Letters from the editor: The countryside, winners and losers, voting days
Letter of the week
The field
The Minister of Deregulation, Federico Sturzenegger, stated: “The countryside is not very labor-intensive, at least not the extensive agriculture of the pampas [in the Pampa region]” (sic).
For every direct job, the countryside generates three indirect jobs, which is why it is protected worldwide, in addition to the economic development in surrounding communities due to the sharp increase in all types of sales it generates. Agricultural and livestock farming is what will pull our country out of the crisis it is experiencing if it stops being plundered as it was for decades, especially by Kirchnerism.
With the greatest respect, this official forgets that the countryside is a bullet train whose tracks have been ruined.
Roberto A. Meneghini
Winners and losers
It's a conceptual error to talk about winners and losers among the candidates leading the Buenos Aires lists. This is a legislative election. The leading candidates don't compete against each other. They compete against the seats they're renewing. If they win more seats than they renew, they emerge winners. If they win fewer seats than they renew, they emerge losers. In other words, there's no competition among the candidates leading the lists. Nor does it matter much whether some lists run together or separately. What counts is the number of seats won by the different models of the country at stake.
Diego Carminatti
DNI 13.214.035
Voting days
Why doesn't the single ballot also allow Saturday voting? In the United States, you can also vote several days in advance.
Eduardo R. Malvar
Boroquotation
It's been quite a while since professional football teams remained unchanged for many years, with no changes in their lineup. During the 1940s, my beloved Boca Juniors team was famous (in its honor, I mention its members: Vaca, Marante and De Zorzi, Sosa, Lazzatti and Pescia, Boyé, Corcuera, Sarlanga, Ricagni, and Pin, some of them true stars who live on in our memories). People's jobs in companies or institutions also remained unchanged over the years, and it was a true honor to retire in the same place. With a touch of irony, I also include the marriages of yesteryear. Today, customs have changed dramatically, for better and for worse. In the case of politics and politicians, it was categorically for the worse. In 2005, Borocotó Jr. – the son of a famous football commentator – made history after being elected to Congress by suddenly switching political sides before taking office, a true media scandal, giving rise to the term “borocotization.”
Today, astonished and astonished, we see how what once horrified us is now more than commonplace among many politicians. Like a locust, they leap from bloc to bloc and party to party, shamelessly, to the rhythm of the political hurly-burly.
Other customs. Other values. Other times.
Architect Fernando Aftalión
Works and floods
More than twenty years ago, I lived on Vidal Street in Belgrano. When it rained, Vega Creek would overflow its banks and flood Blanco Encalada Street, making us have to cross the street with water up to our waists. The same thing happened on Elcano Street and Juan B. Justo Avenue (Maldonado Creek). Until the administration of Mauricio Macri, who permanently resolved the problem by adding spillways and drainage systems to these streams. The piping of these streams began a long time ago, but it was only under Mauricio Macri that flooding was prevented. No other mayor or governor was concerned about these disasters, which killed many people in La Plata and Bahía Blanca, in addition to ruining homes throughout the metropolitan area.
It is good to remember who is making lies and who is just spreading lies.
Esteban Tortarolo
Complicity
Almost half of the senators voted against a clean record. I therefore understand that they are accomplices, by not prohibiting criminals from entering the Honorable Chamber of Senators of the Nation. Let's look at the RAE's definition of an accomplice: a person who, without being the perpetrator of a crime or misdemeanor, cooperates in its execution with prior or simultaneous acts. The senators' decision on a clean record is not the only one surprising. In the case of Judge Lijo, after his appointment to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, the Council of the Judiciary has remained silent (complicit?) on the causes of the widespread resistance to the judge joining the highest court. Among those causes are: inability to justify his assets, halting and delaying proceedings. One initiated by Carrió has been in her court for more than ten years. He cannot be a member of the Supreme Court of Justice, but he can be a judge. The Council of the Judiciary has a rather specific corruption meter, depending on how you look at it. Justice, as a moral principle, is essential for guiding the nation; it is the power of the honorable judges. We appeal to the conscience and conviction of each of them.
Carlos Lázaro Ballero
Birth rate
"Demographic change: Childless households now represent a majority in the country," is one of the news stories in La Nacion on May 15. What a heartbreaking headline and what sad news...
Julio Orma Carrasco
Trip canceled
It's a shame that President Milei has canceled his trip to Rome to stay for the Buenos Aires City elections. It's unlikely that the LLA candidate will win or lose based on the votes of the President and his entourage. Pope Francis's death is very recent, and his absence from the new pontiff's formal inauguration is not the best thing for his international image or ours as a country. There's no doubt he prioritizes petty things over important things.
Horacio Mieres
DNI 8.608.530
Compensation
I agree with the spirit of Representative López Murphy's bill, which proposes compensation for the victims of the Marxist guerrillas that ravaged our country beginning in the 1960s. I believe it should stipulate that payment of such compensation will be borne, first and foremost, by those who were part of the armed movements, as well as their spokespersons and political supporters. And that only the national state, which is responsible for this under the bill, would be subsidiarily liable. First, this is only fair, since it would pay the perpetrators of the deaths, injuries, and damage that it is intended, in some way, to repair. Second, it is also fair because it was the national state—and its constitutional order—that the guerrillas attacked. It is absurd, then, for the state to be held responsible for the damage they caused (in reality, that cost would be borne by all of us, ordinary citizens). On the other hand, many of those who sowed death and destruction enjoy millionaire fortunes, sometimes suspiciously obtained; so that the disbursements that the community would have to face would decrease considerably.
Daniel Zolezzi
Eating habits
I'm primarily a livestock producer, and I also farm. Part of my family is vegan, and I have to learn to live with that reality. My vegan children have lived in San Martín de los Andes for several years. Chatting with them, they told me how difficult it is to obtain soybeans in the area to prepare their meals, and how expensive soy products, such as tofu, are. If there's no demand, there will obviously be a shortage of supply.
Considering the nutritional situation of many low-income families and their budgets, and considering that soy protein is an excellent nutrient, and costs at most 10% of beef, why isn't there investment in education and encouraging its consumption? For the same price, what one person eats would feed ten.
Changing customs and habits requires planning, teaching, and education. It would be wonderful if the country of soy and meat were to invest the necessary resources to promote intelligent consumption of the former, the return of which, I believe, would be indisputable in terms of health and development.
Ignacio de Uribelarrea
DNI 13.232.448
Pan-American
The Pan-American Highway is a mess. Not only do you have to worry about collecting revenue (tolls, speed controls), but you also have to monitor and fine buses and trucks that use any lane, impeding traffic, and motorcycles that violate traffic regulations. On the other hand, lighting is very important, and there are increasingly more dark stretches, and they aren't being repaired. Tolls continually increase, but service worsens.
Monica Perriard
DNI 4,858,364
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