10/07/2020 - 20:23
Clarín.com
Politics
Alicia Castro assumed a role
very close to Venezuela
in the last 20 years.
She first presented a bill to add the Caribbean country to Mercosur, which was approved in 2003, when it was not yet part of Kirchnerism.
And then she occupied the embassies of the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, in Venezuela and Great Britain, from where she deployed a strong rapprochement with the Bolivarian revolution of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
In 2006, she was appointed as Argentina's ambassador to Venezuela, by Néstor Kirchner, a position she held for just over five years, during which Argentina had a special relationship with Chávez.
From there she became an ambassador to Great Britain, where she remained until the end of the Cristina Kirchner government, participating in 2012 in an act in favor of Hugo Chávez and organizing a tribute in London on the first anniversary of his death, in 2014, under the Maduro government.
In London, she even
photographed herself feeding the horses of the carriages of Queen Elizabeth II
, with whom she met when she received the placet of ambassador.
Alicia Castro, in 2012, arriving at the ceremony in London in which she fed the horses of Queen Elizabeth II.
Once Cristina Kirchner's administration ended, Castro
remained very close to the former president and also to Maduro
.
With the inauguration of Alberto Fernández, the Government
proposed her as ambassador to Russia
, but she did not fill the position because she did not receive the agreement of the Senate.
Even before being appointed, Castro asked the government to reform the ambassador's residence in Moscow to
install an elevator
, a work that was valued at $ 45,000.
At the beginning of August this year, the ultra-K leader criticized Minister Felipe Sola, who had assured that the Caribbean country lived in a state of "quasi law" and that Nicolás Maduro's regime was "authoritarian."
On that occasion, Castro crossed him to Solá from his social networks: "After Alberto Fernández's clarifications, it
is striking that the Foreign Minister continues to beat Venezuela
."
There, the appointment of Alicia Castro remained on standby, until the conflict escalated, with Argentina's vote against the Maduro government for human rights violations in Venezuela.
But a few years ago, Castro's interests were far from Venezuela.
Born in 1949, she was a stewardess for Aerolineas Argentinas and a leader of the Aeronavegantes union, where she held the position of general secretary between 1991 and 2003. From there, she participated in the Argentine Workers Movement (MTA), along with Hugo Moyano and Juan Manuel Palacios.
Alicia Castro, in 2012, arriving at the ceremony in London in which she fed the horses of Queen Elizabeth II.
Her leap into the party arena was given by forming part of the Alliance and in 1997 she held the position of national deputy representing the province of Buenos Aires.
Two years later she participated in the electoral campaign that defeated Eduardo Duhalde and elevated Fernando de la Rúa as president.
She opposed the labor reform law and broke with the Alliance, moving to the Social Pole, led by Father Luis Farinello, with whom she was reelected as a national deputy until 2005. "Who does this Parliament represent? The sovereign people Argentine or to the North American interests that the IMF represents? ", he asked himself in 2002, when he deposited an American flag in the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, in full session,
opposing a law
that the then deputy was awarded to IMF pressure.
One of its main bills, in those years, was to incorporate Venezuela into Mercosur in 2003, initiating a rapprochement that still continues, even above its party membership.
Alicia Castro, in 2012, at the ceremony in London in which she fed the horses of Queen Elizabeth II.
