Letters from the editor: Open-air fair, place of residence, contradiction
Open-air fair
Since Cristina Kirchner's sentence was announced, a circus-like and embarrassing spectacle has been taking place outside her home at 1111 San José Street in the Constitución neighborhood. Her supporters decided to camp out at the foot of her balcony, where she periodically emerged to wave, dance, jump, make gestures, and make nervous movements. They set up a gazebo, banners, flags, and other party paraphernalia.
The sale of choripanes and hamburgers without any sanitary controls is a brilliant food business, which also smokes out the neighborhood. Beer cans, cartons of wine, glasses of Fernet, and other stimulants complete the nutritional aspect. Little by little, the area became an open-air fair. Homes were invaded, neighbors attacked, businesses closed. Trees, garbage containers, and every corner were used as restrooms. All 24 hours a day. It's fair to assume that many lawyers summoned by the neighbors have considered filing lawsuits against Cristina Kirchner and the social groups that encouraged and carried out this chaos, which could be repeated despite the eviction operation carried out early Sunday morning.
If San José 1111 is the location chosen to fulfill the request for house arrest, the riots and crimes will increase, and we'll be faced with a neighborhood taken over by hordes of lumpen criminals. It's inconvenient, dangerous, and irritating that this is the appropriate place to enjoy the privilege of house arrest, should the judges and prosecutors so decide.
Gabriel C. Varela
DNI 4,541,802
Place of residence
Every time there are elections, the media shows Ms. Cristina Fernández voting in El Calafate. If her house arrest were to take place there, no immediate neighbor would be affected in their daily lives. The demonstrations her supporters are planning would be limited, and a massive deployment of security forces wouldn't be necessary. The address the former president has listed in Buenos Aires City doesn't match the one on her ID. The residents of the building on San José Street, those in the surrounding area, and those in the city of Buenos Aires would be very grateful if the judges would consider this option.
Ordinary citizens, those of us who do not have privileges, deserve to live in peace.
Andrea Cecilia Testa
DNI 16.559.434
Contradiction in terms
I find it absurd that Mrs. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her associates should be placed under house arrest, given that their mansions are the product of corruption, for which they were convicted.
Their fate must be a state prison, where they may have to suffer the lack of funding that she and her entourage have contributed to.
Eduardo M. Ottolenghi
Collateral damage
I read in a note from the article on K-14 corruption in La Nación on the 14th of this month: "A judicial review authorized the San José house as a detention center." This authorization is legally correct, but it doesn't address the inconvenience it exposes to the residents of the building where the convicted former president lives and those in the surrounding area. All legal. But this legality affects people who until now had lived in peace, and with this definition, their rights to rest and freedom of movement will be affected.
Luis María Canziani
DNI 4,168,585
Democracy
It's almost commonplace to talk about the decline of democracy, its fragility, the exhaustion of the system. I believe just the opposite. The excesses of politics can wreak havoc, but they are analyzed and dissected by a society more alert than ever, one that is absolutely terrified of decline because it believes itself to be the founder of modernity and feels strong and robust because it has endured hunger while watching the wheat grow. As for the system, it ignores it and therefore isn't concerned.
Democracy is inherently chaotic, a roar of many unique voices. We cannot expect it to remain still, to generate new ways to demonstrate that the core is intact. People speak through social media, communicate, and obtain information driven by artificial intelligence, whether in supermarkets, offices, classrooms, or the next room. Democracy is alive in the anxiety to express oneself and in the anguish over how others express themselves.
Democracy is safe, we just need to adjust our coexistence, dialogue, and perspective.
The problem is that it is our responsibility, not the system's.
Dora Moneta
DNI 3,605,083
Education and justice
A glance at any country with a good quality of life is enough to realize that a good education and a solid, efficient, and independent judicial system are the common factor behind all progress. Unfortunately, in Argentina, for 25 years or more, both conditions have been blatantly neglected, and this continues to be the case.
One wonders whether this has been (and is) the result of negligence or whether it is due to a certain functionality of the government in power.
Noel Gibson
The bite
The entire bureaucratic structure of the State operates on the basis of "the kickback." If, due to some error, a piece of the system doesn't participate, a bypass is simply made and the party continues. That hasn't changed, and fighting it is cultural and very difficult; it would be like a genetic change.
Juan Manuel Peire
DNI 4,536,362
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