In a mural of Belgrano C station in the middle of a prestigious neighborhood in Buenos Aires, rests peacefully the following announcement: "Maids as before", and below it reads the contact phone number and then makes the proviso: "24 hours, care for the elderly sick, home, marriage."
As before. I suppose it refers to those well-dressed housekeeper who knew all about the crafts of home and worked 18 hours a day from Sunday to Sunday without requiring any labor claim, those who did for art's sake. Or to such other maids, also known as maids, Julio Argentino Roca won with kindness and generosity to the homes of locals distinguished newcomers from Europe in the late nineteenth century, that lived from childhood in the great houses of those masters, owners the country, in fact, Indians were orphans and orphans, survivors of the Desert Campaign.
Or will cover even more ancient maids? "Those who also had slaves by name and brought in boats from Cape Verde and New Guinea?
What will, then, in the XXI century, the maids as before? "Daughters of who, what survivors, trained by whom brought from where?
As I was asking, we kept walking and went to the Park Barracks Belgrano, which is right across from where the notice of the maids as before. Everything was as usual in this place on a Sunday drew neighborhood residents to walk their pets and dozens of people lay on the grass pitches and drabs letting go the remainder of Sunday rest. Suddenly the scene: two couples who had warned on arrival, they improvised a picnic on the lawn and took photos and passed them with wine, were protesting because they had stolen a bag with camera and all the money. As a scent hound millimeter, invisible and inaudible from the curves of autumn light, the thief had stolen one bag in their noses without being noticed.
immediately relate a fact to the other: the poster of the maids to the thief who stole from unsuspecting couples, because the stupidity of class boundaries. Customers are able to offer maids as before, as workers, trained to submission and toilet at low cost, must also be willing to have thieves as before, so quick, so clever and so efficient.
But then, like a never ending story, we see that when these thefts like they used to multiply the final poverty of households headed by those maids as before, the big bosses back to convince the public that someone comes down hard to fight these thieves who fish every Sunday the three hundred dollars of your week and fight for the dignity of their mothers. We require (demand) patterns with big headlines in the media, the reactionaries will ask the head of the disaffected at any cost, but the whole society will pay it and get it again one of these dictators, as efficient, such a good houseboy of the powerful, so smart and trained so as murderer and thief ... like before.
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