The UBA defended that Amado Boudou give a seminar on fake news

Alexander Alfie

04/07/2021 19:53

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 04/07/2021 20:02

The rector of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA),

Alberto Barbieri

, and the director of the Communication Sciences Career,

Larisa Kejval

, agreed that the former vice president Amado Boudou will present next month as a guest at an optional seminar at the UBA They prioritize

freedom of expression

so that even a former vice president convicted of corruption can give his vision. 

"One of the most important aspects of the Argentine public university is academic freedom and freedom of opinion," Barbieri told

Clarín

.

And he added: "The UBA houses an academic community that, among students, teachers and researchers, brings together more than half a million people who study, research,

debate with plurality of thought

always within the framework of a democratic coexistence."

Organized by professors Gustavo Bulla and Daniel Rosso, the seminar that started on March 15 is entitled

Argentine journalism in its labyrinth: media and legal warfare, political operations, fake news and other delights of independence.

The former Kirchnerist vice president plans to present on May 3, at that seminar, on

emblematic cases of fake news and legal warfare: the Boudou case.

"My institutional duty as rector is to reaffirm, as established by the university statute,

the defense of

academic

freedom

, one of the pillars that make the UBA one of the most prestigious universities at the international level," said Barbieri.

In any case, the rector of the UBA pointed out that it

is up to the Faculty of Social Sciences to

explain “the reasons that led it to organize this optional seminar within the framework of the Career in Communication Sciences.

Also ensure that all voices are heard ”.

A Boudou "el Amado", is a clay drawer on the prestige of the University of Buenos Aires.

Any information on the symbolic death of the UBA, contact the Faculty of Social Communication.

pic.twitter.com/d8zkaEfonr

- Elisa Lilita Carrió (@elisacarrio) April 6, 2021

The director of the Communication Sciences Career,

Larisa Kejval

, told

Clarín

that the optional seminar was approved by the Career Board and the Faculty Board of Directors in 2019 and 2020, "within the framework of the offer annual of 47 optional seminars of the Career. It is a subject dictated by the successful professor Gustavo Bulla and the specialist in political communication Daniel Rosso ".

"The Career of Communication Sciences defends and will defend the principle of

academic

freedom that governs the entire University of Buenos Aires. Therefore, it

does not supervise or object to the political, academic or ideological perspectives

of its teachers or of the subjects at its disposal. charge, "Kejval said.

Kejval added that Boudou is a doctoral student on the UBA's Doctorate in Social Sciences.

"The presence of a former vice president as a guest at the public university

should not be explained

, even if convictions weigh on his person. Above all, because we teach our students that

all people have the right to express themselves and be heard"

Kejval maintained.

In the seminar on journalism, the head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI),

Cristina Caamaño

,

presented this Monday

, who stressed that there is no longer the "promiscuity that served the

lawfare

, this union between the services, the judges, the media of communication and large concentrated economic groups, "said Caamano.

However, Caamaño had to be isolated for several days, two weeks ago, after the coronavirus was detected by the rapporteur

Víctor Hugo Morales

,

with whom he had had "close contact",

having shared a barbecue with him and six other people , as explained by that same official.

Boudou was sentenced with:

- the key witness paid with a boutique hotel, Vandenbroele

-the key judge paid with a charge, Bertuzzi

And now they pretend that I can't talk about it?

What a stone face, huh ...

- ari lijalad (@arilijalad) April 6, 2021

Before Caamano, Ari Lijalad, Tuny Kollman, Cynthia García and Sandra Russo, among other journalists who put the focus on the lawfare theory that Kirchnerism has been promoting, exhibited at the seminar.

Consulted by

Clarín

, one of the organizers of the seminar justified the presence of Boudou in that "

he suffered and suffers legal and media persecution in his own flesh

".

The former vice president has

a sentence of 5 years and 10 months in prison

for having committed the crimes of

passive bribery and negotiations incompatible with the public function

, in the appropriation of the

Ciccone Calcográfica

company

.

Justice proved that Boudou and his accomplices stayed with Ciccone to obtain contracts with the State, to print tickets and official documentation.

That ruling was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice, despite which he is serving his sentence under house arrest.

In dialogue with

Clarín

, Boudou's lawyer, Graciana Peñafort, said that "freedom of expression continues to be a right that everyone in this country has.

The conviction does not imply that he loses freedom of expression

, only his freedom of movement is restricted." affirmed Peñafort.

And he added: "I do not see the reason for the debate.

There are people who believe that when you are in prison you have no rights

. But that is a misconception of those who do not understand how the issue works." 

On the contrary, the leader of the Civic Coalition, Elisa "Lilita" Carrió, questioned the ex-vice president's statement.

"A Boudou 'el Amado',

is a clay drawer on the prestige of the University of Buenos Aires.

Any information on the symbolic death of the UBA, communicate with the Faculty of Social Communication," Carrió said on his social networks.

And he illustrated that message with the photo of the former Peronist gubernatorial candidate Herminio Iglesias burning a coffin at the closing of the PJ campaign in 1983.

And the deputy Graciela Ocaña (Together for Change) added: "Outrageous, the only class that the condemned Boudou can give is how to rob the banknote-making factory. #Corrupts."

File of Amado Boudou, found on the cell phone of former spy Mercedes Funes.

Photo of the act of Amado Boudou in Plaza San Martín, on December 22, 2018, taken by former AFI agent Mercedes Funes.

At the end of last year, the Justice found files on Boudou and other Kirchner leaders

on the cell phone of a former AFI spy,

Mercedes Funes Silva, when he was imprisoned in the Ezeiza prison.

The file on Boudou included his photo, his personal data, those of his lawyers and who visited him in prison, as well as his political and business background.

But there was also data after his imprisonment, when he regained his freedom, such as photos and messages exchanged between AFI agents, on December 22, 2018,

during an act in support of Boudou, where the former spy Funes reported live from San Martin Plaza.

This information is part of the "content of the document in pdf format entitled '116' (256 pages long) found on the cell phone seized from Mercedes Funes Silva (AFI agent)," stated prosecutors Cecilia Incardona and Santiago Eyherabide, in the trial that is carried out in the federal courts of Lomas de Zamora and that the Criminal Cassation Chamber established that it pass to Comodoro Py.

There are

38 prosecuted for illegal espionage during the macrista administration

on political leaders, journalists and union members, as well as those arrested for corruption in the Ezeiza prison.