Nicolas Wiñazki
01/30/2021 11:01 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 01/30/2021 11:01 PM
The Peronist governor of Formosa, Gildo Insfrán, categorically
denies
that his administration has committed human rights violations (HR) during the administration of the health policy against Covid-19.
He claims to be the
victim
of an opposition campaign, which he has resoundingly defeated since he became vice governor of his district in 1987, and especially since in 1995 he was elected uninterrupted governor.
He also involved
the media
in
the plot
.
The Justicialista Party (PJ) supported him.
And therefore the Executive Power (Alberto and Cristina).
The complainants of the lack of freedoms in that province and other humiliations are citizens of Formosa who testified before the national Justice and in files submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
Amnesty International also asked for resolutions in the case.
Multiparty leaders.
Intellectuals.
Members of the Argentine Catholic Church.
Evangelical pastors from Formosa.
And leaders of the QOM and Wichí aboriginal communities.
Insfrán knows that whoever exercises power enjoys privileges.
But it also pays costs.
The Formosa scandals under heavy hand in pandemic will continue to unfold.
Legislators of the parliamentary opposition
would visit Formosa this week
, after the inspection made in the territory by the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation, Horacio Pietragalla Corti, who minimized the complaints against the regime of the caudillo de norte.
But
there are more severe suspicions
that fly over his management.
Such
as possible links
to large-scale
drug trafficking cases
.
Insfrán was never accused in court of being part of gangs that worked on crimes with the drug business in the province.
And he was not charged in smuggling files in that great territory where he knows everything.
Former legislator Elisa Carrió, head of the Civic Coalition and leader of the Juntos por el Cambio alliance, was the first to
request the intervention of Formosa due to the complaints of human rights violations.
In dialogue with
Clarín
, he expanded his accusations against Insfrán: "
In Formosa he controls everything
. Smuggling at the borders with Paraguay. And he is involved in drug trafficking through his environment."
The former Minister of Security of the presidential administration of Mauricio Macri, Patricia Bullrich, described to this newspaper what was her experience with the Formosa de Insfrán: "Unlike other provinces, when I was Minister of Security it
was almost impossible to work with Insfrán.
It prevented the coordination of investigations between the national security forces and the Formosa police. They wanted to control what was happening at the borders. We verified several cases involving people from their political environment who were involved in the drug business. "
The complaints about the ties between the large Insfrán family and drug trafficking arise, above all,
between members of the same clan.
In 2016, Insfrán's former brother-in-law, Gert Erik Baldús -the governor's ex-wife is Teresa Baldús-, published a request in a Formosan press in which he narrated how
the house of one of his daughters was ransacked by unknown persons
;
while anonymously soon after they shot the truck of one of their children;
until the climax of the drama came when, always according to Bladús, a gang of "hit men with a Central American accent" took the mother of their children hostage in their home, where they were with friends and relatives, they beat them savagely, They harassed them, asking him for a very important amount of money on the sale of drugs that the Baldús assured in court that they had nothing to do with it.
In his request, Insfrán's brother-in-law pointed to his in-laws who became involved in politics because of what happened.
He has been fighting for years with the Governor: "" Formoseños, we are from the interior, middle class family;
We have no relationship whatsoever with relatives of Formosa,
nor with my ex-brother-in-law Gildo Insfrán, and much less with the government of the province. "
Baldús affirmed that everything scared him: "My family is broken, afraid, thinking of leaving this dangerous place, where nothing happens afterwards', everything remains in nothingness, and asking,"
for whom is the message
"-" Another case that will remain in the memory? ". FORMOSA, THE BEAUTIFUL ... IT IS ON FIRE !! WHOEVER WANTS TO HEAR, LET THEM HEAR ...".
The case remains
unpunished.
Jorge Lanata's PPT program, broadcast on channel 13, told that story and the journalist Ignacio Otero interviewed Baldús.
That same television report revealed in 2016, in a field in Formosa that Javier Ávalos, husband of Insfrán's niece, named Liliana Mabel Tijera Insfrán, had bought in 2008
shipments of tens of kilos of ephedrine, a precursor chemical to make drugs
.
Justice initially pointed out, as the owner of that drug that later traveled to Mexico, the former trafficker Ibar Esteban Pérez Corradi.
Ávalos, Insfrán's relative who owns these lands with history, later set up a transport company.
In 2016, one of the trucks from that thriving company was stopped by police forces.
In principle, at first glance, it transported zucchini.
Behind the vegetables was greener: 200 tons of marijuana.
Insfrán said that he never saw her married to his niece.
The tragic chance would have caused, always according to the defenses of Formosa Peronism, that in that same 2016 another Insfrán nephew, Pedro Kunz, was arrested in the city of Rosario
with 4 kilos of cocaine
.
Kunz was accompanied by the brother of the legal advisor from the municipality of Laguna Blanca, the birthplace of Gildo Insfrán, the same city in which the family of his brother-in-law was attacked by professionals of violence who mistakenly sought drug money. .
Years later, in 2010, the National Gendarmerie advanced an investigation on a field owned by a councilor from the Formoseña town of Estanislao del Campo, a leader loyal to Insfrán named Héctor Palma.
700 kilos of cocaine
and a runway for clandestine planes were found.
Palma said he had rented his property but never showed the rental contract.
As if he were not innocent, he was also arrested after escaping.
Justice condemned him for drug trafficking.
Palma, in addition to defending himself, defended his political boss, Insfrán: "It has nothing to do with this," he told reporters while being taken to a cell.
Why could Insfrán be suspected of stockpiling 700 kilos of cocaine in a field where airplanes could land?
Strange defense of Palma who should not be linked with him.
There are many more stories, from the recent past, similar to
these narcopolitical plots
in a province totally dominated by the PJ of Insfrán.
One more, among many: also in 2016, an official from the Ministry of Economy of the Insfrán management, named Pedro Ramón Bareiro, was arrested when the police wanted to help him get out of his 4x4 truck that had fallen into a ditch on a road near Monte Lindo.
Surprise: the driver and his family were discovered hiding boxes in the brush.
It was 51 kilos of cocaine
.
And the truck was not Barreiro's.
It was in the name of the Purchasing and Supplies Directorate of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Finance of Formosa.
Insfrán
denies any link
with organized crime and Justice agrees with him.
The Formosan Judicial Power
was co-opted by the PJ
from the very beginning of Insfrán's rise to royal power.
In 1999, the head of the PJ of the North had to operate in the Justice to be allowed a first re-election as governor because in a previous period he had been vice, so he had the chance to continue in the Executive Power forbidden.
After a fierce political dispute,
Insfrán achieved a first favorable ruling issued by the Supreme Court of Justice of Formosa.
But his opponents brought new measures.
One of the members of that court, Carlos Gerardo González, could also give rise to another measure that would stop the governor's project.
It was denounced by a Peronist legislator.
In a unique measure for the Law, the lower court of Arturo Ceferino Arroquigaray believed that the complaint that claimed that González had "taken over" the file on Insfrán's re-election was serious.
The magistrate of the Supreme Superior Court could not decide on the matter.
He was imprisoned.
In those times of intense discussion due to Insfrán's insistence to remain in power, a session of the Formosa provincial deputies ended in a hurry.
Insfrán
closed the Legislature.
That year he won the elections.
He reformed the Constitution of Formosa.
He wanted to be reelected forever.
He won in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.
He never
experienced a crisis like the current one.