In a society frequently tempted by immediacy and the culture of "success or nothing," the path taken by our national team in high-level competition leaves us a lesson that goes far beyond sport: the urgent need to revalue the culture of effort and respect for processes.
In high-performance sport, as in institutional and professional life, results are not the product of chance or a stroke of luck, but of sustained discipline, teamwork, planning and resilience in the face of adversity.
Knowing how to compete at the world elite level requires accepting that the opponent also plays and that defeat is a real possibility. However, when everything has been given with honesty, rigor and commitment, defeat is not a failure but another stage in the learning process.
Argentina needs to recover the mystique of constant work over shortcuts. To vindicate merit, reward perseverance and understand that great personal or collective projects require time, method and, above all, the composure not to give up at the first obstacle.
That is, perhaps, the true triumph this team leaves us: a mirror in which to look at ourselves and understand that the only noble path to excellence is that of daily effort.
Francisco Sciaky franciscosciaky@gmail.com
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"A country is not a business that shuts its doors"
The Government is studying the idea of importing the American shutdown model: closing part of the State when the budget or politics come into conflict.
But a country is not a business that shuts its doors. Food must continue to be inspected. Medicines, regulated. Borders, monitored. Industry needs someone to certify that a scale weighs what it claims to weigh, that a fuel pump delivers the fuel it charges for and that a product meets safety standards.
There are INTI, INTA, Senasa, ANMAT, the National Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies that rarely make the front page, but intervene every day in the lives of millions of Argentines. Should they be reviewed, modernized and made accountable? Of course. But eliminating useless spending is one thing, and abandoning a necessary function is quite another.
Argentina tends to copy the consequences and forget the safeguards. The American shutdown responds to a different constitutional, budgetary and labor system. Importing it without accounting for those differences would be like bringing an umbrella from Washington to face a flood in Buenos Aires.
Austerity may be necessary. Intelligence too. Because when the State abandons oversight, someone else fills that space. And almost never to look after the citizen. Switching off an office takes a second. The hard part will be explaining who will take responsibility when accountability is switched off as well.
Liliana Cánaves canavesliliana@gmail.com
President Milei's insults toward Lula Da Silva
Brazil is our main trading partner and ally for the major agreement with Europeans. Brazil and Peru were the only two countries that supported us over the Malvinas. Relations between countries are strategic and always respond to the interests of each nation, regardless of who is in government. If we were to evaluate the conduct of our own Justice system and the criminals who have plundered this country — many of whom continue to do so — the labels Milei applied to Lula might well splash back onto him.
It is time to be serious and set aside crazy ideologies in order to impose balance and pragmatism. It is also time to grow up or consult a psychologist. Brazil is our brother — except in football — and has no territorial pretensions over our country, or over oil, lithium or gas. Enough nonsense.
Esteban Tortarolo etortarolo@gmail.com
"The message all Argentinians need to hear"
The blunder by presidential spokesperson Adrián Ravier caused unease within the Government when he announced that the dollar could climb to 1,800 pesos. He also claimed that all economic sectors are recovering — another mistake that official figures contradict. It is regrettable that Ravier is undermining credibility at a time when trust is the most important asset LLA needs. Adding to this is Luis Caputo celebrating a drop of a few tenths of a point in the CPI. He should be concerned because inflation has persisted above 30% annually for more than a year and millions of Argentinians cannot meet their most basic needs.
Conclusion: officials fail to understand that society will not accept unfounded optimistic statements or celebrations, and demands only coherence. We suffered Kirchnerist demagoguery and corruption. I thought that with Javier Milei the economic failure would come to an end. Today, the official agenda is focused on how to approach the elections, and the right political signal would be to sincerely acknowledge the difficulties they face in resolving the legacy they inherited — and that the Government needs more time and more effort to consolidate legal certainty, drive the economy, investment and employment, and above all, promote well-being, because democracy is not truly democracy if all 47 million Argentinians do not benefit from it.
Matías Aníbal Rossi matiasrossi2014@gmail.com
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