HE metre from the city Buenos Aires is a hell of sound. Squeaks in cars, horns, voices, screams, musicians. All journeys are above “clearly unacceptable” noise levels. The daily average is about 90 decibels but can be higher. Ricardo Gene is 79 years old. He is a doctor and retired teacher. He does not usually use this means of transportation. But hours ago, despite the deafening noise, he felt the need to explain to the passengers the dangers he would face if he won. Javier Milei Sunday’s elections against the Peronists Sergio Massa In a very close race. far righthe wants to end free university education, he warned.
Elsa Lombardo did the same. sociologist One survivor between concentration camp El Olimpo operated during the last military dictatorship (1976-83). Lombardo was one of the witnesses at the historic trial of the former commanders. 1985. His intervention in the subway created a bigger drama. He asked his listeners to “please reject Milei at the ballot box” on behalf of those who are not here, on behalf of the thousands of others, on behalf of the babies who are never seen, on behalf of those of us who have abandoned the comfort of our home and tell our story. While silent among the applause, some passengers hugged him. Last weekend, a similar incident happened to Anita Fernández, the granddaughter of one of the company’s founders. Mothers of the Plaza de MayoHe disappeared in 1977. His 16-year-old mother was kidnapped and tortured. Another terror victim applied for the same call.
unprecedented situation
Martina Miravalles and her sister Luciana decided to talk to the passengers on line B. Remind them that Milei is a fan. Margaret Thatcher who, during the war, for his property falkland islands Together with Great Britain, in 1982 he ordered the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano outside the exclusion zone. The attack caused the deaths of 323 Argentine soldiers. “I have dead colleagues. We have a responsibility to vote with the country and those children in mind. Let’s not forget Sunday,” one of the sisters insisted. In another car, a mother of three disabled children asked her not to vote for Milei because she would be deprived of state support.
“Some people talk about transportation. They don’t have flyers, papers or anything to sell. It has a language, a testimony, a body.. They tell their stories. They were born to tortured women, they have children who need public health, they are health doctors, they went through concentration camps,” says writer María Pía López. “Everyone speaks for them and reminds us that there is a common life. “If there is no crime, it becomes state policy.”
Fear of Milei and her immorality
Milei fear is shouted. But it’s not just the name that’s causing fear right now. Additionally, the vice president, Victoria Villarruel, was the daughter of an officer who participated in the war. oppression and refused to swear an oath to the Constitution in a democracy. His uncle was also linked to the dictatorship. Villarruel has been an advocate for the actions of the Armed Forces for almost half a century, demanding the freedom of those in uniform convicted of serious human rights violations.
The prospect of Milei’s victory not only sends shivers through a segment of society, it also brings with it an assumption that is becoming widespread these days: the anarcho-capitalist candidate, emotional instabilityHe may leave office, something that has already happened in Peru and Brazil for different reasons. In this case, Villarruel would take his place. “Is that (Mauricio) Macri’s plan?“, asked the newspaper’s editor, Jorge Fontevechia. Profile, He illustrated his column with an artificial intelligence-generated photograph of the candidate with the presidential sash and baton. At this point, former President Macri is much more than an ally of the far right. He wants to be the big puppeteer behind the scenes.
Military joint government
Villarruel launched his own brand just five days before the election. By portal Online policyIf he wins Sunday, the vice president “will consider the political weakness that the La Libertad Avanza government would have without its own governors and without the minorities in both houses of Congress.” military support“In this regard, Milei will try to occupy critical areas of his cabinet with military personnel, just like Jair Bolsonaro did in Brazil. One of the areas he wants to be responsible for is Customs. The supporter of this plan is a retired colonel. Jorge VivesWorking in military intelligence and part of the pro-dictatorship Oíd Mortales Foundation.
Bullying “leftists”
Villarruel had made the note in the final days of this campaign. While debating on television with Peronist vice-presidential candidate Agustín Rossi Defended former Army officer Juan Daniel Amelong, who had five convictions for kidnapping, torture, disappearance and baby theftBut La Libertad Avanza’s candidate also warned that if he reached the Government he would want to “rediscuss” the law guaranteeing this. Voluntary termination of pregnancy as well as recycling the facilities of the Naval Mechanics School (ESMA), the most important concentration camp in Argentina’s capital, which UNESCO declared a World Cultural and Natural Heritage site as “the most important symbol of state terrorism”. According to Villarruel, this 17-hectare area “is an area that all Argentinian people can benefit from, especially at that time it was intended to be a school, which was what we needed most.” Owner Grandmothers of Plaza de MayoEstela de Carlotto assured that the aim of the far right is to “erase history”.
Fernández talked about this concern in the subway, recalling that the vice presidential candidate “said his favorite sport was bullying and hitting left-handed people.” Some passengers did not pay attention to him. While others were asking “never again” he looked at her and said “Please don’t vote for Milei for democracy“.