2023-11-11 16:17:46
Javier Milei has tried to stop roaring as a tactical recommendation. The “lion”, as they call the presidential candidate of the far right In Argentina, he now tries to appear dapper, but he stumbles, again and again. He has kept his insults y rants for a better opportunity because, they recommended, it can scare away voters a few days before the second round with the Peronist Sergio Massa. However, his unconscious can do more and sometimes relapses.
The polls are not very reliable, but they establish a reference point according to which the contenders do not gain an advantage. This Sunday’s television debate can define the elections of the November 19th. The economist has reduced his media appearances to avoid skidding or suddenly being a prisoner of anger. But He has not been able to with his genius and recently made a comparison with the union between people of the same sex that caused shivers. “Suppose you want to be with an elephant“Well, if you have the elephant’s consent, your problem and the elephant’s problem.” More defiantly, he denounced “irregularities” in the first round on October 22. Immediately, the extreme right began to talk about fraud on social networks. The anarcho-capitalist was also campaigning in the province of Mendoza. He soon forgot the advice to temper his expressions: “We have come to crush socialism with the forces of heaven.”
The front line of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) has also received a call for moderation. The elected representative and reference in foreign policy of that formation, Diana Mondino, has tried to soften some of the most irritating positions that, according to some analysts, caused the extreme right to be seven points behind Massa in the first turn. Mondino now considers that “there is no way” to break relations with the Vatican, as proposed by Alberto Benegas Lynch, an influential figure in Milei’s environment, convinced that Francisco is a camouflaged communist. And he assures that, if they win the elections, the economist will call the Pontiff and will be “welcome with all his heart” if he decides to visit the country.
Asked about equal marriage, she finds it difficult to contain herself: “Philosophically, as a liberal, I agree with each person’s life plan. If you prefer not to bathe and be full of lice and it’s your choice, that’s it. Then don’t complain if you someone is bothering you.”
The Villarruel factor
Victoria Villarruel, the candidate for vice president, has also not been able to strictly respect the indication to temper speeches. She is the daughter of a colonel specialized in counterinsurgency who did not want to swear the Constitution when democracy was restored, exalted the figure of a repressor during his recent debate with the Peronist candidate for the same position, Agustín Rossi. For Villarruel, the Argentine justice system violates the rights of former Army lieutenant colonel Juan Daniel Amelong, who has received three life prison sentences for crimes against humanity and has stopped enjoying the benefit of house arrest. Florencia Garat, whose father was kidnapped in 1978 and was never heard from again, immediately recalled on the networks: “Amelong and his gang killed my old man and many others“.
Anita Fernández, whose mother Ana Careaga was kidnapped and tortured at the age of 16, and her grandmother, Esther Ballestrino de Careaga, is among the first disappeared and founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, considered that she should bring the word to the public space to refute denialism. She, who was born in Sweden and moved to Argentina after the recovery of democracy, got on the subway to tell more than just her story. “I am a little nervous. I have never done this in my life and I do it because I am very worried. I love this country, I want to live here, I want us all to be able to live without fear of being kidnapped and thrown alive into the sea.” Many of the passengers applauded her. Others remained silent.
The former repressors with Milei
“What happened with Villarruel is not new, what worries me is that it has gone so far.” Careaga’s “fear” is shared by other children of disappeared people or people who testified in the trials against the repressors, who have begun to wildly ask for a vote for Milei. Mario Sandoval, a police prisoner who was part of the concentration camp that operated at the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA), expressed his enthusiasm with “the forces of heaven” which represents LLA. Jorge “Tigre” Acosta, one of the most important officers in the ESMA, sentenced to life, was also enthusiastic about the possibility of a triumph for the extreme right. “The hour of knowledge of the truth is approachingbut not what is said to be the truth that emerged from trials handled by the ‘socialist homeland.'”
Cecilia Pando, wife of a former Army officer and activist against judicial proceedings against those in uniform, urged people to vote for Milei, to whom she left a suggestion if she becomes president. “She is going to have an arduous task,” she said, and listed the problems of inflation, poverty, insecurity and the need to impose an adjustment plan with a strong impact on the population. “As a first measure will have to find a solution for those soldiers, security forces, civilians and police who are illegally detained for the so-called crimes against humanity.” human rights organizations, is at stake. “Why is it urgent? Because probably the Argentina that is coming is going to have to take unpleasant measures that will lead to an increase in social conflict, which perhaps require the participation of security forces and Armed Forces to restore order.”
That, Pando stressed, could not happen if the pending trials and convictions remain. In the 1970s, he said, the military “carried out orders from constitutional governments.” However, “they all ended up in prison.” Therefore, “who guarantees today’s forces that they will not end up the same way?”
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