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Alberto, the imaginary country and 20 million Argentines without electricity

2023-03-01T23:28:38.048Z


The President's last speech before Congress oscillated between Cristina's slight and the figures of an invisible prosperity.


President Alberto Fernández was nearing the end of his speech when he pronounced the phrase that could be used to understand how he perceives certain things:

"With political noise, people lose

," he said, amid the sound noise of the legislators and the

visual noise

that made him Cristina Kirchner next door, without the need to say a word.

It was the final speech before Congress by a president

in his bubble,

at the head of a government that was born, precisely, with the political noise that, according to the presidential vision,

hurts the people.

This turmoil reached such a point that neither Deputy Máximo Kirchner nor Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof went to Congress, who later

had to suspend his own speech due to the massive blackout.

A while before, Cristina had received Alberto with icy courtesy.

She walked in front of the President until the minute books were signed, she energetically rejected his gesture of serving her water before starting and stood looking the other way as soon as Alberto finished.

Right there the national chain was cut.

As often happens when blindly trusting the figures of others, the President painted a country that

only exists on his papers

.

He began by cutting himself off because in his administration he was touched by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine and went on to say that he was not afraid to speak up front about

"poverty, insecurity, inflation and low income."

But it is clear that

this was left for another occasion,

because he began to cite economic growth figures that described

an invisible prosperity.

Cristina continued with a grim gesture every time the President overacted his solidarity in the face of the alleged judicial persecution of her,

convicted of corruption.

The effort for the chapter

"now I look good with Cristina"

was such that Alberto

affirmed falsehoods:

that Cristina was sentenced

"without complying with the minimum forms of due process"

and that the sentence only sought

"political disqualification"

.

Cristina was sentenced in an oral trial and with her defense making full use of her right to try to refute evidence that was

irrefutable

for the court .

And

she could be a candidate if she wanted to

.

Saying that she is disqualified from participating in the elections is

as false as saying that she is in prison.

In those quotas of innocent rebellion between the lines with which the President plays to be autonomous, Alberto never uttered the word

"outlawed"

-if you are a Kirchnerist, that is what you have to say when referring to Cristina-, and affirmed that, At the end of his term,

"no one will be able to attribute to me a fact by which I have enriched myself."

He showed the noose at the hanged man's house

.

She made a “what is this man talking about”

pout

when he said that “animals can't be locked up to entertain human beings”;

and then she made a particular expression when Alberto mentioned "the enormous honor that the Argentines have given me to preside over the destinies of the country."

It could be interpreted as a gesture of

"you owe the honor to me".

Gestural counterpoint of a government that started and ends

party

.

The bubble has more serious connotations when it leaves the comedy of intercasa to

confront with the real world

.

The President affirmed that "the fight against organized crime is a priority for the national government", but if there is an emblem of organized crime

that is drug trafficking

and the Minister of Security has just said that crimes in Rosario

are a police problem santafesina

.

So?

Possibly Alberto Fernández did not even know that, while he was speaking, it was exactly one month since the murder of a young street artist in Rosario who was used as a

messenger corpse

.

They killed him

for nothing,

only for the gang that murdered him to put a piece of paper in his pocket with a threat to another gang that the victim had nothing to do with either.

A month later,

there are no arrests or suspects

for that heinous crime.

That real country - absent in the presidential speech - only fits the mask of tragedy.

The greatest irony occurred three hours after Alberto left the country triumphantly from his fictitious lines towards the esplanade of Entre Ríos street.

When the thermometers marked 36 degrees of thermal,

20 million Argentines were left without electricity.

Some burned pastures in the middle of the field, between General Rodríguez and Campana, activated the alerts that disconnected the Atucha plant for a few hours.

Alberto had said a while before, in Congress, that Argentina

"is the energy that the world is needing"

.

He later tweeted:

"Today we live substantially better

. "

It was

at 5:34 p.m., with half the country in the dark

.

The precarious Argentina does not forgive a

look too

Mass blackout: in the City there were people trapped in elevators and evacuated subway cars

look too

In the midst of the massive power outage, Alberto Fernández tweeted his speech with an unusual phrase: "Argentina is a great country"

Source: clarin

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