02/10/2020 - 20:27
Clarín.com
Opinion
The government has two control towers for everything, so it is not uncommon for officials to clash.
Fortunately, these are not airplanes.
Although the Torre Alberto is already subordinate to what the Torre Cristina says, the shocks are becoming stronger and more frequent.
It just happened with Carlos Raimundi, the Argentine representative in the OAS.
Raimundi is a political ambassador and the political ambassadors are from the president.
But not in this case:
Raimundi belongs to Cristina
.
Before it had been from Frepaso and before Lilita Carrió and before radical, chicken from Fredy Storani.
There he was a critic of Alfonsín from the left, until he slammed the door because he was left out of a list of candidates for deputy.
At the last meeting of the OAS Permanent Council, scheduled to address the drama of the Venezuelan people, Raimundi defended Maduro.
Román Lejtman tells Infobae that Foreign Minister Felipe Solá had ordered him to condemn the human rights violations.
And what did Raimundi do?
One a la Raimundi: he said that there is a biased assessment of Venezuela.
Without saying it, Solá said skeptically.
Carlos Raimundi, Argentine representative to the OAS.
He got so out of hand that President Fernández had to call him and
the Foreign Ministry had to disavow him
, everything that the double command tolerates.
In a normal government, if an ambassador does what Raimundi did and disobeys an order that in foreign policy is the least professional there is, he will most likely be
fired immediately
.
They are not thrown in order not to enlarge the thing, but the sanction is clear to everyone.
But
Fernández and Solá now cannot touch the officials appointed by Cristina
.
Three months ago, it was another story: Solá made the appointment as ambassador to Russia of the former hostess Alicia Castro, promoted by Cristina.
She had crossed the chancellor on Twitter precisely because of Venezuela.
Today I could not have.
In the middle of the OAS vote, other games were being played.
A sector of the European left offered Maduro a way out: elections with international support.
Maduro handed over political prisoners and, exploiting the internal fight of the opposition, managed to get Capriles to agree to participate.
Most of the opposition leaders are imprisoned or banned.
The elections are key so that Maduro
can pretend that there is democracy
.
But a bombshell appeared: a new update to Bachelet's chilling 2018/19 report on the dead and tortured, adding another 2,000 to the more than 7,000 victims since January.
To say Bachelet is to say the former socialist president, the daughter of a general who died in Pinochet prison.
The complaint broke the pact with Capriles and left progressivism that seeks to disqualify anything that hits Chavismo and
ends up justifying torture
.
Raimundi was also skating and then the role of Solá and Fernández was blurred.
In case it goes without saying:
in Venezuela there is no democracy
.
There is no division of powers, no free press, and no possibility of the government losing an election.
The president of the Supreme Court, Maikel Moreno, is a former bodyguard who was arrested on suspicion of killing a teenager.
He put opposition mayors in jail, annulled the powers of Congress, and removed the attorney general, who fled the country.
There is a military dictatorship, with thousands of political prisoners and millions of exiles, like the ones we knew, although of a different color.
Maduro persists due to the strength and support of the Cuban battalion deployed in Venezuela.
With them he controls the state apparatus and especially the military apparatus.
That cannot be hidden and there is no juggling or diplomatic sarasa worth it.