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Pancho, our peronist Pope

Until a few years ago the citizens of Peronia were famous for something they know how to do very well playing football, survive inflationary crises, and since the proclamation of Pancho as pope they are now also known for this fact. Bergoglio has been very controversial in his speeches and in his way of approaching international politics, he has been received as a lover of  human rights, but rejected some people that come from countries where the most common thing is precisely having their rights violated. What is his scale of values? 
 It is not surprising that Bergoglio has a very critical stance towards capitalism, competition, the free market, individual freedom and the pursuit of our own ends. He always makes us see he condemns private initiative and boosts that so common word in Peronia: social justice. 
 Social justice is a very trendy word in Peronia, encompasses everything that is "right" and at the same time does not define what is justice or what part of s...

A Normal Day in Peronia

In a forgotten continent called America, just to the south, almost closer to the ocean, is Peronia. Peronia has existed since 1946, when a soldier along with trade unionists took the presidency as a hostage. From then until today, the citizens of Peronia continue to follow the same rules: high controls that regulate life, inflation, impossibility to invest in the long term, and are forced to save on their devalued currency: the peso. I write just before the general strike, unions organized to stop the country, ordinary citizens will not receive tomorrow's salary, if they are forced to work they will have to pay triple or more to be able to move to their jobs and then return home. Since today the day has been complicated, the ATMs crowded with people, want to have cash, yes, for these citizens is essential in case they can not pay with debit or credit card, yes, in a world where electronic transfers and bitcoin already exists as currency. I went to a hotel in...