Electoral Apathy Returns to Argentina: “I Didn’t Know What to Vote For”

In the neighborhood of Retiro, in the center of Buenos Aires, there is the oldest poverty village in Argentina, the 31st, in which about 40,000 people live. Rubén Romero, 50 years old, uses the election days to supplement his salary as an industrial engineer: he gets up early and bets with his motorcycle at the entrance of the villa to offer trips to the schools designated to vote. “On Sunday I almost didn’t work, few people went to vote, less t…