The sky of Buenos Aires showed unusual colors yesterday. A rainbow colored cloud crossed the sky but it was not (as far as I know) a divine sign but an optical phenomenon known as iridescence caused mainly by ice crystals high up in the atmosphere. The phenomenon was visible around the area where I reside but I could not see it in its natural form. I had to wait for the inevitable social media and television versions of it. Quite a pretty view for the dwellers of a city that has seen too many sad and disgusting things lately.

Argentina will have a new President-elect by Monday morning if all goes well with the Sunday general elections. My prediction is that Javier Milei is going to steamroll his opponents and there will be no second round. I am no fan of Mr. Milei but the other two candidates are rather pitiful examples of what Argentine politics have to offer.

My skin in the game: I would like the Peronist coalition arrive third or fourth if possible. Many wonder how the Peronist dinosaur manages to seduce so many voters; in particular, those voters the Peronist system has oppressed and impoverish over decades of presiding “la máquina de impedir” (the impediment machine) —as I write this my computer announces a sudden interruption of internet service 🙂— that has transformed a vibrant culture of individual achievement, cultural excellence and a splendid economy into this dwarf with an enormous head that cannot even feed itself in spite of producing food for 480 million people.

One can easily predict chaos visiting the country. I hope it does not happen. But with 400 billion plus foreign debt, a brutal 70% tax on exports,  a flaccid monetary sign, and 50% of the population mired in poverty, there is not much room for hope.

Japan, Germany, South Korea arrived to 1945 in a pitiful state. While those nations recovered from their war wounds, healthy Argentina wounded herself over and over into the pitiful state she finds herself now. At postwar time, Argentina already had been declining for many years (more or less since 1916) when the disease arrived: endemic inflation, growing foreign debt, expanding state expenditures, reckless mismanagement, and a definite decline in public morals that turned every part of government into a stealing enterprise. Sounds familiar?

Well, what certain countries in North America are going through right now, Argentina went through in the 1960’s. In corruption matters we are ahead of the pack by half a century. Take a look down south and learn what your future is going to be if you do not start acting like the adults in the planet.

But Argentina is not finished. She has a bright future ahead of her because the current leading class is busy committing political suicide. They cannot stop stealing and to steal they have to oppress their own people. The people are tired, overworked, underpaid, underfed, undereducated and a number of other “under” in fact one can say they’re down to their undies and struggling to buy decent clothes. The time of reckoning is quickly approaching as the ruling political class experience what the Soviet nomenklatura experienced after 90 years of failing Socialism.

The first pseudo-Socialist government was elected here in 1916. If Argentines knew their own history they would quickly reject the current dystopia and return to the principles that catapulted this country from anarchy to being one of the top economies in the world. But Argentines now are a people with no past and no future. Argentines  ignore their own yesterday, they are not interested in their own history. A country in such a state cannot have a future. There is no light from the past to illuminate the road ahead. The future will happen but it won’t be chosen, it won’t be forged. It will come upon us as inevitably as the night in the wide Pampas. Ugo Ojetti (1871-1946) commented once to Indro Montanelli (1909-2001) the following:

“Haven’t you understood yet that Italy is country of contemporaries without ancestors or posterity because it lacks memory?”

The same can be said of Argentina, that in so many ways was ushered into the 20th century by Mother Italy.  Argentina ignores her true ancestry and her true history. Until that darkness is removed there will be no posterity worth living and dying for.

The elements are there to recover the Old Argentine Order but the country has to gain conscience of itself just like the other countries in the world have to wake up and face this junction in history with eyes wide open.

I think God will cause everyone to look up to Heaven. It will be a rude awakening into what human life should really be. This old world is crumbling because the Kingdom of God is coming. These “pangs of distress” are the sign that the baby is about to be born.