“They say respect the government, but the government does not respect me “. “Who fights is not dead.” “That the unfair is not indifferent to you.” A crowd populated the streets of the Argentine capital with its songs, flags and posters to repudiate the homophobic, anti -immigrant discourse and against the gender policies of the president of the ultra -right Javier Milei. The “Federal anti -fascist and anti -racist march” He gathered in the streets of 130 cities in this country to the LGBTQ+community, opposition leaders, trade unionists and intellectuals who marched under an imposized sun from Congress to the vicinity of the headquarters of the Executive Power. The recent speech of the capitalist Anarco in the Davos Economic Forum brought together a varied opposition arch. “You don’t need to be LGBTIQ+ to march“It was one of the slogans that motorized the response in public space.
Milei radicalized his intolerant speeches from the arrival at the White House of Donald Trump. In Davos and in front of a dumbfounded audience, the television extermination spoke of Wok culture as a “Virus” and a “cancer to be removed”. He in turn questioned the forums where “the LGBT agenda is promoted, wanting to impose that women are men and men are women only if they self -perceive.” Since his arrival at the presidency, Milei has sexualized his address. Masturbation, anal sex, tantric sex, Pornography became part of their interventions. In Davos he not only defended the “innocent greeting” of Elon Musk but established a causal relationship between homosexuality and child abuse. “They are pedophiles, therefore, I want to know who supports those behaviors.”
The words of the ultra -rightist caused a strong revulsive effect in Buenos Aires, for their non -foundation generalizations and the false data that are part of a communicational style since December 10, 2024. First the LGBTIQ+ and feminist groups reacted, then the intellectual community and Immediately a diverse political arc. Even pop stars Lali Espósito and María Becerra They joined the call from which thousands and thousands of people participated throughout the territory. “Stop Being Facho,” said Taichu’s jacket, another youth celebrity. They also protests in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Lisbon and Amsterdam, such as Santiago de Chile, the river of Janeiro San Paulo, Montevideo, New York and Mexico City.
“Cultural Battle”
The ultra -right is considered a “cultural battle” that leads her to fly her sword in all stands and in the state: on the eve of the mobilization, she assured that she proposes Eliminate the figure of femicide from the Criminal Code. Government ministers only emulate the capitalist anarco. Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona, who came to participate in the defense of former Peronist governor José Alperovich, convicted of sexual abuse of his niece, called to defend the family because “it is the center of education and society.” Gender policy, he said, is very negative. “I don’t think the State is to promote any of those things. From the doors of the house inside, each one can do what it seems but, within the obligations of the State, to come to promote activities of this nature, it seems to me that they do not have to enter, ”said Interior Minister, Guillermo Francos. A man set fire to a couple of lesbian women in the Buenos Aires town of Cañuelas. The flames did not cause victims because there was no one inside the house.
Milei’s rhetorical virulence goes against his own strategic interests, according to Carlos Pagni, columnist of the newspaper ´La ‘. Trump has appointed as Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, who “attended the session in which the American Senate approved his designation accompanied by her husband, John Freeman, and Cole, one of the two children of both.” He added: Besent may profess the “gender ideology” that Milei condemned in Switzerland.
Official indifference
The presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, tried to subtract importance from the mobilizations. “It will be a clear sign of how politics created a fiction just to be on the street in the election year,” he said. Beyond the mass expressed in the streets, the government believes that it has the political situation under control, as happened months ago with the massive university protests. According to the ISASI/Burdman consultant, Milei has a positive image above 50%. Neither the adjustment or privatizations, the destruction of social plans and institutions of culture, the decrease of the budget to education and scientific research, have caused a decrease of presidential popularity. The reduction of inflation, That at the end of 2023 it was 25% monthly and is currently 3%, it is, more than a year of management the political capital that allows you to imagine a victory of the ultra -right in the October parliamentary elections.
The question asked by analysts is whether these massive protests can constitute a turning point that avoids the electoral result that the consultants predict. A large group of intellectuals and artists called on “Formation of a civil action and collective reflection space, A multicolored, diverse and democratic front, in defense of our public goods, our natural assets and territories, our historical memory, our freedom and our democracy “to face Milei.
