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It’s been a long time, August in fact, since we had one of these. But better late than never, I suppose. The Porteño (resident of Buenos Aires city) in question happens to be a very close friend and we’re always passing mails and commenting between ourselves.

So when Porteño (we’ll use that moniker) saw the Mauricio Macri video in the preceding post this morning he sent me a mail with his views on Macri and entourage that’s well worth putting through the Ottotrans™ and sharing on the blog (permission has been granted). As mentioned already today, Macri is one of these “love him or hate him” characters down there. Enjoy.

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Lord, how these people make me angry. I hate him (Macri). I’d even say that I hate him more than Menem. At least Carlos had charisma. This guy has less charisma than a Korean’s fringe (Ottonote; translated directly just for fun. All he’s trying to say in a true Porteño tone is that Macri has no personality), he’s more boring than De La Rua*. Macri is a total product of political marketing. With some small discourse and big-spending campaign he can even position his friend De Narváez** as a political candidate. The mainstream media fully support him; Clarín, La Nación, TN are always promoting Mauricio Macri and Francisco de Narváez.

Speaking of De Narváez, five or six years ago he bought Juan Perón’s personal library and still hasn’t read one of the books. He said it himself, no kidding.

But back to Mauricio: I still don’t understand how nobody realizes that the guy is a packaged product. But he’s also a dangerous package. Up to now all that he’s done is:

The saddest thing of all is that he appears in the media six hours a day transmitting an image of direction and management. I’m telling you that even Telerman (Ottonote, the previous mayor of Buenos Aires, known for his relaxed attitude) did more than him. At least Telerman fixed pavements and gave out domestic refuse containers without raising taxes.

I could go on and on about this idiot but I’d get boring. The Duhalde/Macri/De Narvaez association scares me, frankly, but it looks like it’s going to be the future.

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*President at the time of the 2001 crisis. Famous for being dust dry.

**Explanation from Porteño himself: “Francisco de Narváez is a businessman who made his fortune in the 1990s. After the 2002 crisis he started in politics with a discourse based on crime/security. In the same way as Mauricio he spends a lot of money on propaganda and has smart people as political advisors. His slogan is very good; “Knowledge brings safety”. Thus he pushes his “grand project, the “safety map”. His speeches are aimed at the typical scared middle class.”