Javier Milei, favorite in the Argentine presidential elections of October 22, is closing a week for oblivion: from his reference in educational issues raising the advantages of Adolf Hitler's Gestapo being integrated by Argentines instead of Germans, to the candidate for mayor of Buenos Aires defining Spain as his "homeland" while an old video went viral in which he proposed to young people to obtain the maximum amount of Money possible from parents, grandparents and friends to gain financial strength.


"Imagine if the Gestapo had been Argentine, wouldn't it have been much better? Instead of killing six million Jews, surely they were much less because there would have been bribes, inefficiencies of all kinds, they would have fallen asleep. But they were Germans, that's the problem there was," said Martin Krause, a member of the Academic Council of Freedom and Progress of La Libertad Avanza, Milei's populist ultraliberal party.


Milei's party advocates an education system in which demand is financed, not supply. He proposes "vouchers" that the state gives to families so that they can decide which schools to finance and give them their children's education, although he clarifies that it is a long-term proposal. Krause, in a debate held this week at the Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT), an academic center of excellence and important links with the local Jewish community, elaborated on the structural problems of Argentine education before presenting the unusual argument.


Krause later apologized, but it was too late. The Delegation of Israeli Associations in Argentina (DAIA) issued a statement in which they criticize the MIlei referent for "trivialization of the Holocaust."

"The memory of six million people killed cannot be offended and offended," DAIA added.


The striking thing is that Milei is a strong defender of the State of Israel and Judaism, a religion to which he is considering converting after having delved into the reading of the Torah. A rabbi is also his spiritual adviser, and the candidate sums up his eventual foreign policy in two countries: "America and Israel."


Sectors of the local Jewish community have been concerned in recent weeks about the public link between Milei and Judaism, and asked to differentiate themselves from the candidate who disputes power with Peronism and the social-liberal coalition Together for Change (JxC).

Milei has disappeared from the public scene in recent days. He has stopped lavishing himself on interviews and canceled at the last minute a meeting agreed with Fernando Del Rincón, a CNN journalist, who arrived in Buenos Aires to find that the interview would not take place.

Various Argentine media have speculated since Thursday with an emotional collapse of Milei, who this Sunday must be measured against Patricia Bullrich, the candidate of JxC, and Sergio Massa, the Peronist, in the first presidential debate.

Spokesmen for the ultra-liberal candidate denied that emotional breakdown, although the week was particularly difficult for Milei, and not only because of Krause's remarks.

Days before, Ramiro Marra, the young candidate for head of government (mayor) of the city of Buenos Aires, surprised with a proposal made in a disorderly and imprecise way: demolish the public television building, of great architectural value, to erect there two towers of buildings and allocate the money to build schools.

Marra, 40, went further by blaming public television for indoctrinating students through the Paka-Paka educational channel. Beside himself, the mayoral candidate added that he does not believe in the history of independence as it is taught in Argentina.
The dialogue with a journalist was as follows:


- Marra: In Paka-Paka they said that the Spaniards were the bad guys and the Argentines the good guys.

Journalist: What do you think?


- Marra: Not at all. Paka Paka tells that thing. Do you think the Spaniards were the bad guys? I'll tell you, I'm Spanish, I have a Spanish passport, my grandparents are Spanish. My grandparents are not bad and I am not bad. Try to respect my homeland.


In the same hours in which Marra, who intends to govern the capital of Argentina, suffered his attack of Spanishness, videos began to be seen in which a few years ago, acting as a financial advisor, he proposed to young people to squeeze the most out of the financial resources of the family. The first tip: live in the parents' house.


"Don't become independent. Vivilos. They are your parents. They decided to come into the world because they were bored. Let them pay that cost. Let them finance you," says the young Marra.


"If you can live in their house, you save rent. If you can go to eat on Sundays, go eat on Sundays. They had more travel and were able to save. Now enjoy it with your children. I don't know who said that taking financial benefit from parents is wrong."


"Do you want to change the car and you say I have a grandfather, a grandmother, an aunt, or a friend, first you go and borrow pesos. It's part of the negotiation. But let's get rid of those inhibitions that keep us moving away from our potential free financing tools."


Do we have to return that money? Yes, but, says Marra.


"Obviously, since there is a sentimental bond, it does not have to charge interest. Surely they will tell you that if they lend dollars, dollars are returned. We are not urging it not to be returned. You have to return it... in as long as possible."

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