In the United States there is the dollar. Final point. In Argentina there is the dollar. Base. There is also the blue dollar, which is sold on the streets at double the value of the first one, and the tourist dollar, for visitors’ credit cards.
And the Qatari dollar, by which the Argentine fans who went to the 2022 Soccer World Cup were governed, the luxury dollar, for very expensive goods, the soybean dollar, for grain exports, the liquid dollar, the of bank reserves, or the future dollar. , what the coin could be worth in a year.
In addition to them, the Coldplay dollar was born, specially paid to the band after 15 concerts in the country last year, the big head dollar and the small head dollar, taking into account the size of the representation of American heroes on the banknotes. . with the former, even equal to the latter, they are worth more. And the friendly dollar, as Argentines call the one that is exchanged at a good exchange rate, the Netflix dollar, the Spotify dollar.
Now, candidate Javier Milei points to dollarization (replacing, once and for all, the peso with the US currency) as a cure for Argentina’s economic ills.
What, after all, is the reason for this obsession? Javier Calvo, radio and television commentator for América 24 and former director of the newspaper Perfil explains:
“In Argentina, the dollar is not so much an import or export currency, it is a safe haven currency, the one in which we buy and sell valuable goods, such as properties and cars, due to inflation and lack of confidence in banking. . system.”
And the instability of the peso and inflation help to understand the rest.
“The only thing permanent and omnipresent in our lives is the dollar.”
In the morning, when Argentines wake up, they check the weather, traffic and the dollar. Then the day begins.
Source: TSF
