{"id":2895,"date":"2026-03-23T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogdiario.info\/magazine\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:45:05","slug":"milei-cahn-pandemic-politics-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogdiario.info\/magazine\/2026\/03\/23\/milei-cahn-pandemic-politics-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"The new plague: when politics decides who was guilty of the virus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Six years after the outbreak of Covid-19, as the world cautiously reassesses its decisions, Argentina has chosen a sharper path: to revisit the pandemic as an unfinished political conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Javier Milei\u2019s administration has labeled renowned infectious disease expert Pedro Cahn as a \u201ccentral figure of a health dictatorship.\u201d The wording is not accidental\u2014it reframes the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accusation extends beyond individuals, targeting an entire public health structure that operated under extreme uncertainty. The language is not scientific, but political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of a \u201chealth dictatorship\u201d does not describe policy\u2014it judges it. And in doing so, it transforms emergency decisions into evidence within a broader ideological narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revisiting the pandemic is legitimate. But turning that revision into retrospective blame risks reshaping collective memory into confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argentina is not alone. Across the world, the pandemic is being reinterpreted through new ideological lenses, where restrictions are recast as overreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that context, Argentina\u2019s withdrawal from the WHO aligns with a broader shift prioritizing sovereignty over global coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the contradiction remains. The country benefited for years from international health cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is at stake is no longer only what happened\u2014but who gets to define what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in that struggle, memory itself becomes the next battlefield.

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