It was a sudden appearance of the repugnant, as if corruption had incarnated in the immense rodent that sprouted from the sewers to the TV cameras.
The head of the city's government dismantled, microphone in hand, one more space of illegalities and
suddenly the screams, the jumps and the atavistic aversion to that symbol of filth and pestilence reflected the immense metaphorical value of the moment.
A couple of kicks shook the rat and it ended up in the jaws of a dog or two.
All in an astonishing moment, after the president described Congress as a “Nest of Rats,” as if helping to enhance the expectation of his speech last night.
The rat emerged at a time when former president Alberto Fernández stumbled upon the journalistic X-ray revealed by
Clarín
, a lapidary plot of scams, a tangle of insurance brokers, and well-disguised thefts that he could not ignore, because he would be directly involved. .
Atrocious complicities and negotiations that were discussed in the very same Olivos estate came to light
while society remained locked down due to the pandemic according to the order of Fernandez himself.
Order for the rest and not for himself.
He transgressed it according to his real desire, or rather, according to his created interests.
The rats come to the surface.
And the thieves loot big.
The last political capital of the former president vanishes:
he proudly stated, with camouflaged pride in himself, that he was not corrupt.
Justice will now decide if it was or if it was not.
But the rat that appeared in Retiro symbolizes a
multiplicity of joint pests.
Ernesto Sabato wrote in his dark “Report on the Blind,” which is actually a report for the blind:
“Abominable sewers of Buenos Aires!
Lower and horrendous world, homeland of filth!
I imagined upstairs, in brilliant salons, beautiful and delicate women, correct and thoughtful bank managers... While down there, in an obscene and pestilent tumult, the menstruations of those romantic loved ones ran mixed, the excrements of the vaporous young women dressed in gauze. , the condoms used by correct managers, the destroyed fetuses from thousands of abortions, the remains of food from millions of homes and restaurants, the immense, innumerable garbage of Buenos Aires…”
It is not just about the inevitable waste of bodies and the dual becoming, between public elegance and the inevitable garbage dump that always drains life itself.
It is also the moral garbage, the innumerable garbage that promotes and multiplies the life of rats.
The rat is associated with the plague.
And the plague can no longer hide.
The literature on the matter is copious, according to Albert Camus, unavoidable;
“the plague feeds on indifference, hopelessness and lack of solidarity.”
Rats come to the surface when the garbage piles up due to the apathy of those who observe how it accumulates.
And in this way it contaminates everyone.
Argentina as a poisoned “Ratatouille”.
Sewage decay built on decades of impunity.
Something is changing?
The justice system reviewed previous rulings regarding Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and she now faces the real possibility of being prosecuted as the head of an illicit association.
The irregular parade of rats began too long ago, although before some of them were mostly praised and now they are rather refuted and eventually prosecuted.
Sometimes, however,
it is not easy to distinguish rats from those who are not.
He who is free of rodents, let him cast the first stone.
The sociocultural infection is deep and widespread.
It is perceived in all areas.
In football with scandalous arrangements to favor sportingly minor clubs but with greater possibilities concocted by mafia bosses.
It is confirmed in mummified unions in the eternalized figures of millionaire leaderships.
It is experienced as a wound in the contempt for education by unions that prefer to preserve their political and militant immunity and stop teaching at will.
It is evident in some social organizations where their chiefs take money in abundance to transfer it to themselves.
The infection reaches a very dangerous climax with drug trafficking embedded in the midst of poverty, recruiting “little soldiers” even if they die quickly on the condition that they raise something for the rats hungry for dirty money.
The Retiro rat will never know how many symbols he condensed into his at once stellar and abject appearance.
Why wouldn't it break in if the filth is so extreme and widespread?
It is true that rats are the first to abandon ships when they are going to shipwreck.
Argentina is a strange place in the world where the rats do not leave even though we shipwreck so many times.
That perseverance, that pestilence, those garbage dumps, never stop reproducing.
Although it is time to abolish them, to rinse ourselves from so many sewers flowing into the light of day.
Either the garbage is cleaned up, or the rats win.