For the first time, a few days after completing five months in charge of the national government, the Libertad Avanza was afraid of carrying out a massive event. The mobilization of this May 1st organized by the CGT; the general strike that will take place on Thursday the 9th; all caused by the adjustment carried out by the Casa Rosada caused the social climate is increasingly tense. This was the argument used Milei to suspend the presentation of his book scheduled in the open-air venue of the Book Fair that takes place in Rural. The President took advantage and victimized himself by stating that ““There is a level of hostility to him.” and blamed Kirchnerism for this situation. Those around them added, in dialogue with this newspaper, that “the security conditions were not in place” to carry out the event and that was “a boycott of the presentation by the fair authorities, who are Kirchnerists.” In the end they chose to do the act but in a closed place. The chosen one is Luna Park.
At first think about the Kirchner Cultural Center, but then they decided on the traditional Luna Park. The president’s sister and general secretary of the presidency, Karina Mileiis still finishing defining the location with the deputy José Luis Espert. He will be in charge of accompanying the President during the presentation of the book called “Capitalism, Socialism and the Neoclassical Trap.” Each copy will cost around 30 thousand pesos.
“The Kirchnerist plot seems absurd to us. There is no basis. One can have many votes or many likes on social networks, but it is very different from people going to an event. Maybe they saw that, decided to back down and blamed us,” said the president of the El Libro foundation. Alejandro Vaccaroafter the reason why Milei declined to make her presentation at La Rural became known.
The day before Milei’s statements – he made the announcement on Wednesday during an interview he gave to driver Luis Majul – The Casa Rosada teams commanded by Karina Milei had been on the Fair grounds, located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, coordinating the entire Security operation for next Sunday. There were about 25 people from a private production company along with staff from Military House –in charge of presidential security– and, together with the Fair authorities, toured the grounds and agreed on logistical issues. They even agreed on how the security fences would be placed, among other technical issues.
However, this Wednesday the organizers of the Fair were surprised when the president came out to say on a radio program that: “We are not going to present it at the Book Fair because my sister is carrying out this negotiation and there is a level of hostility towards me and towards our people that makes us suspect that there is an attempt to sabotage the presentation and do it, let’s say, in the Kirchnerist style, in a violent way.”
Then, Milei added that “we have to take certain precautions because we cannot expose ourselves to being blocked,” and fired shots trying, once again, to discredit the culture sector: “They are encouraging behavior inappropriate to the culture, unless Argentine culture is to attack and insult those who think differently”, said. The President clarified that the new place for the presentation has not “yet” been defined, but he did confirm that he will do it with José Luis Espert: “the presentation has a part where I tell what the book is, the fundamentals, and with José Luis we discuss the application to politics, because the book is called From Economic Theory to Political Action”.
“He spoke of baseless threats. We said that the Nation did not want to participate in the fair and that wanting to use the space as a showcase seemed like a contradiction to usbut nothing more,” said Vaccaro in dialogue with C5N and said that from the presidency “from the start they stated that they wanted to do the presentation on the track, with giant screens.” “That has nothing to do with the presentation of a book, but with a show and that organization exceeds us,” he explained. Then, he said that “if that means a Kirchnerist plot, it seems absurd to us.” The president of the Book Foundation recalled that in previous editions of the Fair they received Milei himself to present other of his books and clarified: “Everyone is welcome to the Fair. Here are all the ideas and religions. “I keep insisting that he come, we invite him.”
The LLA deputy, Lilia LemoineAfter Vaccaro’s response, he published messages on his social networks that added fuel to the fire. He wrote: “The one who is against culture is the director of the book fair, who walks around C5N attacking Milei. The Book Fair is an event hostage to cultural Marxism. Like many others years ago, the left hides there and uses culture, artists and students as a shield.” The Undersecretary of Press of the Nation, Javier Lanarimeanwhile, was not far behind and shared old newspaper headlines in which they spoke of “insults to Macri at the book fair” and wrote: “Then some are surprised (and even offended) when we say that Kirchnerism turned the Book Fair in a grandstand of hooligans”.
