02/08/2020 - 16:00
- Clarín.com
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Once the result of the general elections of October of last year consecrated Alberto Fernández as president and before the official assumption, the hard core of Kirchnerism launched the slogan "For a Christmas without political prisoners . " The phrase made public by then-elected senator Oscar Parrilli started the debate within a government in formation, which was about to turn two months in power became a controversy even with public crosses of ministers, which bothered the president.
During the government of Mauricio Macri several leaders and businessmen linked to Kirchnerism who entered different prisons with preventive prisons. In the last time several recovered the freedom and others received the benefit of the house prison, but the controversy continues. Who are the leaders today whom hard Kirchnerism qualifies as "political prisoners"?
An icon of the “political prisoner” category referred to by hard Kirchnerism is represented by the leader of the Tupac Amaru group, Milagro Sala, arrested on January 16, 2016, after 32 days of camping in front of the Jujuy center, governed by the radical Gerardo Morales. That first arrest created a serious problem for the Macri government to the point of receiving rejection from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Sala was then prosecuted in five cases and sentenced in three. At the end of 2018, the Supreme Court of Justice confirmed the three-year prison sentence in suspense when he was held responsible and instigator of an escrache against Morales in 2009. He also received a four-year sentence when he was found guilty of the crime of "serious injuries "against other social referents jujeños in 2006. But the biggest sentence is to 13 years in jail for fraud against the State, illicit association and extortion in the cause called" Pibes Villeros ". Justice investigated a diversion exceeding $ 60 million between 2011 and 2015 for works that were not carried out.
Milagro Sala has been detained since January 2016.
Since December 29, 2018, Milagro Sala has been serving sentences at his home in the Cuyaya neighborhood, in the provincial capital. The current Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, was her lawyer and affirms that Milagro Sala is a “political prisoner of the regime” of Governor Morales.
Another emblematic case is that of former President Amado Boudou. In August 2018, he was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison for passive bribery and negotiations incompatible with the public service, for having kept 75% of the shares of the company Ciccone Calcographic. He was arrested with controversy over the dissemination of the images at the end of 2017, he was released and last year he returned to the prison. The Criminal Cassation Chamber unanimously resolved to confirm the ruling of the Federal Oral Court 4, so the former vice president stopped being held under the figure of pretrial detention and formally becomes a convict.
The former vice president is detained by the Ciccone case. Photo: EFE / Aitor Pereira)
Another leader who got into the controversy over the qualification of “political prisoners” was the former Federal Planning Minister, Julio De Vido, detained with pretrial detention - since mid-December in his Zárate farm.
About De Vido (who also questioned the Chief of Cabinet Santiago Cafiero for his sayings), weighed the order of preventive detention for the cause of Rio Turbio, where Justice investigates a damage against the State of about $ 176 million. While he was in the Marcos Paz prison he received another preventive prison, for the cause of the notebooks. A sentence of 5 years and eight months for the Tragedy of Eleven also weighs on the former minister.
Julio De Vido's photos at home after his release
Less than a month ago, Parrilli in a radio interview also thought differently from the president and Santiago Cafiero. “I respect the opinion of Alberto Fernández, I will not condition it. It is my opinion that there are political prisoners. Milagro Sala is it. ” On his list he added De Vido, and Boudou.
On November 28 of last year there was a march to Tribal by the “political prisoners”, which among others was promoted by the piquetero leader Luis D'Elía, arrested in February last year for the sentence of three years and nine months in prison for the taking of the police station 24 of La Boca in 2004.
And Roberto Baratta, right hand of Julio De Vido, had also joined the request for that march, arrested for the second time in August 2018 for the cause of the notebooks. He was released a few days later in December last year.
Roberto Baratta sent a message via social networks, hours after his release.
And in December, another that was included in the list of "political prisoners" was the former Secretary of Transportation, Ricardo Jaime, who spoke on the radio. He had been in custody in Ezeiza since 2016 for a cause for the purchase of obsolete trains to Spain and Portugal in 2005. But on October 5, 2018, when the Federal Chamber of Cassation confirmed the verdict and raised the penalty for the Tragedy of Eleven Six to eight years in prison. At the beginning of December he requested house arrest and declared that he is suffering from "political persecution."
In turn, Amado Boudou himself had stated that the businessman Cristobal López and his partner, Fabián De Sousa, who spent almost two years with preventive detention, also "were imprisoned for political reasons", in the case of Oil Fuels, where investigates a fraud to the State for about $ 8000 million.