Uruguay: Hey, People!

 “What if it rains?” asked the advisors to the new Uruguayan President Mujica who chose an outdoors inauguration. “No problem, we will all get wet.” Part old left militant, part tired grand-pa who knows better than fighting for impossible causes, Mujica addressed today Uruguayans with a spontaneous family tone, not making a fuss because the world has changed. He mostly explained in advance to his people that he will look for investments in the first place and that his goal is to create wealth, because if there is no wealth, nothing can be distributed. A simple sentence to end more than thirty years of a stubborn socialism who got it wrong thinking that fighting capitalism means to struggle against poverty.

Mujica got the applauses from his less witty colleagues, Chávez, Correa, Evo Morales and also from the Kirchners, who started the day making their will with the Central Bank, swindling the same Congress they were pretending to consider.  It’s doubtful the straightforward Mujica will inspire any of them.

The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, delivered sincere American greetings to the new Uruguayan President and, on her way to Chile, to bring help and relief to the afflicted country after the earthquake, she will spend the evening and night in Buenos Aires. Hopefully, she will have some time to meet the powers that still represent a legal democracy in Argentina, the Congress and the Supreme Court, besides meeting an Executive Power which persists avoiding the law and shouldn’t be rewarded with any special attention but the greatest coldness of contempt.