I tend to talk about this with my friends but not so much on this blog, but i want to raise awareness to the people who enjoy my posts and want to know more about me. I prefer not talking much about personal things online. But I think the world cup is a good oportunity to raise awareness of this in case you dont live in south america and/or dont know much about geopolitics. I'm not an expert so i also encourage people to help me out with this if there's something im wording wrongly.
Like many countries in south america, Argentina is being governed by an alt-right president who openly denies the militar coups that happened in the country, has said tons of anti-human rights, anti LGBT and racist things, and among many other things doesn't defend the people of malvinas.
Because of geopolitical interests, the country is being marketed as "white and zionist" by many paid hacker/bot accounts and wide spread misinformation campaigns. (I want to link better sources here later)
I ask you to please consider before spreading this misinformation that when saying this, people are repeating a racist and xenophobic message that only helps and benefits a narrative which Milei and extreme alt-right people wish was true.
Defending Malvinas has been historically tied with anti-colonialism here. People who defend Malvinas, also empathize greatly with Palestinians reclaiming their territory from Israeli occupation. Argentina has historically support their rights to their land in UN votes. This is why Milei was so uncomfortable with the country showing Malvinas flags during the world cup. I'm short, his support for Israel also means he doesn't align with this historical UN positioning that both defended Malvinas and supported Palestine. ( X )
(Something that's also not being talked about much is that in Buenos Aires the government has been constantly deploying militarised cops to stop the celebrations of the world cup and repressing the people's celebrations. There's a deeply anti-patriotic* colonialist feeling tied to Milei's government.)
Milei has been governing through "DNU"s (an "urgency risk" type of decree that lets him skip steps to constitutionally abid laws) and doing tons of sketchy things that not only work agaisnt the country's insterests but straight up oppose them. He has even been seen reblogging posts about bombing the country via twitter. This group of politicians is extremely sketchy and it only makes sense they are where they are today because of external economic incentives. I really recommend people look up operation condor if you aren't familiar with south american coups.
I'm more familiar with my own country's issues, but I know Chile is experiencing this same fear where billionares (within them, Israeli and USA enterprises) want huge extensions of land in Patagonia to keep these resources. These alt-right governments only facilitate the process of "legalising" the extraction of the land via forcefully breaking previously settled constitutional laws against it.
By repeating the idea that the people of Argentina are only white and zionists, other countries are only isolating the local population who has been fighting against this and whom are dealing with nonstop violence and starvation policies this government has been slowly implementing since it began. (Think of this as saying a country with no LGBT laws = there's no LGBT people in that place.) That is only what the power wants you to see.
They wish everyone forgets about the Indigenous and Black population living in Argentina so no one looks for them when the government does things like letting native land burn illegally (to give it for pennies to these big enterprises), or incentivize violence against the population (Milei has been calling any dissidence terrorists and tons of degrading violent terminology, he has been targeting environmentalist and minorities a lot too.)
I hope this can help at least a little bit to give people a different point of view than the one being spread which is honestly scary for us. I'm trying to be brief so I'm sorry if I'm not addressing all of the problems but I think it's really important for people to look out for this. If not for my country for the future of Latin America.
I also invite other Argentinian people to talk about these issues in the comments with the intention of spreading information. I'll try linking to more information as time passes but I wanted to publish this while the cup was still going.
*nationalism in Argentina is not tied to a race in the same way European countries may be. Here you are invited to join the country, we want to be open and receive anyone who steps on Argentina ground. (I may be wording this oddly but I think it's important to mention this because we tend to be really patriotic, but it's usually in reference to this "we are independent!" feeling rather than a "race". Thus, anti-patriotic messages may read as colonial endorsing.)
yousharknotpass
tangentwithtanner
theartofmadeline
origamiaround
snowghoul
discoholicmusic
areudirty
