"Those who do not want the state to support culture want a worse town," said Max Aguirre

The cartoonist and singer Max Aguirre reflected on the importance of culture and public policies to strengthen it in the face of the proposals of the presidential candidate Javier Milei to close the Ministry of Culture: “Culture is important to understand each other and give meaning. Even the bills, instead of being little white rectangles, are papers full of ornaments, full of symbols, full of culture." Then he pointed out: "Without culture we would be less human and without supporting culture as well. Those who do not want cultural policies and that the state supports culture are making a cultural policy, the worst of all. It is neither candid nor brutish, nor with good will because they are deciding that we do not have it, because a people without culture is a worse people”.

The creator of "Eloísa" and "Alina y Aroldo" who represented the country in Spain at the "Celsius Festival" in Avilés and "Semana Negra de Gijón" analyzed: "Culture explains who we are, what we are part of and where we are. It makes us feel our own in some places and makes us understand that we are alien in others and it is what builds our sensitive part. Many years ago, there in the cave, although there was the hunter who went out to look for sustenance to put an end to that terrible monster that is hunger". "There was also the other one who made drawings on the walls of the cave and narrated stories for transform that hunter into a hero, to make everyone who was there feel part of something, part of a community and find meaning in ending that other great monster that is fear”, he added.

The Buenos Aires artist explained: "Although it seems that the only logic is that of business where everything is measured in profit and loss in economic and financial terms, culture has other gains and other losses because it responds to important issues that are not necessarily the same ones that respond to important businesses". "It is always a profit to spread cultural facts that the market may not be interested in because they don't give you the numbers, but that have a great value from an artistic point of view and it is important at the same time to support and disseminate certain authors who are not lost in time because fashion is not choosing them, since it would be a loss of idiosyncrasy and of our heritage as a people”, concluded Aguirre.