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Political and Economic Lessons for Argentina

Analysis of the political situation in Argentina after the elections. The rise of LLA's influence, economic reforms, the fight against corruption and drug cartels. A look at the country's future and its place in the world.


Political and Economic Lessons for Argentina

For them, in revenge for having defeated the hordes that sought to turn Argentina into a Cuba of the south, it seems that there is no consideration or legal limit, with preventive prisons reaching up to 16 years, in a true death sentence in advance. The President, despite having his 'Brancaccio Army' validated by the votes, should purge his own political entourage, as LLA (La Libertad Avanza) has many questionable figures within it. The first already ordered the sinking of 14 boats carrying drugs; the second managed to pacify El Salvador after decades of insecurity and savagery, applying maximum rigor; and Cláudio Castro did not hesitate to engage in a frontal combat against Comando Vermelho. After the triumph of LLA on Sunday, that indicator dropped to almost 600, so it is logical to deduce that if Fuerza Patria had won, it would have risen to 2000, and on Monday we would have woken up with soaring inflation. Society has shown that it has learned a lot regarding the responsible management of public affairs, and it also chose which side of the world it prefers to be on. While many look the other way, Trump, Nayib Bukele, and the Governor of Rio de Janeiro have decided to take the bull by the horns. By Enrique Guillermo Avogadro 'Only the nations that know how to learn, adapt, and redefine their vision of the world will inherit the future.' Eric Hoffer The country risk, which measures the difference between the interest rate a country must pay to access voluntary credit markets and the rate applied to the United States, on the previous Friday, with the currency in the air, reached almost 1300 (13 percentage points more) for Argentina. And the same thing happened with the undeniable contributions to the positive result made by those who still obey Cristina Fernández. In addition to the debut of the single ballot as an effective antidote to fraud, the fear of a return to the recent and tragic past – which provided an enormous flow of votes to the ruling party – had a key date: September 7. The Supreme Court that week dashed their hopes of delaying the oral trial of the 'Notebooks case', which will begin next Thursday, with herself and dozens of accomplices in that painful showcase for a long time and which augurs serious convictions due to the tons of evidence gathered by Prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, which include the confessions of so many 'repentant' officials and businessmen. Meanwhile, in the light of what happened in France with former President Nicolas Sarkozy, citizens are demanding in no uncertain terms that the court that convicted her in the 'Roads case' revoke the outrageous conditions of her house arrest, which should shame that same Federal Justice. In parallel and in line with the just – although sadly late – ruling of the Court in the 'Castillo' case, I also await the widespread reaction of those same weathervanes to the cowardly killer judges, who, based on fabricated cases (like the remembered Stalinist trials) by militant prosecutors and paid but indemnified witnesses, keep thousands of elderly people in prison for alleged acts committed 50 years ago. On October 17, the squalor of the Peronist acts made this shipwreck predictable, which will surely bring dire internal consequences for the 'marshal' of so many defeats and her entourage from La Cámpora. She needed a government collapse, because she knows how much the winds coming from the Casa Rosada influence the sensitive weathervanes that crown the building of Comodoro Py, headquarters of the Federal Justice that has her against the ropes. Some of us believed in a better performance by LLA, but no one could have foreseen the magnitude of it; it is true that it received some timely help from both the US and the pero-kirchnerismo, but it was unthinkable that it could achieve such a feat, especially in the crucial Province of Buenos Aires. Donald Trump and Scott Bessent, using us to demonstrate which are the virtuous economic recipes in the world, gave us a huge hand just when all the destituting tribes were on the verge of achieving their purpose, aided by incomprehensible errors of the government. Despite appeals to a hypocritical nationalism with which they tried to recreate the climate prior to the 1946 elections ('Braden or Perón'), the tangible and decisive support of the 'dollar owners' was clearly definitive. When Axel Kicilloff, celebrating the success of the election split he had decided on, appeared on stage accompanied by the worst of the 'ghost train' – 'Greasy' Sergio Massa, Máximo Kirchner, and Juan Grabois – he finished painting the picture of the terrifying non-future that he promised and closed off any electoral possibility for the 'middle way'. What clear lessons for so many lukewarm colleagues in America! I refer to the tax, labor, educational, and pension reforms that, with the essential addition of legal security, make our country a preferred destination for foreign and domestic investment that, in turn, generate good registered jobs and promote the rational geographical distribution of the population to decongest the urban areas. The tragic events in Brazil have once again brought to the table the issue of transnational narco-terrorism, already present throughout the region, driven by the Mexican, Venezuelan, Peruvian, Bolivian, and Paraguayan cartels. Also, and as it seems to have already understood, to modify the way in which it has been conducted until now and to seek in the 'Hiding Place' (how many new delinquents, including the murderer Jorge Taiana, have joined their ranks!) the necessary consensus to obtain the laws – the DNU decrees are not enough – that allow for development.

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