Argentina's problem is not Economic: It's people not being able to get rid of their myths.

Not long ago I read an article on the "The Post"written by Carlos Mira, where the most powerful idea of the article was that argentine people opposed richness, that we where at war with it, even Pope Francis called money "the devil's crap", that we are prisoners of our preferences, and there was no way out, but I think there is: We need to break up the myths that have shaped us, and our ways of thinking, we are not prisoners of our preferences, but the stories that we think define who we are.

Most of us might not realize it, but every country is built around stories or, what I would like to label "myths"that construct each countries identity. I call them myths rather than stories because they are a bundle of intertwined beliefs that have been passed down since for ever, nobody knows exactly how they came to be, or who was the first one to weave them into Argentine culture, but the truth is they have stuck with us, and it's mainly because of them that we seem stuck in a loop of corruption, bad economic management and morally questionable behavior.

I remember talking to an ambassador once, who had been up and about a lot, and he told me something that stuck with me since for ever. He asked me if I knew what the Argentine hymn was (I remember I looked at him puzzled…