There is no age for the “cultural battle”: in Argentina, a children’s television channel will soon transmit an lively cartoon that promote capitalism, stigmatizing the State and citing economists loved by Ultraliberal President Javier Milei, which arouses fears of indoctrination.
Paka Paka (“Hide and Seek” in Quechua) is a chain released in 2010 by the Peronist (left-left) government of Cristina Kircher, aimed at children up to 11-12 years, mixing entertainment and educational content. Like other public media, the chain has been in the sights of the Milei government, in power since the late 2023 and whose ambition is to privatize them, or even close them as the Telam News Agency in 2024. But the promotion of privatization is arrested at the moment in Parliament, Paka Paka has announced its revive with a new program for July.
In addition to classics such as “Dragon Ball”, it will transmit an American cartoon called “Tuttle Twins” (“Les Jumeaux Tuttle” in French). The series follows the adventures of the twins Ethan and Emily, who travel in time with their grandmother, to meet liberal and ultra -liberal thinkers and economists, such as Milton Friedman or Ludwig von Mises, two fetish references of “anarcococapitalista” Javier Milei.
Bitty Bitcoin
During the episodes, Ethan and Emily explore, or “explain”, the scourge of Leviathan’s staff, the limits of higher education, the dangers of the monetary program: “Governments began to print money out of nowhere, billions, and in the end inflation causes their purchases to no longer pay.”
Or they find a “the bitcoin” understanding “that praises the merits of cryptocurrencies because” when the money is controlled (by the state), it is corrupt! “.
From time to time, they meet Karl Marx, they became ridiculous and who continues to ask for money. Or learn the difference between a “right” and a “necessity”, another antiphon by Javier Milei: “They all need food, water and a refuge to survive. But the need does not give the right to have it.”
“It is the only liberal cartoon in the world (…) is linked to the values they loved us,” he recently congratulated the director of Paka Paka, Walter Gómez, on the pro -government channel of Cenazo YouTube. Did not follow AFP requests. The “Tuttles” is a series created in 2021, taken from Books by Connor Boyack, founder of a group of libertarian experts, libertas, based in Utah. And it is proud to be “the animation project No. 1 for children in the United States financed by crowdfunding” (crowdfunding).
“Happy to announce that ‘Tuttle Twins’ will be transmitted in Paka Paka for millions of Argentine children! They replace Marxist cartoons with hilarious courses on freedom, economy and individual rights,” recently praised the X account X. The former director of the Paka Paka Valeria Derro programs mocked AFP to Program “that seems like a provocation, something very rude, without interest or interesting logic.”
“Ideological conflicts”
Cecilia Veleda, a sociologist of education, denounced a series that translates “personal obsessions” of President Milei. “Until now, these messages circulate on social networks. Now they go to the media such as children’s television seems extremely serious,” he said in the newspaper La Nación. “Children cannot be taken as hostages of ideological conflicts between adults,” he said.
On the government side, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni had suggested in 2024 changes in Paka Paka, to end “content with a high ideology, or that was oriented towards Izquierdo or Kirchnerist issues.” He went significantly to “Zamba”, a small animated character who reviewed the Argentine history. “You have to use enemy machine guns,” that is, the same channels, to spread libertarian ideas, Daniel Parisini argued, one of the influential circle near Javier Milei.
With this relentless logic, repeated in recent days at the Carajo YouTube channel. “When we teach our ideology to children, it is not indoctrination, that is, to tell the truth, because it is the truth,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
