Argentina Mourns an Honest Man

Dear Andrew,
I have been wondering about whether to right this comment or not because I think this article doesn’t match at all with the line of your very good blog.
I guess nobody commented this article because Raúl Alfonsín was one of the worst Argentina presidents ever. Not only in the economic area (hiperinflation, poverty, long etceteras) but more important, in moral aspects. He was an enemy of the Catholic Church and in this line he promoted the divorce law.
Furthermore, he was the head of the Unión Cívica Radical, a tradicional anticlerical political party.
I think we must not get mixed up with the amount of people that mourned him at his death. It was politically correct to do so since he was the epitome of the “fashionable” left in Argentina.
Finally, Mons. Laguna is not precisely the representative of conservatism.
All the best

Dear Mr Cusack,
many of items commented by Mr. Novillo Astrada are certainly true. Alfonsín was -during his ruling years- an arrogant politician, leading a political party that -even nowadays- considers itself as the moral reserve of Argentina. Years and failures -among them, the Pact of Olivos- turned him into a tender old man dressed by a warm light feeded by his unconditional supporters and helped by his rural manners. Opponent of the Catholic Church? Yes, in extremis.
But people who mourned him at his death wasn’t politically correct or fashionable: I think that was an instinctive and desperate cry . . . the political class that survived him is such a gang of common criminals!

Alfonsin was a freemason too.

Since 1983, Argentina it’s been the materialization of that old muddy water’s song “like a rolling stone”. Alfonsin was… just an other contributor, and maybe a headchief for a few years of that “lie” called democracy.