10/21/2020 2:40 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 10/21/2020 3:14 PM
Formosa became in recent days at the center of the controversy over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
This Wednesday, after images of several people from Formosa camping to enter the province were revealed, the Minister of National Security, Sabina Frederic,
called the policy
used by Governor Gildo Insfrán
"exemplary"
.
"Formosa is exemplary in terms of the numbers offered by the Governor. It is the province's decision, and
the results are clear
, to maintain this health policy here that has given good results," remarked the head of the Security portfolio at a press conference , upon reaching Formosa.
Frederic gave that answer after Insfrán said that there are people who
"do not tolerate that Formosa has 166 diagnosed cases"
and who have "zero deaths".
Strictly speaking, the controversy erupts after a man drowned when trying to enter the province by swimming through the Bermejo River to meet his daughter, whom he had not seen since February.
The governor thus blamed the media for the controversy that was generated over the closure of the province and the hundreds of people from Formosa who cannot enter.
"Let us remember that the President came to inaugurate a highly complex hospital and a sports center with beds for mild cases. But the news was the hug we gave each other and having praised the Formosan model," he remarked.
And he added: "Then it is an absolute lack of respect for the people of Formosa who are the ones who elect, we have democratic and free elections every two years. When they say these things it is not only an attack on the person who speaks but on the people and is part of a
soft blow that the Argentine right put into operation
".
Frederic, meanwhile, endorsed these sayings adding that "you have to see what is hidden when there is so much dissemination of information that is not central" and that "you have to learn to read some media in a different way."
"You have to see what is happening in other provinces, which have not respected the quarantine too much at any time, and that has generated situations that today are difficult to manage. You
have to look at what is not said,
" he remarked.
From the beginning of the quarantine, Formosa became a kind of impenetrable province but the issue returned to settle after a series of episodes lived by Formose people who could not return to their homes, after they were denied access to the provincial territory.
The president and the governor, embraced and without a mask.
(Photo: capture).
One of them was the case of
Mauro Rubén Ledesma
, 23, a man from Córdoba who was living in the Chaco town of San Martín and had a two-year-old daughter living in El Colorado, Formosa: he had a tragic end after trying to cross to She swam the Bermejo River to be able to see her little girl, for whom she had been fighting since the pandemic began in March.
According to his family, he had tried several times to obtain a driving license but was denied it until he made the drastic decision to cross the river on his own at dawn last Saturday.
Mauro's is added to the case of another man who did manage to cross the river, but was arrested on land and
has been imprisoned for 14 days
in "quarantine" mode in a police station.
Mauro Rubén Ledesma (23), the young man who drowned trying to cross the Bermejo River.
This Wednesday, the federal Justice ordered the Insfran government to
let in 82 Formosa students
who have been trying to return home since April and are withheld from their income
within the next 48 hours
.
It is a group of boys who decided to go to study in other provinces because they could not in Formosa and who never managed to return due to the restrictions imposed by the provincial government.
All of them, as a group, presented a collective Habeas corpus and thus obtained the order of the judge.
Gabriela Neme, councilor and lawyer for the young people, accused the State Attorney, Stella Maris Zavala, who was on behalf of the provincial government, because she told the lawyers and the children "that when we have the first death everyone will be responsible ".
Another significant case that generated outrage was that of
Carmen Acosta
, a woman who could not enter to fire her mother, who was seriously ill.
She had driven about 3,000 kilometers to say goodbye to her 81-year-old mother Aurora Quintanade, but they would not let her.
Carmen was only allowed
five days after her first attempt
to enter, but it was too late.
His mom had passed away hours before he could get close to her.
"They have no forgiveness for what they did to me," Carmen said, even before her mother's death.
Another case that was reported in the media was that of a family, with a 4-year-old boy, who has
lived for more than two weeks under a container
on the outskirts of the province because they are not allowed to return home.
They were not allowed in because they do not believe they are from the town they claim to be.
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