Guido Braslavsky
07/05/2020 - 22:48
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The brutal murder in Santa Cruz of the former private secretary of Cristina Kirchner, Fabián Gutiérrez, escalated again to a strong confrontation between the Government and the leaders of the hard wing of Together for Change.
After having left the initial aftershocks to his swords, this Sunday it was President Alberto Fernández himself who went on to describe as “canallesco” the document that the opposition disseminated after the discovery on Saturday of Gutiérrez's body, buried among rubble and earth in the funds of a house in El Calafate.
"Signing a document like the one they signed, sowing doubts about the reasons for Fabián Gutiérrez's death is rogue, at a time when society is sensitized by the pandemic," said the President, referring to the UCR text, the Pro and the Civic Coalition.
"The use of death to try to reinstate a painful issue, which needs to be judged seriously, with legal rationality, with honest judges to deal with the issue, is absolutely miserable," continued his onslaught in dialogue with FM Milenium , leaving At the crossroads of the opposition's claim that the former secretary of Cristina was a repentant in the megacause of the notebooks of bribes, and therefore, his crime was "of the greatest institutional gravity".
For Fernández, “it is incomprehensible that someone tries to link the Government to something like the murder of a person and the connection that person had with the judicial case, which is a fact that objectively happened like this, but according to the investigations - I do not have why hesitate- he had other motives ”, he insisted.
“I call everyone to reflect, it was a sad fact. What link does this have to that cause? ”He asked about the bribery notebook scandal. And he added: "If one coldly looks at the truth ... I do not know who benefits from the death of Fabián Gutiérrez, what he declared is valid, it is not because he died that statement falls."
In the Casa Rosada, and in "all the space" of the Frente de Todos, there was "total outrage" with the expressions of the opposition, indicated government sources consulted by Clarín .
"The conviction is that they crossed a line. How do you sit down to dialogue or agree on a law in Congress with people who tell you that you are a murderer? ”Reflected the discomfort. And they pointed to the differences in tone that, it was already known last night, crossed to Together for Change: "The strange thing is that this space allows itself to be led by its most radicalized sector."
While from Santa Cruz the first macabre details of the autopsy began to be revealed, with signs that before he was assassinated, Gutiérrez would have suffered torture, in addition to the blows and stitches to the neck initially observed, the opposition leaders insisted with their questions At the speed that they interpreted, the ruling party wanted to consider the case clarified along the lines of the police act ; and on the need for federal justice to deal with the investigation, warning of the role that the Santa Cruz prosecutor, Cristina Kirchner's niece and daughter of the governor, Natalia Mercado, would play in the case.
In this sense, the head of the national UCR and deputy from Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo, insisted that it was a "crime of Kirchner power" and Patricia Bullrich, the head of the Pro and former Minister of Security, went straight to the Fernández crossing: “You were one of the first to link our government with the disappearance of (Santiago) Maldonado [in 2017]. He had no qualms about saying that it had been a state crime. If I say that his attitude was rogue, I fall short. ”
On Saturday, the Casa Rosada channeled the official reply through the chief of staff, Santiago Cafiero. The interior minister, Eduardo de Pedro, also joined: "The opposition appealed again to lies and opportunism, they speculated with the death of Gutiérrez while his family demanded respect."
And the Mendoza Cristicamporista senator Anabel Fernández Sagasti yesterday fired her inmate with the former Governor Cornejo, assuring that there is a "desperate search to reorganize Macrismo" and that the radical boss - despite being known, has repeatedly criticized Macri - is your "new spokesperson and exegete".
Although linked according to the first hypotheses to a fact of extortion and even passion, the truth is that the commotion by the crime of Gutiérrez ran the axis in the last hours of the case for espionage in the Macrista management, which had been gladly spreading Kirchnerism , even amid disturbing accounts, of arrests of journalists.
To put the focus back on after the tragic death of the former secretary, in the Calafate town where luxury houses - such as Gutiérrez's - and the great hotels of Kirchnerism and its former officials, and in general on the causes for corruption of those years. The vice president remained out of the debate and remains silent until now about what happened to her former secretary for long seven years.