Javier Milei first tried with the ghost of Communism, but in a country where Communism has never held any real sway, that fear never took root. That’s why, in recent times, he’s been stirring up fear with the idea of the “Riesgo Kuka” – that one worked.
The Riesgo Kuka would be the local version of the supposed communist advance which, according to President Milei, is sweeping across the world and which, in Argentina, has allegedly co-opted Peronism and politicians such as Horacio Rodríguez Larreta – among other Marxists lying in wait within the ranks of Macrismo, Radicalism and other parties.
What we’re talking about is an updated version of the historic fear of Peronism that, for decades, has permeated the middle and upper-middle sectors of society. It’s the fear of the advance of the lower and lower-middle classes that Peronism has historically represented, which are seen as a threat to their rights and way of life.
Just as Peronism reads the past to explain the present according to its needs and occasional enemies, anti-Peronism has been in construction since the 1950s, a ghost that has changed over time but still p
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