12/13/2020 7:36 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 12/13/2020 7:36 PM
Paraphrasing that story by Borges, the one who has just completed a year in office is, increasingly, the government of the forking paths.
What many feared, by virtue of the
way in which Cristina Kirchner anointed Alberto Fernández to head the presidential formula
, ended up being confirmed in the facts.
A new Borgean quote describes the reality that unites the Fernándezes today:
it is not love but horror
, more undisguised with the passing of days and circumstances.
The gestures of one and the rearrangements of the other follow one another, branching out in all areas, in a dangerous domino effect with an unpredictable ending.
Venezuela, Boudou, the Justice, the Court, the retirements, the PASO, everything is processed under the same logic of
that sort of two-sided power
, which forces verbal juggling and justifications that sometimes even sound childish, as when the President proclaims the authorship of an idea - the case of the modifications that the Senate introduced to the retirement adjustment - that is known to come from the vice presidency.
Venezuela
is remarkable because it
explicitly exposes the conflict to the world
.
The one who warns is not a traitor, they say, and there the words of the strong man of the Chavista regime, Diosdado Cabello, resonate, more and more prophetic, as Alberto Fernández prevailed last year in the PASO: “Hopefully, dear God, no I'm wrong, that whoever they are choosing is not going to believe that they are choosing because it is him ”.
Two months ago, in a virtual forum with left-wing organizations, Cabello urged Kirchnerism to pressure the government to have Argentina appoint an ambassador in Caracas.
And ten days ago, Cabello and the Chavista constituent Mario Silva reviled Alberto F., calling him "
lukewarm for cold
" the first, and "
playing dumb, the asshole
", the second, both showing him their "lack of solidarity" with Venezuela.
The legislative elections last Sunday in that country
left in absolute evidence, borders outside, how conflicts are settled here indoors
.
With its sights set on Christianity, the
Argentine government refrained from rejecting those elections
, considered fraudulent, and from condemning the Maduro regime, among other things, for "undermining the democratic system and the separation of powers (...) consolidating Venezuela as a dictatorship ”, according to the resolution voted in the Organization of American States (OAS) by Canada, Colombia, the United States, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador and Costa Rica among twenty-one countries in the region.
The Venezuelan question in Argentina had already had an embarrassing chapter months ago.
It was when Carlos Raimundi, Argentine ambassador to the OAS, relativized the forceful report of the United Nations High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on the human rights violations of the Chavista regime,
forcing the Foreign Ministry to clarify that the government of Alberto Fernández supported the document
presented by the former Chilean president.
In this year of management, there were many veronica that Fernández had to rehearse on the Venezuela issue, trying to satisfy the hard core of Kirchnerism but without being able to turn a blind eye to the data that speak, for example, of 724 forced disappearances at the hands of the Chavista political police between 2018 and 2019, the more than 18 thousand extrajudicial executions or the more than fifteen thousand illegal arrests since 2014.
"To have banned Boudou is to have encouraged to nationalize Ciccone to erase the evidence,"
said in 2016 an Alberto Fernández away from Kirchnerism.
Two years earlier, in a column in La Nación he had written: “Boudou no longer has alibis.
Argentines know how much he has lied in his crazy race to escape the facts attributed to him ”.
Last days, before the complaint of lawfare and the fiery defense of hard Kirchnerism before the ruling of the Court that left final the sentence of five years and ten months in prison for the former vice in the Ciccone case, the President opted for silence.
The one who spoke was
the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero
who,
pointing to the Court, pointed out "arbitrariness and irregularities" in the process.
In those same days, and as he had done in October with the letter in which Cristina spoke of "officials who do not work",
Alberto F. came out to say that he shared "many of the criticisms" of his vice to the Supreme Court
and the Justice operation, as a number two seeking the approval of his number one.
They say a former Latin American president said it: "Positions and even power can be transferred, what cannot be transferred is authority."