table
", or to the side, or forward - the location is the least of it - and by interposting people, to brilliant names, and conveniently chosen, that would serve to whitewash ideology on the one hand and neutralize criticism of any kind should something go wrong, on the other.
Something like favor, or immunization, with favor is paid.
They are liquid times, as Bauman said.
Before, the nation was given cheers and the public good was a supreme value.
"
It cannot be tolerated that self-esteem or personal views sustain a conduct that compromises public tranquility,
" Moreno said.
Now the vivas are given in the Instituto Patria, and to support the interests and private goods, and the way in which they were obtained, all efforts are dedicated.
Despite whoever falls, and whoever falls.
And if not, let the minister-ex-minister-quasi-ex-minister Marcela Losardo say so.
Argentina, as the centuries go by.
