On Sunday, with more than 55% of the vote, Javier Milei, a man who receives news of his dead dog, was elected president of Argentina. The First Lady is – for now – his girlfriend Fátima Florez, a comic actress whose highlight is imitating her boyfriend’s dark nemesis, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Vice President is Victoria Villarruel, who persistently defends the genocidal dictatorship that was in power between 1976 and 1983. Millions of Argentines accompany these beings in the idea that everything can be destroyed. That there are no citizens, but buyers and sellers of things, even their own bodies. That the weak and dispossessed are lazy and don’t want to work. This social justice is deviant. That the state must disappear. That everyone must look after their own well-being and not worry about that of others. That there should be no public health or education. A former television panelist founded a party in two years and became president of a country that in 2023 will – paradoxically – celebrate four decades of blood-won democracy, with one basic idea: we must put an end to the politicians (even though he is one: the main part). It is the same country where the film “Argentina, 1985”, about the trial of the military junta under the government of Raúl Alfonsín, attracted more than a million viewers to cinemas in 2022, especially young people who applauded while standing. Is it the same country, is it the same young people? When his friend Max Brod asked him whether he believed in hope, Franz Kafka replied: “Yes, of course, I believe in hope.” But not for us. There is no hope for us.” Towards the end of the night, a long journey awaits us. But on Sunday, after the results were announced, Milei said in his speech: “In 35 years we will be a world power again.” Thirty-five years. Will there be an end?
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