It is 23 years since one of the most epic scenes on Argentine television: the fight between Mauro Viale and Alberto Samidwhich continues to generate laughter and controversy to this day.
He ran summer 2002 and Argentina was in the most important economic and social crisis in recent decades. In this context, the journalist and host of América, Mauro Viale, invited the meat businessman Alberto Samid to his program “Impacto at 12”.
The remembered scene occurred on Thursday January 10, 2002, 23 years ago. The insults, the accusations, the xenophobia, the beatings, the employee who hits Mauro on the floor out of revenge, among other details, are part of a work of art that is somewhere between humor, absurdity and violence.
During these two decades, millions of reproductions on YouTube They keep the memory of this fight. And since creativity has no limits, several remakes have been added, some done in an anime style and others evoking gangster and mafia films like the “Scarface” by Al Pacino.
He even has his own line of merchandisingcreated around the epic aura of this television moment between Viale and Samid. Today we can enjoy HD versions, remastered according to the technical improvements of the times.
Argentine ingenuity, a trademark, has no limits: from T-shirts, luminous decorations to versions in action figures that portray the precise moment of the trumpets in the air.
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How was the crossing between Mauro Viale and Alberto Samid?
Little is remembered, but before grand finale of the trumpets and the “You can’t say such an outrageous thing”, Viale and Samid argued about the economythe hottest topic (if not) in the country at that time of crisis.
Samid was in favor of “buy nationally” and the closure of imports, to reactivate an industry destroyed by the convertibility crisis.
While Viale deceived him with the possibility of dollarization of the local economy, much discussed at that time, given the devaluation of the dollar and the appearance of “quasi-currencies” such as patacones and lecop.
That was the prelude to the charming hell of the trompadas. Things were not going well and both characters had already had an encounter. The outcome was missing.
Tell me what’s your name
Alberto Samid shot: “It’s hard for me to understand because I don’t know your name.”. It referred to the fact that the driver’s name Mauro Viale was not his given name, but a pseudonym that he used throughout his career.
While they continued with the discussion, Viale had no better idea than to remind Samid that he was a tax evader, while the meat businessman insisted on making the driver’s last name known.
Clearly the peak of tension was experienced when Viale accused him of endorsing the attack on the AMIA. “Did you endorse the bomb to the AMIA?” launched the driverlike a poisonous dart.
And there, the outcome. “You cannot say such an outrage; “You have to regret what you said.”was the first reaction of Samid, who then began to hit Viale live.
The journalist responded and they followed the pineapples with the program still on the air, while those present tried to separate them.
At one point while Mauro Viale is left lying down, a man enters from behind the cameras and kicks the journalist in the stomach area, who was trying to recover and continue the battle.
Years later, Alberto Samid revealed that that mysterious man was an employee of the channelwho worked in the goal department, and who did not get along with the driver. He said that in revenge for the mistreatment, he took advantage of the catastrophe to give Viale what he deserved.
The fight Mauro Viale vs. Alberto Samid in HD
Source: Ambito
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