endemic disease
Recent cases of corruption (AFA, Buenos Aires Provincial Legislature, Obstruction, etc.) led me to the following thought: It would be very naive to claim that there are no isolated pockets of corruption in government environments. The exercise of power can awaken the most terrible baseness in man. The drama in Argentina is that for more than 70 years, corruption left the periphery and entrenched itself at the top of power with increasing greed and exponential speed, spreading like cancerous metastases from the executive to the legislature, the judiciary, the governorates, mayors, ministries, unions, etc., giving rise to conspiracies and entanglements of sinister accomplices that ultimately encompassed the entire political power, contaminating and leading to the rest of society the fact that while a few become rich, the rest of the citizens become destitute and become hostages to the system.
If we fail to eradicate this endemic evil through exemplary punishments and judicial measures, as well as excellent education for the new generations, it will be very difficult to become a respectable and prosperous country, as the good Argentines desire.
Eduardo M. Ottolenghi
can_otto@hotmail.com
mobilization
The leaders of the CGT announce a mobilization in the Plaza de Mayo the day after tomorrow to protest against the labor reform project. It is to be hoped that, if necessary, these gentlemen will march without blocking the streets and impeding the freedom of movement of those of us who need to get to our workplaces and return home. I hope that the reason and empathy that they talk about so much prevails. Let them put it into practice. So be it.
Cristina Wakim
criswakim29@gmail.com
Labor law
Will senators and representatives be able to address labor law when most members of the chambers have never worked outside the state? That is, they have never lived in the real world of labor relations, paid their salaries with their own capital, and also do not know the risks associated with starting a private company. They also did not have to look for a job and were not hired due to the legal risks involved in employing a worker in Argentina. Undoubtedly, it will be very difficult for them to legislate on this issue. Don’t we crave “pears of the elm”?
Rodolfo Miani
DNI 17,865,757
Vaccinations
Many seem to talk about the possible side effects of vaccinations, for example autism, but few discuss the diseases they prevent, such as polio, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, etc. Measles is not a mild disease and can cause pneumonia or encephalitis in the child, with a high risk of death. In 1971 there was an outbreak of measles and polio. I remember that we admitted fifteen children to a ward due to insufficient vaccination, most of them from Emergency Village 31, with severe complications and high mortality, and in the same year there was a polio outbreak with serious patients. Together with doctors Enrique Schiaffino, a pediatrician from San Andrés de Giles, and Pedro de Sarrasqueta, we operated the pulmotors and, when there was no electricity, we used the pedal at the base of the device. Poliomyelitis was the ghost of the century. Later, when I worked at ALPI, I saw the consequences of this disease. Let’s hope anti-vaxxers wake up from their anti-science hysteria and once again rely on evidence and important data when making public health decisions. Recently there have been anti-vaccination programs that border on the grotesque, containing misinformation about the vaccine and increasing confusion among parents.
Alejandro Awad
Former clinical director of the R. Gutiérrez Hospital
DNI 4,420,941
A long saga
The scandal surrounding Tapia and his organization has several aspects, but they all lead to the same result. A simple question should challenge us: how many hospitals, schools or homes correspond to the money that is disappearing today amid opaque administration and complicit silence?
But let’s not kid ourselves. It is neither an anomaly nor an exception. It is just another chapter – almost routine – of a long saga that has lasted for more than eighty years and responds to the same seal: Peronism, with its successive and chameleonic metamorphoses, always ready to change its name so as not to change the practices.
Enrique T. Vidal Bazterrica
evidalbazterrica@gmail.com
Carbon footprint
Will there be a competent body to inform the AFA about the different impact on the carbon footprint of the last game played last Saturday in Santiago del Estero instead of playing it in the AMBA? Moving more than 30,000 fans over 2000 kilometers is nonsense that must be analyzed and condemned. Without taking into account the accidents that could have been caused by this procession.
Mariano Perez Silva
DNI 7,671,576
Christmas together
Shared Christmas is an initiative of the Christian Movement for Rugby People in which, with the efforts of many families and rugby clubs, Christmas boxes are delivered in trucks to different families who receive them by first and last name in different places in our country. These “gestures” of generosity – which are also made in other provinces – mark the presence of rugby in this very special moment in our Argentina and especially in this new coming of the Child Jesus who will be in each of our hearts.
Miguel Martin and Herrera
DNI 14,525,621
In the Facebook network
The government will launch a tender to advance the Tecnópolis concession
“I completely agree with President Milei and his entire team” – Mirta Villalba
“Not all things have to make a profit, but of course they have to be well managed. But it is an educational place to which all children and young people should have free access” – Any Vaernet
“Excellent”- Andrea Posse
“At the end of the concession it is in perfect condition since it was delivered, I was there last month and it is fine” – Viviana Lilian Grillo
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