Like the Sun, even if we don't see her,
Cristina is always there.
And it usually manifests itself in very different ways.
And even surprising.
Among the news she produced this week was her sworn statement closing her as vice president.
Once again, the distance between the inside reality of the “successful lawyer” that she never practiced and the story from her mouth to the outside was evident.
Among the data that emerge from the presentation, where he states a total assets close to $250 million, there appear
investments that are a priori at odds with the Kirchnerist nac&pop discourse:
in October of last year, the month of the presidential elections whose first round would be won by Sergio Massa, Cristina Kirchner invested in shares of
Coca Cola, Microsoft, Apple,
Visa, Vista Energy, Berkshire Hathaway, Donat Investments and the Nasdaq index,
for a total of US$159,169.
Gone are those days of 2011 in which, like an echo of former minister Lorenzo Sigaut and his “He who bets on the dollar loses,”
the then president urged not to buy greenbacks, emphasizing: “
Argentines
must be convinced not to buy greenbacks.”
"bet on the dollar
but on companies based in the country."
Nobility obliges, it must be recognized that Cristina also opted for national capital: among the declared investments are Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp, dedicated to agriculture (the fight with the countryside is also behind us) and, oh surprise, Mercado Libre.
In the company of
Marcos Galperín, so often reviled by Kirchnerism,
the then vice president bought 1,667 shares, at a value of $23,858 each, making a total of $39,771,286, about
US$45,000.
They say well that capital has no ideology.
The idea was rounded off by Galperin himself when he found out: “With theirs they are capitalists.
“Socialism is always with your uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu contribute,” he wrote on X (ex Twitter).
With theirs they are capitalists.
Socialism is always with “youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup contribute.
— Marcos Galperin (@marcos_galperin) February 7, 2024
After all, it is the same Cristina who toured the world and also the most pedestrian local courts with
Louis Vuitton and Dior purses,
among others, hanging from her arm and even exhibited a beautiful
LV belt, listed at US$ 710 (about $ 812,000 to today's blue dollar)
, in the return to in-person sessions in the Senate, which he then presided over, in October 2021. To be fair, in some aspects he has not lacked coherence.
Through the mouth of the
ultra K journalist Roberto Navarro,
Cristina's opinions about the current President were known.
“Cristina is not so pessimistic about how Milei is going to do,”
said the director of El Destape, who added that in economic matters the former vice president “believes that inflation is going to go down little by little” and that
Milei “is today the politician who is doing things best
in terms of political technique, because he is the one with the most courage, because he is Kirchnerist in his way of acting” since “he always doubles down.
He never goes back.”
Sincere praise or bear hug?
As Ignacio Ortelli wrote this Sunday in
Clarín
, Milei rejected those praises, saying that what Cristina is looking for is
to torpedo the merger with the PRO
that the President has been announcing these days.
The panorama in Argentina gives everything: after rumors about an agreement between La Libertad Avanza and the K, it could also be thought that if the LLA-PRO approach materializes and the management of this merged government fails, the beneficiary would be Kirchnerism, become the strongest opposition.
In one of these Cristina remembers Napoléon: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”