Blowing up the Central Bank and creating an organ sales market ended up being fantasies without a future in the “Milei world”, but some of the libertarians who support the president of Argentina do not exhaust the capacity for astonishment. Nor for horror: the latest hit aims to sterilize millions of people, eliminate them with snipers, or simply spray them with napalm.
“I have a series of proposals. The first is sterilization, I liked that one. That one is very good. Probably the calmest of the three.”
The speaker is Alejandro Sarubbi, a lawyer with his own program on the emblem of the streaming channels of Milei supporters, Carajo Sarubbi is a lawyer and is obsessed with the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, the outskirts surrounding the city of Buenos Aires that administratively belongs to the province of Buenos Aires. The sum of Argentina’s capital and that vast urban conglomerate, known as AMBA (Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires), is the most populated area in the country: 16.4 million inhabitants, 35 percent of Argentina’s total. It is the richest and poorest area at the same time, and also the great vote granary of Peronism.
THE “WALL”
In the city of Buenos Aires, with 3.1 million inhabitants, the standard of living is among the highest in the country, services work, and crime is relatively low. But if you cross Avenida General Paz, a highway that surrounds the capital, or the Riachuelo, a dead and polluted river that flows into the Río de la Plata, that outlook rapidly deteriorates, especially towards the west and south. It is on that basis that the current mayor of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, cousin of the former president, is promoting a campaign with demagogic and ‘Bukelian’ tones that talks about creating a “wall” to protect the porteños.
And it is also on that basis that Sarubbi speaks, who is already criminally sued before the Argentine Justice. “The Province of Buenos Aires, especially everything related to the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, has no salvation. There is no return there anymore. Whatever happens, whoever wins, it will continue to be the same,” he said at the beginning of La Trinchera, the program he presents on Carajo.
“I have a series of proposals. The first is sterilization, I liked that one. That one is very good. Probably the calmest of the three,” Sarubbi said while Kalina Ann, the co-host, pointed out with a giggle that “it depended on the method (of sterilization).” Then, Kalina Ann showed a card with different shades of color and pointed to white, implying that only they would have rights. Laughter and a festive atmosphere accompanied the insinuation.
The outskirts of Buenos Aires have a significant percentage of citizens from other provinces, many of which have a much stronger indigenous imprint than Buenos Aires. Decades ago, Eva Perón spoke of the “black heads” she wanted to care for and defend. Many generations later, the discriminatory discourse with Nazi roots runs rampant. Listen, if not, to Sarubbi, who holds a law degree.
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“I would fence off the entire Buenos Aires metropolitan area, build a 15-meter-high wall with snipers so that no one can cross, besides. Obviously, I would give the possibility not to stay there, but with face identification. It would be totally arbitrary to say who passes and who does not.”
“If for budgetary reasons building that wall is very expensive and if there is no money to maintain the snipers because there would have to be at least one every 10 meters, I directly propose expelling the province of Buenos Aires from the national territory, let them make their own country with alcohol and prostitutes,” added Sarubbi evoking Futurama, the series by Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. Spurred on by the laughter of his colleagues in the studio and without the slightest trace of astonishment or horror from any of them, Sarubbi launched his final proposal. The final solution.
A CRUEL WEAPON
“And the third one might at first seem a bit expensive budget-wise, but actually it is not. In fact, it is quite economical proportionally, which is to drop napalm from planes every morning. I think that could be a pretty interesting option.” Napalm was used in World War II, especially against Japan, and in the Vietnam War. It is a cruel weapon, it sticks to the human body and causes horrible burns and asphyxiation. Its use has been strongly limited since 1980 by the Convention on Conventional Weapons, but it is clear that in Carajo they would not have signed it.
Neither Sarubbi Benítez nor Kalina Ann responded to Crónica when asked to explain what happened on the program. The Milei government, whose members, including the president himself, are frequent visitors and interviewees on Carajo, also did not comment. The Argentine justice system has work ahead, because Sarubbi was reported for violating the Anti-Discrimination Law, but there is progress towards the possibility of sending him to trial for possible crimes such as incitement to collective violence, instigation to commit crimes, and glorification of crime.
Sarubbi is the lawyer of Daniel Parisini, a doctor who calls himself Gordo Dan and who functions as a kind of communication shock force for the libertarians.
Ultimately, the idea that Sarubbi is a marginal figure of Mileism does not hold: he belongs to Las Fuerzas del Cielo, the current of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) that references Santiago Caputo, the main advisor and ideological and communicational support of the Milei government.
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