The important thing is that Dylan and Prócer no longer fight

08/09/2021 18:31

• Clarín.com

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Updated 08/09/2021 18:31

Of the popular visits to the Quinta de Olivos during the strictest of quarantine, a lot has been said - with good reason -.

They happened there from birthday parties when the rest of the Argentines

could not even bury their dead, 

to encounters that gave rise to a suspicious succession of contracts with the State.

Practically all the reality analysts spoke of the subject with sharpness, precision and abundance.

The synthesis is simple:

Alberto Fernández did not do what he said we should do

and, once discovered in his lie, he redoubled the bet and instead of apologizing for the error, he wanted to justify himself with another fallacy: “He had to continue governing a country. He had to keep working. What did you want me to do, to stand idly by? ”He said, undaunted, with the voluntary help of Víctor Hugo Morales, who refrained from cross-examining anything.

Within all the hubbub -increased because

mousetrap issues

were discussed in the middle

but with the wrong focus

, such as Florencia Peña's visit-, a point that remained almost like an apostille on the sidelines is paradigmatic.

It does not have to do strictly with the violation of the quarantine, but it reflects

the concept of the State that part of the ruling caste has

: they are the repeated presence in Olivos of Ariel Zapata, dog trainer and director of Cinotecnia of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security.

Ariel Zapata, the President's dog trainer and director of Cinotecnia of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security.

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“I went to Olivos when I was already appointed in the Ministry because the doctor (Juan Enrique) Romero, who is Dylan's veterinarian, asked me to.

They called me about an important matter, which was the dog fighting in Olivos.

The president's dog, Dylan, fought with his son (Prócer), and at the request of Dr. Romero, I went to attend to that problem, ”Zapata himself told

La Nación

.

Without realizing it, he continued: “Those dog fights motivated me to enter several times,

with an official car of the

Buenos Aires

Ministry of Security

, but I did it without charging for work, because for me it is an honor that the President summoned me for a task like this ”.

In other words, Zapata -and those who called him to Olivos- considered it natural for a public official to

allocate hours of his work and mobilize in an official car

to train the President's dogs, who of course earns enough to pay that service to some private canine trainer. All that Zapata deemed necessary to clarify was ... that he had not charged separately.

His boss,

Sergio Berni

, when talking about the issue, only highlighted that Zapata had already been appointed to his ministry when he visited the presidential office and

that he did not win the position by improving the relationship between Dylan and Prócer

.

The tough minister also saw it natural for his official to take care of the President's dogs.

The same reasoning ends with a president having the newspapers carried on the official plane to El Calafate.

It is just a matter of scale.

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin was accused of spending public money on meals for her family at her official residence.

Instagram photo

At the beginning of June it became known that the Finnish Prime Minister,

Sanna Marin

, had spent 845 euros from the public treasury on breakfasts and meals prepared for her family, on average, for 17 months.

Marin, a Social Democrat and the youngest prime minister in the world to take office at the end of 2019 at the age of 34, rushed to clarify the

"breakfastgate"

, among other things because the scandal was such that it could cost her her job.

He said that when he occupied the government they informed him that he had the right to this tax-free catering during his stay in Kesäranta, the official residence, but that a regulation regulating the use of that residence and the services provided there had been confusing.

Last week it was reported that

Marin had reimbursed the state 10,143.41 euros

for 2020 expenses, while 4,200 euros corresponding to this year would return them at the end of August.

The distance between Buenos Aires and Helsinki is 12,938 kilometers.

In some respects they seem like several light years.

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