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No. In Crazy February
I visited dear friends from the small homeland who, in other times, were paintings
with bright ideas and ardent political will. However, only one agreed to comment on his state of mind. Although he set conditions: “Look… let’s start with the important thing: did you bring the Herradura I asked for?”
Two. Chin-chin. It’s great… for Mexico and for AMLO!
he exclaimed. And taking a newspaper after downing his third tequila, he began to read the paragraph chosen by Javier Milei, in his first message to the nation: “…smooth out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on those tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke…”. Then, he inferred: “Let’s see… you who live in a rational country… what the hell do we do with this? Study mass psychology or biblical cryptography?”
Three. I put it in reverse. In mid-2015, after 12 years of relative stability and optimism, I asked a senior official at the Casa Rosada: Is there a plan B?
Answer: Negative. The candidate is Daniel Scioli, chosen by Cristina
Weeks later, with a difference of less than three points, the Argentine-Calabrian mobster Mauricio Macri defeated Scioli at the polls.
Four. Macri executed a very strong adjustment plan, and at the end of his term, with the help of Donald Trump, he managed to get the IMF to lend him 50 billion dollars. The largest (and illegal) loan ever granted to an insolvent country. The new adjustment was devastating. Then, Cristina chose the lackey Alberto Fernández (AF) as her candidate, preventing the mobster’s re-election (2019).
Five. Meanwhile, governments progress of the subregion were regressing. In Brazil, the legalistic dismissal of President Dilma Rousseff (2016), a requirement to imprison Lula and pave the way for Jair Bolsonaro; in Ecuador, Lenin Moreno’s betrayal of the Citizen revolution
initiated by Rafael Correa (2017); in Venezuela, self-designation of Juan Guaidó as interim president
and in Bolivia coup against Evo Morales (2019).
Six. Facts that preceded those of the 20/23 four-year period, together with others that until today, except in Mexico, have the people of reason
more lost than a Turk in the fog: 1) massive psycho-emotional havoc due to Covid restrictions; 2) total confusion in the weak goal of politicians and political scientists, digitally beaten by ultra-montane and conspiracy theorists, and 3) exponential growth of antisocial and social networks, which in children, adolescents and young people under 30 chaotically disrupted their ways of perceiving the world.
Seven. From this mud emerged (in Argentina and other latitudes) the clay libertarian
Milei. An aggressive, vociferous, uneducated, confused character, with no political career, no ideology, no party, no family and a “doctor” honoris causa” from a university duckling from Buenos Aires. The people of reason
they said (we said): he’s crazy
But few noticed the particular attention that the concentrated financial and media power began to lavish on him.
Eight. Analogies are of little use in illustrating historical phenomena that bear similarity. However, in front of Milei it was unavoidable to remember the house painter who at the end of the First World War (I-GM) was also described as a crazy
(addendum: with the exception of Franz Kafka). In any case, the psychological examination that the justice system carried out on Milei in 2018 after verbally assaulting a journalist, It is kept under seven keys
according to lawyer and criminal consultant José Manuel Ubeira.
Nine. I would like to now dwell on something that has been little investigated. I am referring to the so-called Spanish flu
one of the most devastating influenza epidemics in human history (1918-19). In just over a year, 20 to 40 million deaths occurred, a figure proportionally higher than the 15/24 million of WWI. And onlinerevolution in Russia, counterrevolution in Germany, Lenin’s Third Communist International, the Combat Fascists Mussolini’s, and the German Workers’ Party that preceded Hitler’s National Socialist Party (1919).
Ten. What was the psychological and emotional impact of such scourges on European youth? There was no in-depth research, as there is today. For example, the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report 2023-24 (reviewed by Laura Poy Solano in The Day (3/14/24).
Eleven. The report warned that more than 3 billion people on the planet say their level of stress and worry has increased following the pandemic, adding that nine out of 10 people say they maintain unwavering support for democracy, but that the number of those who support political leaders who undermine it continues to grow.
Twelve. By the Argentine essayist Marcelo Figueras: The boys and girls who grew up in Argentina from 2016 onwards are being sent to the front of the battle of life, poorly equipped, without leadership, to face an infinitely superior enemy, who does not even need to engage in hand-to-hand combat because he has mined the terrain, and who also expects them to kill each other. And we, the adults, have consented to send them to that war, with a shameful silence.
(portal The rocket to the moonBuenos Aires, 7/14/24).
