Jasmine Bullorini
08/28/2021 18:48
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/28/2021 7:36 PM
"Prejudices exist, but older people are in those who believe that
I cannot enter here
. The people of labor have no problem with me, the jets of politics do," Javier Milei assures
Clarín
, after closing his first tour of the Villa 31 bis of Retiro.
With a black leather jacket and his characteristic look - combed, as he says, by "the invisible hand" of the wind, alluding to Adam Smith - the candidate for deputy for the front La Libertad Avanza
made his way for almost an hour by the corridors of the neighborhood between greetings
(from neighbors and police) and looks of ignorance.
He received no insults or uncomfortable comments.
Tour of Javier Milei's Villa 31.
Photos Emmanuel Fernández.
He walked accompanied by his team and the merchant and stock market operator, Héctor Espinoza, who opened a bar at the entrance of the Villa called "Liberty 31".
Although he is not a neighbor of the neighborhood, he assures that he chose the place for its
"capitalist DNA".
"Here everything is trading," he says, pointing to the fair, "and for me it is the maxim for economic growth and anyone can do it, no further preparation is necessary," he assures while the libertarian anthem plays through the speakers of his premises: "
I am not a lukewarm, not left-handed either, I'm liberal, liberal liberal
"to the rhythm of the song" Bella Ciao ", by the Italian partisans who fought against the Germans during the Second World War.
Milei came to the tour in the middle of the controversy that unleashed the outburst that she starred in when she branded the head of the Buenos Aires government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta as
"crawled worm", "shitty lefty"
and threaten to
"crush you, even in wheelchairs."
"You have to understand the principle of action and reaction. If he pursues me with different mechanisms and sets up operations to get me out of the way, I'm going to answer.
They all focus on what I answered and not on the traps
and ambushes that he designs for let them do me, "he explained in dialogue with
Clarín.
─Don't you think the tone was too violent?
─Much more violent was he who locked us up and sent a lot of companies into bankruptcy, the economic disaster that his policies generated in the City.
And I am going to continue to denounce the perverseness of politics before my followers.
Milei touring the village 31. Photo Emmanuel Fernández
Milei got angry with a TN program because she assures that she had agreed to a "one-on-one" interview and that when she arrived at the studio she was surprised that they had summoned other
opposition candidates "to attack her
.
"
He says that "the political caste" and the media want to brand him "crazy" to "maintain the status quo" that he is going to "break."
In the previous one to the closing of lists, the economist refused to be part of an intern within Juntos por el Cambio.
He never came, he assures, to meet with people from Larreta
.
In the main opposition coalition, they closely observe the damage capacity that the libertarian front can exert at the polls.
During the tour, a delegate from the neighborhood asked him about the social plans.
"
It is not necessary to remove the social plans
. In a growth process it is the people who abandon them because they get a better job and a better salary," he replied.
─So the State is needed?
─Today there is a State that is a monster, we must go towards
a minimum one
.
But you can't happen to that from one day to the next.
At the door of the "Rubén Orlando" hairdresser they have a photo of his face.
Photos Emmanuel Fernández.
In two stores, the hair salon of former celebrity stylist Rubén Orlando, and in a copy shop, photos of him were taped to the windows.
"Did you hit it because you knew it was coming?"
Clarín
consulted
Nelly at the photocopier.
"No, I always have it. I'm a fan. I like his way of speaking, what he says about the economy, how he explains, it is not a blackmail, I hope it goes well," he says.
In the hairdresser they claim that there were clients who asked to get
"the Milei cut".
"I've lived here for decades. I'm an anti-Peronist and I follow Milei on Facebook," says José, who stopped to greet the economist.
"I already have my house outside the town but I still have the business here because with this economic situation and all the taxes it is very difficult, but I have already patented my clothing brand," says Tarcilai Flores, another merchant who asked him for a
selfie
to the economist.
"I never would have guessed I was going to see this," one campaign team member tells another.
"
I'm going back,
" Milei confided.