The surprising ideological radicalization in Argentina

Hypothesis Milei It is a distant daughter of Trumpism, Brexit and globally unleashed forces. In recent years. They gave him legitimacy and a world of relationships that attracted attention in this transfer of command ceremony. The electoral victory of La Libertad Avanza now serves as a power plant that promises to fuel other experiences and political illusions of the same sign.

Appearing on a small stage set up behind the congress, Bolsonaro was barred from public office for eight years for raising doubts about election transparency in Brazil and is currently being investigated for allegedly instigating a terrorist organization. Coup attempt against Luiz Inacio Lula da SilvaIt took place for the first time on January 8 short but effective group bath. This applause reflects the new political ideology in Argentina. Although not all Milei voters share Bolsonaro’s most extreme positions and may soon change their minds, as happened with Bolsonaro in the neighboring country, an active political minority has formed in this country to express itself in the Government and it is happening on the streets.

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in 1996 Rodolfo Barra He had to leave the Justice case when his Nazi past was revealed and the photo of him raising his right arm was published. After almost three decades, the political conditions have been created for a return to a Government led by the far right, which calls its enemies cockroaches and rats. He will do this in front of State lawyers.

This incident is just one in a disturbing chain of statements over several years, in which leaders or figures of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) have made statements of an anti-Semitic, and perhaps even exaggerated, anti-communist nature. During the Cold War and even on the border of flat earthism. Elected representative Lilia Lemoine He not only doubts the roundness of the planet. He described a leader who wears a jacket as a patriot. Hitlerite SS.

The president had no connection with Nazism. His sympathy for Israel and its leadership is very meaningful, and he showed it once again this Sunday. “If a pro-Nazi person approaches our place, I will tell him that he has a serious ideological problem. Liberalism is unlimited respect for the life project of others. The Nazi has no business in this structure. He is outside the definition,” he said. To say it before. Its definition includes trivializing or defending the last military dictatorship (1976-83), or the emergence of symbols of the Third Reich, or “damn leftists“. When Patricia Bullrich He, who was running for the presidency of Argentina in the first round, said at LLA events that “they skinheads using swastikas“Milei had no reservations about appointing him as head of the Ministry of Security.

Lots of attacks

According to the Attack Records of the Radicalized Argentine Right (Radar), a project of the magazine Crisis It has received support from the Center for Legal and Social Research (Cels) for the last three years. 220 actions were evaluated as “hate attacks” This doesn’t just include Milei sympathizers. Many of these activities targeted “symbols and places” commemorating the dictatorship. 20 percent of these were “harassment and intimidation”, and the remaining 20 percent were “attacks on physical integrity and life”.

The spirit of these times, so celebrated by Abascal, was not born by a spontaneous generation in Argentina. The first signs were detected in 2018, during parliamentary debates on the law to decriminalize abortion. Antifeminism was mixed with speeches against any progressive proposals. The pandemic is seen as a kind of part of the water. Extended quarantine, “infection“. The tone of the interventions was increasing. He went from social networks to the streets and rode the wave that began to drag Milei to the presidency. 17 percent of the votes received in the city of Buenos Aires in the elections. The 2021 parliamentary elections documented changes that will become more violent. However, on September 1, 2022, Sabag Montiel There were seconds left before ‘s words turned into action. Shoot Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the face twice. The bullets did not come from the gun he was holding. The failed assassination was lamented online because the perpetrator was ineffective.

Analysts agree that these talks would be in vain if it were not economic and social crisis This situation drives millions of people into poverty or social despair. The food of radicalism is not ideology but economy. For these reasons, the prospect of repeating the Argentinian experience creates excitement among Milei’s international partners, but also fear in the region that is observing the unprecedented mutation of this country.