She is a visual artist from Córdoba and became interested in politics when she heard Milei.

Mariana Montalvo, a 53-year-old visual artist from Córdoba, was one of the more than 2,500 attendees at La Derecha Fest, "the most anti-leftist event" held at the Quorum Hotel de Córdoba and which featured the special presence of  President Javier Milei.

Mariana said that she began to take an interest in politics precisely when she first heard the libertarian leader speak. "I realized there were people sharing these kinds of ideas, which I believed were the right ones," she told La Derecha Diario after the event.

"This is the first time I've come to a Derecha Fest and what I liked most is sharing a space where the right ideas are spread," she added, referring to the concepts that many of the speakers shared on stage.

It is worth sharing part of the speech by liberal political scientist and international bestseller Agustín Laje. "Until recently, nobody dared to say 'I'm right-wing,' as if it were something shameful.  Capitalism allows for social mobility, but it generates envy in those who don't achieve it," Laje asserted, who distinguished between the pursuit of merit and the resentment that, according to him, drives the social justice narrative. "The envious person doesn't want to rise, he wants to bring the other down."

In addition to Milei and Laje, "el Gordo Dan," Nicolás Márquez, and filmmaker Diego Recalde, among others, also took the stage.

Milei's speech as a driver of change

Montalvo expanded on her view: "For me, there are things that are right and things that are wrong. Period. For the first time in my life, I started to realize that what I thought was okay when I heard things like the president's speech, and that's how I started to take more interest in politics, when I saw there were people like him sharing these ideas."

The woman also said that in the leftist environment where she develops her career as a visual artist, she did not have a good time because of the ideas that were promoted. "I was always in spaces related to culture and I really had a bad time, I had a really bad time. So, what I feel now is that in some way, there's a part of me that is awakening and that can begin to contribute in other ways to the discourse and the formation of a different way of thinking, to contribute in a different way, right?" she expressed.