Let's start bringing peace of mind to the boys of the dealership where Alberto worked when in 2019 he was appointed candidate and began that
miraculous journey that took him from 08 to the First Magistracy
(
"From 08 to the First Magistracy
" is a good title for his autobiography , we give it to you).
We know how much you miss him and how anxious you must be, but please be patient.
Less to go.
One more effort and you will have it back among you, surrounded by used and opportunities.
Fight and come back.
With that said, let's get to the important stuff.
Contrary to what many people believe, having only 6.6% monthly inflation in a country that has a lawyer as finance minister, instead of having a proper economist, is a miracle.
Given the situation, everything could be worse.
It is as if Scaloni, instead of putting Romero and Otamendi as center backs,
had put Máximo chasing Mbappé and Kicillof clearing Giroud's crosses with his head.
That way we earned the same, but it was not the most recommended.
If they are not good for the positions they occupy now
,
much less would they have served as fullbacks.
Therefore, let us value the effort that Sergio Massa is making playing in a position for which he is neither prepared nor has the slightest idea, as we can see every day in his pocket.
However, the guy resists, with everyone's support, despite the firm suspicion that in a few more months we are going to miss today's 102% annual rate.
After all,
now that we have 6.6% of Massa we realize how good we were when we were bad with 3% of Guzmán
.
With this simple reflection we begin season No. 16 of Sunday columns knowing that an unbearable year awaits us that will have to be cool and
try to look at reality from another angle.
An oblique look at the problems serves to neutralize those who live complaining about the country without appreciating that, despite the crisis,
there are sectors that do not stop growing.
For example, drug trafficking.
In 2003, when Néstor arrived and founded democracy, Argentina was a transit country where, if a smoker was in need, at most he could get some Paraguayan faso.
Twenty years later, thanks to Kirchnerism, we have enough cocaine, base paste, ecstasy, methamphetamine and synthetic drugs
to guarantee the table for Argentines and afford us the luxury of exporting the surplus
.
In fact, I don't know what the popular government is waiting for to put
taxes on this prosperous activity
and start redistributing so much wealth.
It is a pity that Kirchnerism did not act with the same conviction in the area of energy.
If the government had given the same wave to the energy issue that it gave to the drug issue, we
would not be celebrating 20 uninterrupted years of blackouts.
Perhaps that is why the time has come to update some old Peronist apothegms.
For example, the famous phrase
"where there is a need there is a right"
, seeing the results of Cristina's tariff policy, we could now replace it with
"where there is a need there is a power outage"
.
It sounds more appropriate.
In any case, the important thing is that in 2023 we will be dedicated to electing the genius who will govern us for the next few years.
Luckily there are candidates for all tastes.
They are all, except Cristina who is banned.
Like José López, poor.
In reality, Ella is not banned but rather
perceives herself to be banned.
And she is also a weak self-perception.
It would be enough for them to take
a survey that gives them chances of winning so that their self-perception ends in a minute.
The problem is that this survey does not appear.
Kirchnerism is desperate because she is the only one that attracts votes.
They have Máximo, who is also a Kirchner, but it is clear that they do not want to risk it.
They will be saving it for the Libertadores
or they do not have faith in him or something strange is happening with this great statesman.
Hence, La Cámpora has launched an
operative outcry
, something like a popular movement for Cristina to reach La Rosada under the famous slogan "Fight and Come Back".
The problem is that this current militancy does not have the strength of that militancy that invented the true "Fight and Come Back."
If
you remove the charge, the driver and reserved expenses from these people from La Cámpora, they come out with a white flag, turn themselves in with their hands up and confess everything
.
They have been breaking their balls with the revolution for 20 years and they still haven't even gotten the boots.
This new "Fight and Come Back" is very rare because to return first he would have to leave
.
And we all know that She never left.
She is.
She is the Vice President of a government that did exactly everything she ordered, including slashing everyone she wanted to slash, naming everyone she wanted to name, managing all the state funds, she was responsible for blocking Pfizer, bringing Sputnik She supported the agreements with the bondholders and the IMF and all those things that she herself criticizes from her own government
as if it were not hers.
Brilliant.
With Cristina ruled out, Máximo reserved for the coronation and with Massa doing the CBC of Economy, the Frente de Todos does not have many candidates left.
There's Scioli, who always garpa (said this in a good way) or a boy named Wado De Pedro who is already very popular at the Instituto Patria and in two or three surrounding blocks.
In the rest of the country, neither the juna nor the parrot.
Hence, the best chances are in the opposition, a wide range that includes the left, Milei and the great favorite: Together for Change.
In the case of the left, hopefully the candidate will be Nico Del Caño again for the third time in a row (2015/2019/2023).
Winning will never win, but one day they will give him the Martín Fierro Award for
Best Work in Presidential Debates.
Milei's is weirder.
Perhaps in the privacy of her house she is a dulce de leche, but on television she is the
entire Manson Clan in one person
.
She's going to have to calm down, show that she's a supporter of the Constitution and then we'll see.
Obviously, the favorite is Together for Change and if we talk about this coalition we have to start with Macri.
Let's say it very clearly:
hopefully the Cat makes up his mind and becomes president again.
Mouth needs it.
Meanwhile, for the position in La Rosada, Bullrich and Larreta took the lead, followed by Morales and Manes.
God will say.
Bullrich will be a great candidate but we have no idea who makes up her teams and who are the 500 officials who will accompany her from day one.
For now,
it's her alone with the dorima.
498 more ñatos to go.
On the other hand, Larreta has his entire team ready, a lot of management experience and an anti-crack speech.
The only precaution we should take, if we were to win, is to ask him every afternoon, when he leaves La Rosada, to open his
bag so that they can check it, pass the backpack through the scanner, extend his arms and legs and allow himself to be felt
.
So we all stay calm.
If we had done the same with Néstor from the first day, we would have saved ourselves all the troubles of the last ten years, including the request for impeachment to the Court.
Finally, there are Morales and Manes who, for now,
are a rhyming duo
.
Like Gath and Chavez, Gelly and Obes, López and Planes, Morales and Manes.
Radical curiosities.
One more candidate, one less candidate, that is the outlook for the year that is starting.
You will say dear reader, and the "president" has no future?
Of course.
As we said at the beginning,
the dealership is waiting for you with open arms.
Very soon Alberto will be selling unique opportunities again and he will surely dedicate his life to telling stories, around the coffee machine or the photocopier, about his unusual time at La Rosada, exaggerating data, inventing situations, fabulating dialogues and modeling at will a story whose moral is already forceful and reliable:
in Argentina,
any gil can become president
.
So one should not lose hope either.
It's a pleasure to be back.
The season started.