Politics gets people excited in many countries. Poland or Argentina are no different - it seems like either you are patriotic or leftist, or something like that. While in Patagonia and when asking people here about current Argentinian President, Ms Cristina Kirchner, I hoped to get some type of reaction. In the end she is officially from Santa Cruz, one of Patagonia's states. But then people talked unwillingly... I know very little about Argentinian politics but internal divisions seem to go the long way - Unitarists vs. Federalists, Buenos Aires people vs. country folk, peronists, corporatists and it is difficult to figure out who's who, at least for an outsider.
I only remember when in 2009, Juan Martin del Potro, Argentinian tennis player, following his US Open win (to my sadness he beat Federer) declined to meet the President - officially agendas were to busy, but unofficially he refused to attend the meeting as he comes from a rural area where Ms Kirchner was not really liked. I thought being from Santa Cruz counts as rural, but apparently, as I was told, it is more complicated than that and it is studying in Buenos Aires and owning land that really defines your allegiance. And local graffiti does not help:
Argetina's politically so desperate that even its most talented political son, leftist of course and Che by his nom de guerre, went prodigal. Or is being prodigal already in the nature of leftists?
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