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Alberto Fernández winked at Milagro Sala and accused Macri of human rights

2020-02-19T01:21:01.312Z


In a video, the President endorsed the concept of "lawfare" used by Cristina Kirchner. And he spoke of "persecution and arbitrary detention of opponents" during the previous government.


02/18/2020 - 22:04

  • Clarín.com
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The controversy over the "political prisoners", a debate that generated tensions in the government, returned to the scene through an official video in which Alberto Fernández talks about "persecution and arbitrary detention of opponents" and mentions the concept of "lawfare " .

After the criticism of former officials such as Julio De Vido and Luis D'Elía , the video appears as a unified and official message: it was set up by the Ministry of Human Rights, which is under the orbit of the Ministry of Justice commanded by the albertist Marcela Losardo , and had the final OK of the President and his vice, Cristina Kirchner. The video was broadcast from Alberto F.'s Twitter account.

The clip says that " Argentina suffered serious human rights violations " and that the "rule of law was systematically violated." It refers specifically to what happened during the government of Mauricio Macri.

"There is no crack in that subject: Alberto and Cristina think alike and the video reflects the official position" explained Clarín at Casa Rosada and focused on the point of "arbitrary detentions", words used by the President in his swearing speech .

In times of social networks, the political message is - they say in Rosada - that Alberto published the video and Cristina retweeted it. One click policy .

The " lawfare" , a concept that refers to a judicial campaign with political and media support, appears in the video from statements made by Fernández in August 2019 and was widely used by the former president.

In recent years lawfare was installed in Argentina.
Then I questioned the judicial and media complacency with the political power that allowed the persecution and arbitrary detention of opponents.
Never again to a justice that decides and pursues according to political winds. pic.twitter.com/x0LCN1WrpO

- Alberto Fernández (@alferdez) February 18, 2020

Other factors play on the same board. One refers to the demand of the Casa Rosada on the "inaction" of the Supreme Court regarding the performance of certain sectors of Justice . "He still did not think about the issue," they object in the Government and link it, laterally, with some unease in Justice over the judicial reform prepared by the Government.

In the video, Fernandez appears with a message in that regard. "I questioned the judicial and media complacency with the political power that allowed the persecution and arbitrary detention of opponents. Never again to a justice that decides and persecutes according to the political winds."

From the top of the Government they emit, in parallel, another signal: that although it may criticize what the Justice resolves, the Executive will not be involved with the actions. "We will not do what we have been criticizing: the AFI mixed with Comodoro Py and the use of the protected witness system," said an official source.

The video was published on Tuesday on the Twitter of the Secretary of Human Rights, which is in charge of Horacio Pietragalla , and hours later Fernandez posted it from his personal account.

The edition provides some details: in addition to Fernández, Cristina, the current Treasury Attorney and former Secretary of Legal and Technical Carlos Zannini -who was arrested-, former Minister Aníbal Fernández , the lawyer of former President Alberto Beraldi and, among others, Milagro Sala, of the Tupac Amaru organization, who is being held in Jujuy by order of the provincial Justice.

After the diffusion of the video, the Jujeño governor, the radical Gerardo Morales, said: " It is not a political prisoner" but "a" common criminal "who" got rich and robbed the people . "The theme Sala is a sensitive chapter in the Government: the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, was the defense lawyer for the Jujeña leader.The official, in reference to the Sala issue, used the figure of "political prisoner".

That does not happen with D'Elía, De Vido or, for instance, former Vice President Amado Boudou. Fernández says, in this regard, that "many of those people have been in needless confinement for years because the procedural law would allow them to withstand those free trials."

In addition, Macri - in black and white, and former Justice Minister Germán Garavano (when talking about the "abuse of the figure of the repentant") appear in the video. Gustavo Arribas, former head of the AFI, also appears when it is reported that there was, in the Macri era, "illegal espionage and extortion against businessmen and opposition leaders."

Source: clarin

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