:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/JVVVA4A3AJBJBNNB2RNHQQWBVQ.jpg "Criticism and praise from a Spanish influencer visiting Argentina has gone viral on social media")
The videos on the Tik-Tok network of the Spanish influencer Laura Mendeztraveling through Argentina, reached a remarkable degree of viralization, with more than 350,000 views.
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Méndez—Spanish, not “Galician,” as she clearly puts it—is Mallorcan and has traveled 49 countries as the travel blogger she is. In one of the 7 who posted on the social network recounting her adventures in Argentina, she reproaches that, perhaps more because of her often haughty and contemptuous tone than because of the content of her statements, aroused many negative reactions that she herself, with one wearing the jersey of the Argentine team, undertook to respond to in a subsequent post.
The one with the highest viralization, with nearly 160,000 views, is the one that tops this rating. Driving an apparently top-of-the-range vehicle, Méndez first denounces the Argentinian exchange system and the fact that tourists are offered to exchange euros at the official exchange rate for 200 pesos, while in “the street “they can be exchanged for 400, an experience he compares with the one he had in Cuba, a country he visited in April last year and in which he had a no less controversial stage.
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In Argentina there is Peronism, which according to Laura is communism with another name or, as she says, the same dog with a different collar. The government, he says, does not allow the population to develop. Basically, he complains about the state of the Argentine roads, due to the lack of guardrails and lighting, internet signal and connectivity, and the scarcity of gas stations along them.
“There is no right to what they do to Argentines,” he says. And he dismisses the explanation that there are no resources to have better routes. In Argentina “there is money”, he says, referring to the strong presence of the Argentines at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, despite the high cost of plane tickets.
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“Between city and city there is nothing”, he says in another passage where he says that during a trip between Bariloche (Río Negro) and El Chaltén (Santa Cruz), which by road involves traveling almost 1,400 kilometers, he punctured the covers. On the strength of this experience, he says that the country is full of tire shops and that in the countryside the mechanics or tire dealers “get richer”.
If Argentina wants to receive more foreign tourism, advises the travel blogger, it should fix the roads
If Argentina wants to receive more foreign tourism, he advises, it should fix the roads. Moreover, he remembers that when he visited the Cueva de las Manos, one of the tourist attractions of Santa Cruz, he was warned that there were many black widow spiders, one of the most venomous spiders. , often fatal, but the antidote in case of a bite It’s almost at the other end of the country. For things like that, he deduces that Argentina is a third world country and that Spain is full of Argentines who don’t want to come back.
Méndez uploaded several videos to his Tik Tok account. In some of them he makes criticisms, some superficial or hasty, as when he denounces that a public school in Monserrat has old furniture and that students must wear a uniform, or when he complains about a fine that the police applied to him for not driving with the headlights on in broad daylight. In others, however, he marvels at the country, such as when he visits a salar in Salta and when he visits a vineyard in Mendoza.
In fact, after the phenomenal repercussion of the most critical and reproduced video – on the management of exchanges, the state of the roads and the lack of connectivity – Laura uploaded another in which, wearing the jersey of the Argentine team, she says she is happy that the Argentine football team won the World Cup in Qatar, but that does not solve the country’s problems.
There he also responds to criticism of his most controversial video and treats those who react to him telling him to return to Spain as “ignorant”. He boasts of having traveled 49 countries and claims his freedom to freely comment on what he sees. The criticisms, he points out, are aimed at improving the situation. It is true that in addition to the bad ones, he says, there are also good roads or highways, but he has covered 7,000 kilometers and tells Argentines that a better life is possible.
The country is beautiful, he insists, listing places like the Perito Moreno glacier (80 kilometers from El Calafate), the Quebrada de las Conchas (in Salta) and the provinces of Córdoba, Mendoza and La Rioja. But the best thing about it, he points out, is “beautiful, wonderful people.”
And leave a piece of advice: “don’t be a conformist”.
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