“We come to honor the heroes of our history, those who made Argentina a great country, many of whom were hidden and ignored by the last governments.
We celebrate the
heroes of Independence
and we celebrate the
protagonists of our best years
, heroes who gave their lives for the Homeland.
This Administration is not going to promote militancy from the State that generate discord and division among Argentines.”
With her voice-over and the National Anthem in the background, the Secretary General of the Presidency - El Jefe, as she is called by her brother, President Javier Milei -,
Karina Milei
explained in a video the decision to
dismantle the Women's Hall
created by Cristina Kirchner in the Casa Rosada, to make way for the
Hall of Heroes
.
And she gave rise to controversy on all four sides.
Let's go by parts.
First of all, the chosen date: exactly, exactly
March 8
, International Women's Day.
If it wasn't a provocation
, a wet ear, as they say,
is quite similar.
The gesture would not soften the divisions, as is claimed, but rather to generate others: that inveterate Argentine custom of appealing
to the antagonistic “o” instead of the “and”
, which adds and enriches.
Again the them or us.
The pronouns are kept, who they call changes.
Without discussing the Women's Hall in particular, why not create an overcoming body where the contribution to the country of each person can be recognized?
Why not vindicate, as is done, heroes who were ignored before and in the process rescue, or maintain the memory, of women whom History hid or did not celebrate as they would have deserved?
For example, would anyone discuss the contributions of a woman like
Alicia Moreau de Justo
or so many other pioneers, not necessarily included in the famous Salon either?
Why
not improve
, if anything,
instead of canceling
outright?
But the icing on the cake is the painting by Carlos Menem in the Salón de los Próceres.
Sounds like a bad April Fool's Day joke.
But no, it's real.
Which Menem is being honored?
The
one with pizza and champagne
?
The one he boasted about “If he said what he was going to do, who was going to vote for me”? The one
he broke the speed limits
behind the wheel of a Ferrari?
The one who later claimed her saying “
she is mine, mine, mine
”? The one
convicted of paying bonuses
during his two presidencies?
The one convicted of arms smuggling to Ecuador and Croatia and for the sale of the Rural de Palermo property at a low price, ultimately benefiting from the exhausting slowness of the Justice processes?
The person prosecuted for the
blowing up of the Río Tercero military factory
, in Córdoba, where 6,500 tons of these weapons and ammunition had been collected to sell illegally, in which there were five dead and several injured?
The one who said “he who becomes Pope does not become an altar boy again,” but was elected senator after the preventive election for the cause of arms?
The one who promised that in
1995 we were going to go boating
, drink mate and
bathe in the Riachuelo
?
Or that of the high salary and the productive revolution?
If a contemporary president had to be honored, that place would in any case correspond to
Raúl Alfonsín
, the symbol of democratic recovery, the one who was encouraged to create Conadep and carry out a historic process such as the Trial of the Juntas.
A man
who was never suspected of corruption
, as austere on the plain as in power.
Unlike Menem, no one would have been surprised if his portrait was displayed in the Salón de los Próceres.
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