Mauricio Macri’s defense equated the violent marginals linked to the PRO who tried to assassinate Cristina Kirchner, with the relatives of the victims of the ARA San Juan. “If they had spied on them like we spied on the families of the sailors”, the assassination attempt would have been avoided. It wasn’t those exact words, but it was the gist of the argument. One year after the attack, the country that cradled this outbreak of political violence has Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei as presidential candidates with equally violent speeches as those who sponsored the failed shot to the head of the former president.
«Dynamit», «disappear», «finish», «destroy» are the favorite verbs of these two presidential candidates with a chance of winning. Milei’s symbol image is her angry face with a chainsaw in her hands. The movie is horror. They know that no one will let themselves be devastated by the chainsaw, no one will do it without resisting. Violent speeches that foster a violent country.
Judge Julián Ercolini, involved in the creation of false evidence to cover up the trip that he and other judges made to Lago Escondido invited by Clarionignored two forensic expert reports carried out at the time of the event and with the body of Alberto Nisman and validated another one that was carried out two years later and with photographs, because it was the only one that served them to turn the prosecutor’s suicide into a false crime.
The hypocrisy and lies of those mobilizations against this false crime were exposed with the dismissive attitude of those same sectors in the face of the assassination attempt on the vice president and former president. Just as before they turned a suicide into a murder, now they turn an attempted political assassination into the innocuous act of crazy people on the loose. The insulting argument of Macri’s defense was presented in the case for espionage against the relatives of the crew members of the wrecked submarine. The judge dismissed it because, as he concluded, the peaceful relatives were spied on to «preserve the safety» of Macri, who had never been threatened by them.
Bullrich and Milei come together with the animal tension of the corporate media in a cosmogony of violence. The country from which he left in December 1983 was called Violencia. And the one these candidates want has the mark of dictatorships even though he disguises himself as a democrat. It is a brand with thousands of dead and missing and wounds that are still open.
Of the three candidates with a chance of winning, the only one who does not promise a violent country is Sergio Massa. Bullrich with his exaltation of the heavy hand and justice by one’s own hand, and Milei with her personal violence, on the verge of exploding, do not conceive of violence as a problem to be solved or overcome, but rather as the glue that binds and sustains the top of the order that they intend to establish. His adjustment proposals come hand in hand with repression. They propose to disrupt from Airlines to state pensions and compete in which will make the most destructive adjustment. And the rule is: the more adjustment, the more repression.
There is no moderation in either of the two candidates. Bullrich says that «there is no longer room for moderate or progressive changes» and Milei boasts that the adjustment she will make «will go deeper than what the IMF is asking for.» The abrupt freezing of the economy that these measures will cause will imply a drop in consumption and the closure of factories. He who earns little will stop earning it. The trolls will say that this enumeration is terrorist. But it is not what their adversaries say to terrify, but what they themselves publicly promise. And it is a troll’s lie to promise that these measures will improve people’s lives.
With Bullrich and Milei, the country drifts in a numb, narcotic inertia, towards a spiral of violence and authoritarianism. Some calm down, they think that something like this cannot happen because they will not have Congress in their favor or because it is pure electoral action. To believe that the two candidates who are fighting for the podium of the ultra-conservative right will not do what they promise is to open the door for them. To close your eyes is to open the door to the nefarious country of the magazine People with its cloying notes to the genocidal.
journalists from People they presented the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla as a loving family head and Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri as a majestic general. It was the world that many wanted to see to cover up reality, where Videla and Galtieri were executioners with their chainsaws full of Argentine blood.
Videla and Galtieri’s friends come on the lists of Bullrich and Milei. It is much more than an election between Peronists and anti-Peronists. The two right-wing candidates «are crazier than Bolsonaro,» Lula concluded when she translated the speeches of these characters for him. It is a crossroads. The attack on Cristina Kirchner is part of that universe. Sectors of radicalism, such as Ricardo Alfonsin called Massa to vote and Freddy Storani called Leandro Santoro to vote in CABA. The risk situation is real, it is not an exaggeration.
The result of the PASO created confusion in all the forces that participated in the election. The only one who came out with the toe caps was Milei. Bullrich saw that he lost the cake that he was already eating. And Massa had to deal at the Monetary Fund with a technical staff that kicked against him. The team that gave Macri the most absurd loan because it was unpayable, was replaced by another that plays in the same way. After a hard fight, the Fund lowered its maximum condition of a devaluation of one hundred percent, to 22 percent. A Pyrrhic victory: he achieved an important concession, but one that rebounded in prices and brought monthly inflation to double digits.
If the paralysis in Unión por la Patria was notorious after the result of the PASO, the devaluation accentuated the immobility. In all that time there were voices within the force that criticized the solitude in which Massa was. There was criticism of the governors, unionism and political groups. The reviews were true. It was difficult to military a candidate in that devaluation.
The distributive measures that Massa announced later changed the climate. At least for the militancy and leaders of Union for the Homeland. The social movements announced acts by district, doorbells and door-to-door visits in the neighborhoods, the unions make their own campaign, just like the governors and mayors. The popular machinery of Unión por la Patria was set in motion. Pushed by the scary scenario proposed by Milei and Bullrich, the internal debate, the questions of the candidates and the fights were relegated.
The act on Sunday in Parque Rivadavia, where the majority of young people participated, was a strong signal. A first signal that did not come from organized groups, but from “worried or hopeless” neighbors. Ofelia Fernandez, Maria Bielli and Lucía Cámpora were the speakers. The act was massive. A crowd of young people who will vote for the first time or those who voted only in the previous one, who listened in silence and attentively.
The speakers called for a military against Milei and Bullrich, the right-wing candidates. Lucia Campora indicated that those who were best positioned for that were those of Unión por la Patria. AND Ofelia Fernandez He called on them not to go on the defensive, but on the offensive, without fear, to demand a better country and not to sign a blank check and mark the field for the candidates.