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2022-05-23T12:29:38.605Z


Buenos Aires, despite the outbreak of renewed Trump species and the ravages of the pandemic, remains one of the most beautiful cities in the world


The pandemic interrupted transatlantic trips that had been frequent for me.

But they invited me to the Buenos Aires Book Fair and I didn't hesitate.

I had forgotten the check-in queues, the security check-ins, the exorbitant price of a bottle of water... There are also novel behaviors: a woman greets the flight attendant "how nice to travel again!".

The fair in Buenos Aires began with a speech by Saccomanno critical of the publishing sector.

A tribute to Almudena Grandes was held in a room for 80 people.

The

booktuber phenomenon

It had a space for a thousand.

Javier Milei, leader of La Libertad Avanza, who raffles his salary as a deputy, also occupied it, shouting “freedom, damn it!”

200,000 pesos.

There are those who call it extreme right-wing;

others include it in the category of the libertarian right.

In Spain there are many.

He says that he is “anarcho-capitalist” or “liberal libertarian”.

Milei hit it at the fair while the piquetero movement paralyzed the center of Buenos Aires to request assistance measures from the Fernández Government, and a taxi driver told us that the aid engulfs people who do not want to work.

those who

work

from sunup to sundown, like him, they feel harmed and see in Milei one of those honest and original guys who come to correct the ways of a policy —of the right or left— always corrupt.

The taxi driver forgets that “freedom, damn it” is only freedom for those who can afford it and choose the surgical team that will transplant the gold-covered kidney removed from a poor child.

It is not a freedom based on social justice.

It's a fucking "freedom, damn it."

Freedom of texture similar to that used by Vargas Llosa: "Between the clown of Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva, I prefer the first."

He is left with the "little cold", the mass graves, the devastation of the Amazon, the slavery that prevails in certain parts of Brazil, the exile of Marcia Tiburi who wrote

How to converse with a fascist

and had to run away.

The freedom of Tiburi would not be a "freedom, damn it", but a freedom of lucid conscience to understand that without equality and human rights there is no freedom that deserves that name.

Milei raffles off his salary and, in that cocky pose, stands above it pretending to go next door: he gives alms, imposes an irreverence that underlines the uses and customs of a Menem movement that he admires, discredits honest political practices that do not come from powerful classes that they can afford to give away a salary, aristocratizes power, blocks access to institutional representation of the non-dominant classes, dynamite coexistence and democracy, demagogically fuels bonfires of a middle class, victim of brutal inflation, who wants to feel like a winner not only in The soccer field.

At least in Argentina energy is subsidized.

Neoliberalism—also libertarian—works the same all over the world: giving something for free is a waste because people don't value what they don't pay for.

I remember the deaths from toxic braziers and how foolish they are, according to the president of Iberdrola, those who pay the regulated rate.

For the rest, Buenos Aires, despite the outbreak of renewed Trumpist species and the ravages of the pandemic —in Florida there are almost only little trees left that offer “change, change”—, it continues to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

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Source: elparis

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