The wise appreciation of Master Borges that Peronism was incorrigible has not been amended by time; On the contrary, it has been reinforced and revalued until a common currency is more solvent than the cyclically depreciated Argentine peso. Such a weighting made fortune right after leaving the lips of genius. This gave rise to a celebrated anecdote. With his sight already irreversibly lost, a gentle stroller offered to help him cross a confluent Buenos Aires avenue. Noted his unexpected guide about what the celebrity thought of the Peronists, he felt obliged to prevent him from his condition as such: "Excuse me teacher, but I have to warn you that I am Peronist." With a good-humored smile, he replied: "Don't worry, young man! I'm blind too . "

Certainly, Argentina, being a prodigal country in resources, has surrendered a sickle and coz to a Peronism that has operated a clientele and corrupt system that has not only pitifully debuted it, but has made it so solipsist as not to notice the nature and severity of their ills. However, Borges' wise weighing on Peronist incorrigibility can be extended to a good part of Argentines, although they do not ascribe to this movement, although they behave as such.

Being Peronists without knowing it, they give the reason to General Perón , according to the answer he gave to a foreign journalist who asked him about the political wants of his compatriots. After detailing the existence of radicals, socialists, communists, fascists ..., his interviewer objected: "But, general, where do you leave the Peronists?", To which the leader refuted: "Ah, no, Peronists we are all " .

This seems to be based on the history of the country since the 40s when Perón banned a populist cause in which Podemos has a source of inspiration through Buenos Aires post-Marxist philosopher Ernesto Laclau , author of Populist Reason, and the broad victory harvested by his candidate, Alberto Fernández, in the primary elections of a week ago, which ventures the Peronist return to the Casa Rosada after the October decision-making elections.

If the expectations were endorsed, the liberal Mauricio Macri would suppose a new parenthesis in the quasi monopoly of power by the movement sponsored by those who understood that "we proclaim social rights" and "the actuarial issues that are fixed by those who come within 50 years ". In just correspondence, the first lady, Evita Perón , inflamed the masses to the shout of "you have the duty to ask!", While digging the Argentine ruin and putting her fortune to the good Swiss collection, without diminishing the confidence of a people enfebrecido with their lies raised really official. Already the rhetoric Gorgias entrusted Socrates with his experience that every time he arrived in a city with his brother to be entrusted with his health, they always chose him, a sophist, and not his consanguineous doctor. He accumulated a fortune such as to self-erect a golden statue. Invariably, healers and miracle workers always thrive in times of trouble.

Given this state of affairs, the engineer Macri would have, of course, the honor of being the first non-Peronist ruler who culminates his mandate since 1928 after inheriting a borderline situation with a state plagued with patronage, waste and corruption, as if it were the way of being from the Argentines. The streets of Buenos Aires covered with graffiti appeared with Cristina Kirchner, questioning the pedestrians with the index finger next to the legend. The fault is yours ... you voted for me . Even for the most recalcitrant Peronism, it was a great discomfort to adhere to the multimillion-dollar diarrhea of ​​the Kirchner marriage, speaking of hunger to standardize the disinherited they produced with their political nephanda and wholesale mangances. As much as the Argentines have assumed that nobody got rich there with their work since the emergence of Peronism, even abuse has a limit.

Forgetting its history and condemned unrepentantly to repeat it as Sisyphus to drag the rock uphill , the architect of that "sensational country" - "feeling of insecurity, feeling of crisis, feeling of recession, feeling of uncertainty" - while being judged Due to his theft, he returns to public life after four years of leaving the Casa Rosada through the back door. He does it as vice president in the candidacy that has defeated a perplexed Macri without palliatives, who can also be swallowed by the gigantic wave that has triggered the electoral tsunami . Paradoxically, at the time of goodbye, he tries to stop against the clock with clearly Peronist court measures that disprove his liberal trajectory, which would endorse the widespread impression that all Argentine parties are, in essence, Peronists. In the fight he waged in pursuit of his political survival, Macri lights the chimney of electoral spending by making fire with the weights of the State Budget. In his agony, he has claudicated populist temptation by selling his soul to the devil and it is already known how he charges his gambling debts.

Such is the omnipresence of Peronism that, during the Falkland Islands War, there were Argentines who, in the manner of the French-speaking Napoleonic Spain, ironized that it had been a good idea to challenge the United Kingdom to see if, in retaliation, the invaded and eradicated the institutional corruption of a country accustomed to steal itself. But, of course, even Brexit's England, led by the populism of the rallying populace of Boris Johnson , a good Churchill biographer but a lousy heir to his teachings, has nothing to do with that one of Margaret Thatcher that was, on the other hand, the epigone of British statesman par excellence.

In this sense, it would be said that, after 40 years of that conflict destined to mask the problems of the Dictatorship, both countries converge in even populisms that elude the consequences of their actions by rolling them on other people's roofs. [For this reason, it was gratifying to hear a speech of investiture so in the antipodes of the new president of the Community of Madrid , proclaiming the reduction of taxes and the impulse to economic freedom. Bases of the autonomy of the spectacular development against the decline of Catalonia strongly intervened by nationalism or other regions in the hands of the fiscal asphyxiation of the stateist left. However, no one escapes the Herculean of the work of the novel Ayuso by steering a fragile coalition and paddling against the current of a possible government of the left-wing nation subject to podemites and independence.]

There is no doubt that Argentina is a catastrophe of bad politics. But Peronism is not circumscribed beyond the seas, but it is manifested here by also registering what the great Mexican intellectual Gabriel Zaid calls "truth by affiliation" and which, translated into ideological parameters, means "I am right to declare myself leftist, instead of being right. " This originates comprehensive and forgiving ideological masses with the corrupt to rude extremes as in the 40 years of socialist regime in Andalusia or with the kleptocracy organized so many years by the viceroy Jordi Pujol in Catalonia and of which THE WORLD made new revelations this week on the part of its heritage from its hidden agios in Switzerland.

After the socialist threat of putting him in jail through the hole of Catalan Banking, he began to give lessons in ethics, as he presumed peeked out on the balcony of the Generalitat, based on prolonging corruption from the Autonomous Government with unusual success. Not already among his own parish inclined to tolerate the thief if he is his own, but from the accomplice left, as well translated by the communist writer Vázquez Montalbán - "No one, absolutely no one in Catalonia, whatever the creed, can reach the the slightest shadow of suspicion that he is a thief "- as well as all those who needed his vote to rule Spain with whom he had deceived so many as to proclaim him Spanish of the year.

Very recently, Felipe González continued to believe in his innocence, despite the fact that the evidence against him formed an avalanche such as to confine him both to the boss and his family. Not only was the nationalist creed united, but it constituted a sacrosanct organization of criminals. Of course, endowed with a Corsican patent and with undoubted capacity to shear the Catalans and the Spaniards as a whole accusing the latter of robbing Catalonia. A bird of accounts this Pujol reminiscent of Martín Fierro's poem: "Of the evils we suffer / people talk a lot, / but they do like the terros / to hide their little nests: / in one lao the screams hit / and in another they have the güevos ".

Few self-portraits as honest as the one that great trickster who has turned out to be nothing honorable Pujol made of himself in the leaflet in which, under the title We present you to General Franco , he appealed to boycott a visit of the dictator and in which he worked his Redeemer myth of Catalonia. "General Franco, the man who will soon come to Barcelona, ​​has chosen - it was read - as an instrument of government corruption. [...] He knows that a rotten country is easy to dominate. [...] Therefore, the regime has promoted the immorality of public and economic life. "

After 50 years, in which Catalonia has run from Franco to nationalism without living full freedom, it is difficult not to see this great Tartufo reproduced pristinely. Boasting of virtue, a great impostor has been discovered. He has made patriotism his heritage, playing with a credible society that has already raised a fake named Enric Marco to the category of anti-Nazi hero .

All Catalonia had plenty of reasons to know about the business of the family of the Pujol, but it was new. He wanted to believe more what he heard from the tribe's patriarch than what he saw with his eyes. First it was the rinses of the money exchange grandfather exerting him under the protection that Franco always lent to the Catalan bourgeoisie, then the illicit enrichment of the son with the golden vote of the State Budget and the revenue of 3% of the works of the Generalitat and, ultimately, the grandchildren's savings, supporting those illegal traffics for being who they were. After leaving rositas of the plundering of Banca Catalana and guaranteeing an impunity that has survived until his retirement, Pujol believed that the whole mountain was oregano until, with his own hands, he called for his damages.

If Josep Pla expressed graphically that "Catalanism should not dispense with Spain because the Catalans manufacture many underpants, but do not have so many asses", now that it does not manufacture so many underpants and many flags, there are meters of stellar fabric to hide so much latrocinio . Nationalism fought against the supposed plundering of Catalonia by that Spain that robbed him of plundering whole Spain and his beloved Catalonia. The same as the former leader of the Northern League, Umberto Bossi , enriched himself by shaking his xenophobia against thief Rome and the parasitic South. It is no accident that the details of his systemic looting were contained in a folder under the heading The Family . Both embody that of Samuel Johnson that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels and how desires increase with possessions.

However, there is no will to end the masquerade. Much less when the human being does not endure much reality and chooses to deceive oneself in a Catalonia plundered by its rulers. While they were left with the bag, they gave more voices than anyone shouting "the thief is coming!". They loved their thief as only the Argentines knew how to do with Perón. When he was shot down in 1955 by the so-called liberating revolution that restored democracy and disseminated information about the dictatorship's sexual malpractice and practices, which they accused of pimping and corruption of minors, their supporters came out in their defense chanting: "Puto y thief, we want Perón . " There his perennial legacy persists as here a kleptocrat who, more than a Catalan patriot, has been found to be a member of the Union of Swiss Banks . It is what happens, in effect, when people revere their thieves to idolatry.

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