When Alberto Fernández assumed the Argentine presidency on behalf of Cristina Fernández, it took 69 pesos to purchase a blue greenback. 4 years later, when he left, it took 990 pesos to purchase the identical. Alberto is aware of very nicely what an financial devaluation is. To not point out the political devaluation to which his mentor subjected him for 4 years.
However yesterday he acquired a 3rd devaluation, maybe sudden. The Venezuelan autocrat Nicolás Maduro –who’s going to elections on Sunday- despatched him a letter wherein he doesn’t invite him to take part as an electoral observer within the elections. Alberto had already packed his luggage. The Nationwide Electoral Council of Venezuela, an appendage of Maduro, had invited him together with different supporters of Chavismo to journey to Caracas to certify that the elections –wherein Maduro will almost certainly commit a huge fraud- are clear. Maduro was left with fewer and fewer folks with any weight to assist his electoral frauds. Now the Electoral Council informed him to not go as a result of there are “doubts” about Alberto Fernández’s impartiality. By the best way, this proposal is an Olympic take a look at of how the Chavista regime manipulates issues.
Poor Alberto. As in nearly all the pieces, he did all the pieces attainable to make himself preferred by Maduro; he needed to present himself to be a Bolivarian to calm probably the most radical Kirchnerism. As quickly as he took workplace, he disowned the ambassador that had been assigned to Argentina by the president who had been appointed by the Venezuelan Congress within the fingers of the opposition within the face of a Maduro who had been elected in different utterly fraudulent elections after violating the Structure, the electoral code and disavowing the identical Congress. Then he arrange a discussion board for Bolivarian protection with the Mexican López Obrador and a small group of small Caribbean international locations financed by Maduro. However it was clear that he didn’t agree with Maduroism in any respect. That’s what occurred to him with all the pieces: all the time attempting to be one thing else, till he didn’t even know which facet of issues he was on.
Yesterday, Alberto tried to provide himself a badge that no person acknowledges him for. He mentioned that the disinvitation was as a result of he was interviewed and mentioned that “if Maduro is defeated, what he has to do is settle for the outcomes.” And he added that, for him, Venezuelans should have thought “that this coincidence with what Lula had mentioned generated a sort of destabilization of the electoral course of.” In different phrases: he has an identical weight to Lula and may destabilize one thing.
Poor Alberto, they invite him to play soccer however then not even the worst staff places him on the substitute bench.
There’s nonetheless a protracted approach to go earlier than we a minimum of in Argentina acknowledge the one good factor he did: refusing to take over the judiciary to ensure Cristina’s impunity, which was the one actual goal that the previous president had demanded of him. Sooner or later we are going to.
