Filo.explains | The 10 facts and characters of 2021

Vaccines arrived
Towards the end of last year, the first vaccines against covid were applied in several countries around the world. But the year of vaccines was 2021. So much so, that at this moment in which I am telling you this, in Argentina there are almost 32 million people with the complete scheme. Assault on the Capitol 
The beginning of the year 2021 gave us one of the most bizarre and ridiculous moments of recent times. After Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election, supporters of Donald Trump, the defeated, stormed the Capitol. Do you remember the images of that unusual day? Lionel Messi
2021 will also be remembered as the year lionel Messi, the best football player in the world, had his life changed. He left Barcelona after two decades to go play for Paris Saint Germain. He won his seventh Ballon d’Or. He qualified for the World Cup. But, above all, he achieved his usual dream: he was champion with the Argentine National Team. Laws
On the edge of the year 2020, the Law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy was approved in the National Congress, as a result of a long-standing struggle. With that envy, 2021 also brought important laws for the expansion of rights. On June 24, Law 27,636 was approved, which establishes that all State agencies must have transvestite, transsexual and transgender people on their plant, in a proportion of not less than 1 percent. On October 26, the Frontal Labeling Law was approved, which will allow consumers to be warned about excess fats, sodium and sugars in food. Hopefully the 2022 that already arrives will be the year of other important laws that await their turn, such as the wetlands law or the promotion of industrial cannabis. Influencers
Without a doubt, 2021 was the year of influencers. People with thousands (and sometimes millions) of followers on social media. From Hasbullah Magomedov, the 19-year-old Russian with achondroplasia, the most frequent form of dwarfism, to Ibai Llanos, the most successful Spanish streamer. Elections 
The year that ends was an electoral campaign in Argentina. The pandemic postponed the PASO to September, and the general legislative election to November. And everything was very rare: the opposition won but did not celebrate, the ruling party lost but celebrated, and both the left and the extreme right grew. Network blackout
This year something unsuspected happened: we were six hours without Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. Remember the network blackout? It is believed that that day Mark Zuckerberg, owner of the company that brings together all those companies, lost 6 billion dollars. L-GHENT
It was Dad. He met with President Alberto Fernández. He recorded with Bizarrap and Tini Stoessel. It filled Luna Park. It had hundreds of millions of views on YouTube and Spotify. Definitely, 2021 was the year of Elian Angel Valenzuela.Space-X
During the Cold War, the space race was between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this twenty-first century of megacorporations, the race to travel to space passed into private hands. Some of the richest men in the world, like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, compete to travel to infinity and beyond. In fact, Bezos, this year, did it himself. Wandagate
Towards the end of the year we had the great scandal that we were waiting for to buy pochoclo and watch as if it were a telenovela: the Wanda case, China Suárez and Mauro Icardi. Remember? It was two or three days in which we did nothing but update the news about that love triangle.

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