With political headquarters in Patria Institute and outside of public office, the former vice president Cristina Kirchner met the actress Rita Cortese in its think tank from downtown Buenos Aires and took the opportunity to criticize the management of the national government. “Horrible is an understatement”, he said when talking about libertarian administration at the level of culture. In addition, he threw a dart at the deputy “Bertie” Benegas Lynch for his considerations regarding the compulsory nature of education, although without naming him.
Surprised when she entered the institute she commands as honorary president with a group of collaborators, Cristina Kirchner greeted Cortese effusively. “Hello! What a welcome! Rita Cortese!” He exclaimed and then merged into a hug with the woman, whom he called a “genius” and “one of the best Argentine actresses, by far.”
Afterwards they began a talk and when asked how she was feeling, the former president responded with questions for the management of Javier Miley: “Well, within what can be fine, with a situation like the one the people, the country, are experiencing. It’s tremendous, isn’t it? “Horrible is an understatement.”
The two-time president also analyzed that culture “explains the times” much better than politicians. “From Discepolín, Show, show, back in ’30, ‘where’s a mango, old Gómez?’, remember Waiting for the carriageof Sweet paymentremember everything that the 90s were like, like [Adolfo] Aristarain, The official story”, the opposition leader listed, under the watchful eye of the head of the institute and one of its main supporters, Oscar Parrilli.
Cortese later joined in with that. “Marathon, of [Ricardo] Monti, it was a play where people danced on the ceiling and on the food, nothing more, until they died,” he recalled.
And that was when Cristina Kirchner attacked Benegas Lynch. “Of course… Like the other day I proposed that double surname, ‘children who work’, because in reality the Argentina that they long for is that, it is the Argentina at the end of the 19th century, that of the centenary,” he commented. He did so in relation to the statements of the official national deputy, who slipped over the weekend: “Freedom is also that if you don’t want to send your son to school because you need him in the workshop, you can do it.” Furthermore, in the midst of the cuts that the libertarian administration made to culture, more than anything in the Incaa and the Gaumont Cinema.
“The speech of the right, of the right more…” Cortese tried to say, to which the former vice president pointed out: “More conservative”. Endorsing her, the actress continued: “You see her there with a lightness, plus she is brutal.”
After that they said goodbye. “Well, my dear Rita, see you, my dear. Always, and you know that this is your home”, Cristina Kirchner told him, ready to enter one of her offices.