La Tecla Asustada

By Sebastián Lacunza Editor-in-Chief Argentines are living a democracy in which words are being set apart from facts If we assume Voltaire’s premise that “a word misplaced spoils the most beautiful thought,” Argentina’s politics has not been shining for too long. Perhaps an appropriate example would be the speech by Miguel Ángel Pichetto, head of the Victory Front caucus at the Senate. Pichetto has been a key political player in Congress representing Peronism in all of its variants — right-wing populist, opposition, interim government or centre-left populist — over the last twenty years. His Wednesday evening speech in the Senate, during the debate on the holdouts bill, included memorable passages — the xenophobic tirade against the Senegalese (with previous such remarks against the Chinese, the Uruguayan and Albanian communities), his contempt for Bolivia, his open admission that he loses his ability to have critical thought when he serves a ruling par