Letters to the editor: Backs turned, visitors, judges
Backwards
Once again, part of the Buenos Aires Province Senate demonstrated its unwavering commitment to ensuring provincial officials can be reelected indefinitely. A political class that turns its back on the citizens and is only concerned with maintaining its privileged position. If this isn't the caste, where is it?
Adriana de la Canal
DNI 6,522,747
Visits
The senators and deputies representing Unión por la Patria (Union for the Homeland) filed a brief with the Second Federal Oral Court stating that they have the "right to visit Cristina Kirchner" whenever they deem it appropriate. The question that arises is what stance these thugs will take when the Federal Penitentiary Service personnel, in compliance with their specific responsibilities, deny them access to the convicted woman's detention center, thus creating an impassable barrier to their illegal activities.
The "barrabravas" aren't just present in the world of football; they're also present in the National Congress. A generous country. Sad but true.
Oscar Edgardo García
Judges
What's wrong with the judges? On June 11, Mrs. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was sentenced to prison. The least she should have done was appear before the court to be notified and remain under arrest, if only for the formalities, because the judge had already ordered her house arrest. The day before yesterday (Wednesday), another case shocked me: a man convicted of rape and sentenced to 16 years, having served his first year and about to turn 70, apparently the judge was able to grant him house arrest (coincidentally, his address is in Puerto Madero)… Perhaps after just a few days in detention, the courts are already considering granting Cristina temporary releases. What's wrong with the judges? They can't seem to rule on military detainees over 70, 80, or more years old and serving almost 20 years in prison, most of them with health problems, and grant them house arrest, even if only for humanitarian reasons?
Ernesto García González
Evita and the balcony
Art has the unique ability to make us see reality with overwhelming clarity. That happened to me yesterday when I attended the musical Evita in London, where I live, starring Rachel Zegler and directed by the award-winning Jamie Lloyd. The staging was simply brilliant, but there was one moment that took my breath away: a scene in which Evita addresses the people from a balcony, in a live broadcast from the London Palladium to the street, where the audience becomes part of the show. That moment, in which Zegler performs "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from high above the London streets, was a perfect visual synthesis of populism: masses mesmerized by a charismatic figure, an emotional speech, and a carefully constructed staging. What was disturbing was the relevance of that act. Just a week ago, in Buenos Aires, an identical but real scene occurred: former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner—now convicted and under arrest for corruption—waving to a fanatical crowd from the balcony of her home. Almost 80 years after the original phenomenon, Peronism continues to resort to the same gestures, the same choreographies, the same stories.
The musical not only revives the figure of Eva Perón; it also challenges us. It forces us to ask ourselves how far we've come, or perhaps how little we've progressed. Because when history repeats itself as a spectacle, applause masks the disaster and emotion replaces memory.
Lucas Salemme
DNI 38.992.855
Let's define privilege
Today, the national government eliminated the Public Employees' Day holiday, arguing that "the State is not a place where people should take a sabbatical or a privilege that private-sector workers lack" and that "...that day is paid for with the salary of every single taxpayer in the country." I am an agricultural engineer, I get up at 5:30, I take the bus, the subway, or the train when it runs, I work Monday through Friday, eight hours a day, for 32 years, in a public agency. My salary is considerably lower than what ministers, secretaries of state, deputies, and senators earn, who meet five or six times a year if they're lucky, in addition to having access to free plane tickets for themselves or their families, among other things. I ask Mr. Adorni: if having a day off is a privilege, what do senators, deputies, ministers, and secretaries of state receive? The end.
María Trinidad Berbery
DNI 18.287.449
Garrahan Hospital
At the time of writing, the conflict at Garrahan Hospital continues without a real solution. Doctors, nurses, and residents maintain their demand for decent wages, while the official response remains limited to non-remunerative bonuses that neither address the accumulated salary losses nor cover all staff. This situation directly affects care at a key institution for pediatric health. Without a serious and sustained salary policy, public health will continue to be weakened. It is time to seriously listen to a demand that cannot wait any longer.
Ricardo González Sbarbi
DNI 4,553,203
Our subways
It is unacceptable that those with reduced mobility cannot use the city's subway services, given that there is no mechanical way to access the trains.
An unacceptable cruelty.
Julio Golodny
DNI 10.129.205
On the Facebook Network
River Plate and Boca Juniors eliminated from the Club World Cup
"It's clear that football is also controlled by the powerful. The difference between American and European teams is vast. It's a different level, a different style, always moving forward. And in our country's case, we won the World Cup thanks to those who play in Europe." - Jorge Burgat
"The teams that call themselves 'the best in Argentina... the best in the world' had a reality check, they showed that they are far from the football of America and Europe... both left with scandal and shame... the lie is over" - Jorge Legui
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