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EMPTY CHAIRS

By Carlos Madama - Argentina

Argentina, despite everything

Argentina is a rich country no matter how you look at it. Throughout the 2,795,677 square kilometers of surface, possibilities of progress constantly emerge that politicians are responsible for destroying to fulfill their personal ambitions, which are not exactly those that benefit the people in general.

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Even so, the generosity of the soil makes the corrupt go unnoticed or at least not feel so guilty about their miserable attitudes.

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Different works released by private entities and the government itself chaired by Javier Milei, speak clearly of the moral and economic disaster left by the mandate of his predecessor Alberto Fernández and a large part of his entourage.

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Works announced grandly and never even began to be executed and others abandoned halfway and in both cases with one hundred percent of the contract paid to the companies that should have done the work. Awards in the nebula that later returned in royalties to those who gave them the works and other obscene maneuvers that just knowing about them cause nausea.

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These delusions had also occurred in the different public departments with countless positions granted to family members, political leaders and other herbs. Countless offices with very long names that were never useful for anything. There were shelters for all those who, in exchange for a very generous salary, were always and at any time available to carry out superior orders and be present at every event organized to enhance their egos.

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Militancy had its reward that all the inhabitants of this land paid. Pockets full of corruption, dirty money and sly smiles in the face of manifest impunity.

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Despite all the investigations known so far, everyone knows that there are many more “dead” people under the tiles. That so many years of government has left its protagonists with a well-being rarely seen, while honest inhabitants continue to suffer the hardships of the country they left for us and which is evidently not theirs.

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Knowing how far so much corruption has gone is one of the priorities of the current president and his cabinet. Time knows about these things and you never know when there may be new revelations that are momentarily hidden in who knows what gloomy place.

As if they were Snow White or some other of the characters in an invented fiction, the authors of these negotiations, including Fernández himself, walk horribly through life taking advantage of the time to criticize those who have had to take charge of solutions to their poor efforts.

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There is a phrase that has been circulating for years in Argentina, and that says "Here you throw some seeds on the side of a road and in a few days everything is planted." It's a shame that many have abused this sentence...

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