Look to Chiron, for God’s sake!

Perhaps because since Plato “the name is the archetype of the thing” – this is what Jorge Luis Borges said in The Golema memorable poem―, one of Donald Trump’s first proposals after his return to the White House has been to propose that the Gulf of Mexico be called the Gulf of America from now on.

The proposal already includes another onomastic misappropriation: the vast majority of natives and residents of the United States (about 350 million people) call their country Americaand not USAand many of them consider themselves the only ones Americansleaving the rest of the nationals of the immense continent out of the denomination: some 650 million people.

In addition to enormously worrying measures of all kinds, which represent a political, economic, social and cultural regression, the first hours of Trump’s new term as president of the United States have left us with other news that has to do with the denomination, with the names , with the name day. Trump has included Spain among the countries called BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa created in 2010 by the association formed by those countries as an alternative to the G7, the group of seven most developed countries. Was it by mistake about Trump, because he believed that the final S is from Spain? Or by strategy, because he wanted to give us a political and commercial message?

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are five large emerging economies, with so much potential that in a few decades they can become among the global dominant ones and threaten the current leadership of the United States. China, in fact, already does it. The 47th president of the United States is so concerned about the matter that he will foreseeably impose high tariffs on his products to enter the territory. American. Also to those of Spain?

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has taken the Trump thing on the wing and has gotten into a tortuous onomastic, syntactic and political communication garden: “Not all Spaniards or everyone in Spain, from then the administrations, we are not part of the BRICS nor do we want to be, a situation in which the Government has brought us due to isolation.” By mistake, because Ayuso believes that the BRICS are very dangerous leftist countries, and the b is from Bolivariansthe R of redthe Yo of unredeemedthe c of communists and the Yes of Spain? By strategy, to give one more nudge to Dog Sanchez? For both things at the same time?

As in almost all of his occurrences, behind Ayuso’s little phrase is probably his chief of staff, SEAacronym for Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. This has also been, by the way, one of the linguistic protagonists of the week. We have learned that on your mobile you have SEA scheduled for Alberto González Amador, alleged tax fraudster, commission agent in the health sector, live-in boyfriend of the Madrid president, with the significant name of Alberto Quirón.

Parenthesis with two pieces of information for the uninitiated. One: Quirón is a private health group that is doing so well with the Community of Madrid that it has multiplied by six in a decade the patients it attracts from the Madrid public health system. The second: Quirón’s payments to Alberto González Amador have multiplied by four after beginning his relationship with President Díaz Ayuso.

“Cherchez la femme, pardieu! “cherchez la femme!”said a character from Alexandre Dumas, Sr., in The Mohicans of Parisa novel from 1854. As according to Plato and Borges “the name is the archetype of the thing”, perhaps SEA has inadvertently given a good clue to the journalists, the prosecutors and the judges who are investigating – the latter, perhaps a little slow and confused – about the alleged tax fraud, about the shell companies, about the false invoices, about the the blow of the masks, the thing on the floor and the thing in the attic above… “Look in Chiron, for God’s sake! “Search Chiron!”

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