First of all, a message to the residents of Bajo Belgrano, who this week symbolically embraced the Juramento y Artilleros block to prevent its sale. From the bottom of my heart, don’t waste your time protesting.
The national government He needs to raise money and will sell itWhether the neighbors like it or not.
But there is something else you need to know: the CABA planning regulations stipulate that only ground floors and 5 floors can be built there. You should better understand that this is the case That won’t happen.
Surely the lucky buyer of the property will sit on the sidewalk and think and come to the conclusion that it is much better for the city to do this two 30-story towers and a 5-story Morondaga.
This real estate innovator will present his dream to the city government, then Jorge Macri’s officials will say that the idea is great, and finally they will approve the towers through the so-called “Professor”. “urban development contract”.
This euphemism refers to an agreement by which the city authorizes the construction of towers that the law does not allow, and in return the man agrees to hand over a small plot of land two slides and call it “green space”.
It seems crazy, but that’s how it is. Rodríguez Larreta has already done it and he did it very well. It wasn’t enough to be president, but it must have left him with some spiritual well-being or moral satisfaction or inner peace or whatever, but it certainly left him with something.
In all of this, it is very important that neighbors know that this is how things are done in this country and in this city. If they don’t like it, they move to Brussels and that’s it.
So let’s get down to business.
This Wednesday the government celebrates its first two-year anniversary. Who would have thought? Between pipes and flutes (in Javi’s style, we would say more pipes than flutes), 24 months have passed since Milei assumed the presidency of the nation.
Although it officially started on December 10, 2023, we can say that things began to take shape in the summer of 2024. More or less as Pepe Albistur entered immortality with his forecast: “They say Easter to Milei, it is not known whether it falls in March or April.” This boy is a visionary.
Fortunately, Pepe devotes himself to government business and public relations. If he had a political consulting firm, it would have already gone bankrupt, and in order to survive he would have to charge Alberto the rent for the derpa he lends him in Puerto Madero. Albistur may not be a visionary, but as everyone knows, he is very generous. Suspiciously generous.
Has anything important changed in these two years? Naturally. Inflation fell, street picketing ended, and we returned to the West. It’s not a little.
However, choreo continues to be practiced in large parts of the nation state. There are “urban planning agreements” everywhere. And the lack of dollars continues to be an issue on the agenda.
Right now, as the IMF’s appeal has dried up and Scott Bessent has shown that he is supportive but not stupid, Caputo announced that we are going to the market looking for dollars. They will issue a bond in 2029 with an interest rate of 6.5% and under Argentine law. Great deal, especially if you wait a little and buy it after the default has occurred. As usual. This time they are issued under Argentine law, so victims here will have to go to court. In other words, not only do we all know we’re going to screw them up, but we’re already telling them that they won’t have anywhere to go to complain.
Kirchnerism protests, but does the same thing. Kicillof has issued debts amounting to 3,685 Palos Verde and now needs approval from the national government. To put it coolly, the governor declared, “Quick Toto.” Unnecessary. We all know Toto is fast.
To authorize this debt, Kicillof had to pressure the struggling mayors into what we might call his own “urban planning agreement.” But the most interesting thing is that in order to get the opposition’s votes, He expanded the number of members on the board of Banco Provincia from 8 to 14 and was thus able to distribute more positions, i.e. boxes.
Let’s see how the 14 chairs were distributed.
Massa took two, which is fair because since they ran out of the official dollar joke, it must be them with little money.
Two more were taken by La Cámpora, which is used to putting gnocchi everywhere and is suffering today Withdrawal syndrome.
Two of them went to the PRO, which was a rarity for them. It is noted that the cat already is due to something else and he doesn’t give them the ball anymore.
One of them was for Insaurralde, who must have left a shed in Marbella and needs to lift the Tomuer. Another went to Monzó, we don’t know what for, and finally one went to UCR, which is pretty good considering today The radicals are four crazy cats. A great soldier among four, that pays off for them.
The rest went to Kicillof, but that’s obviously not enough for him. He had to create another job: a provincial film institute with an annual budget of 650 million pesos, or $430,000. You can’t even make half a film with that little money. At most you pay the popcorn, but you can pay the salary of its director Florencia Saintout, who, as a good admirer of Chávez and Maduro, must have fallen from grace and will be short of money.
To this we add that they will be able to bet a good portion of gnocchi. In these times of malaria everything adds up to Peronism.
The week ended with this Taking the oath in the Chamber of Deputies. The years go by and it gets more and more fun.
Kirchnerism became a school there. Just as the residents of La Cámpora insulted their opponents when they took the oath, today it is the libertarians who are attacking.
Today Lilia Lemoine is the new provocateur of Congress. To understand what happened to Argentine democracy, let’s remember what happened in the 80s This role was filled by Cesar Jaroslavsky. To us at the time it seemed like a hairy beast. Today we know that he was a professional politician with a capital letter. Compared to Lilia, Don Cesar was Churchill, Roosevelt and Adenauer all in one. Nice parable about history.
We must also recognize that the Kirchnerists and the Left They swear by what is sung to them. They say and do everything outrageous. For example, Grabois showed all his theatricality by forming his fingers into a V, his fingers marked the three for Karina, he stretched his arm with the palm down like Mussolini, he raised his arm with a clenched fist like Stalin, and as he walked he made the gesture of at the end Snorting cocaine like Scarface. What is called a complete artist. The next one flaps his nails and breathes fire.
The question remained who he was referring to when he made the little nose gesture. It was a bit of a joke because there are many more cheating suspects in his club than in the opposing team. He will know.
Given this panorama, what is left for all of us, the usual idiots? The same as our whole lives: working, paying taxes and screwing ourselves.
Or enter the system and look for our position in the Banco Provincia directory or elsewhere in the state, or our return on the purchase of medicines or our own crypto or our agreement with Chiqui or another urban planning agreement.
You can even build a good company specializing in public works, taking advantage of the fact that the priests of this company work They are all busy zooming.
Ultimately we can’t complain. Argentina continues to be a land of opportunity.