Love Quote by Nestor Kirchner

A president publicly begging supermarkets not to raise prices is politics stripped down to its most revealing paradox: the state that wants to look in control, speaking in the language of a pleading neighbor. Kirchner’s line leans hard on moral theater. “We ask from the heart” recasts economic policy as a matter of decency, not regulation. It’s a rhetorical move that lets him sound compassionate while dodging the admission that formal price controls, credible anti-inflation policy, or enforcement mechanisms either aren’t available or aren’t working.

The phrase “now more profitable and selling more” sets up a neat villain-victim geometry. If retailers are thriving, the story goes, they can afford restraint; if prices rise, it’s not macroeconomics, it’s greed. That’s the subtext: inflation is being narrativized as a choice made by powerful actors, not a systemic outcome of monetary policy, supply constraints, currency pressure, or expectations. It’s also a calculated attempt to shift accountability. When households feel the squeeze, blame can be redirected toward private sector “speculators,” a familiar Argentine script.

“Take care of the pocketbook of the people” is populist phrasing with a specific target: middle- and working-class consumers watching wages chase prices. Kirchner is signaling alignment with them while simultaneously communicating to business that the administration is watching, even if it’s speaking softly. In the Argentina of the 2000s - post-crisis recovery, rapid growth, and persistent inflation anxieties - this kind of appeal functioned as both reassurance and warning: cooperate voluntarily, or invite harder intervention later.