One doesn't know whether to curse them or thank them: After nine months of flooding, the national government reacted to the tragedy and promised

Nine months have passed since the floods in a large portion of the northern Province of Buenos Aires isolated and complicated the lives of many rural towns and their agricultural producers. Nine months have passed, since last March, in which this everyday tragedy was made invisible by the different factions of Argentine politics, more concerned with the elections than anything else. The flooded area grew alongside the authorities' disinterest: from 900 thousand affected hectares it grew to more than 4.7 million hectares, according to estimates from the Cereal Exchange. During nine months no provincial or national authority took charge of the situation. Rather, they ignored it and deliberately silenced any of its echoes. But now, surprisingly, when the election placed him as the clear winner in the electoral contest ten days ago, the government of Javier Milei decided to come to the rescue of the flooded areas, with a large operation that will have as its first objective the ...