Natasha Niebieskikwiat
07/09/2021 18:06
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/09/2021 18:42
The Luis Arce government's complaint that the Mauricio Macri administration allegedly collaborated with the shipment of "war material" from Argentina to Bolivia in those stormy days of 2019, which ended with the departure from power of Evo Morales, and that the administration Alberto Fernández considered as a "coup"
began to get complicated this Friday with cross information.
To begin with, what the provisional government of Jeanine Añez received - now imprisoned by the Arce administration - was 40 thousand AT12 / 70 cartridges;
18 MK-9 tear gas spray;
5 MK-4 tear gas spray;
50 CN gas grenades;
19 CS gas grenades, and 52 HC gas grenades. "This is not war material,
but riot gear.
Police sources consulted in Argentina
laughed at the confusion between war material - rifles or cannons - with riot police.
And they also considered that it was difficult for the Argentine security forces to possess the 40,000 cartridges mentioned above for themselves.
On the other hand, as revealed this Friday by the Bolivian newspaper
El Deber
, the lawyer of Gonzalo Terceros, former commander of the neighboring country's Air Force, his
signature was forged.
According to the complaint by Arce's foreign minister, Rogelio Mayta, presented on Thursday night, at a press conference, Terceros thanked the former Argentine ambassador in La Paz, Normando Alvarez Garcia, by letter for the alleged "shipment" of weapons with the Arce government and says that the macrismo
would have collaborated
with the alleged coup that ex-president Morales claims to have suffered.
It was in November 2019 when the police and the Bolivian Army "suggested" that he resign to calm the protest in the street that had left dozens of deaths.
The letter that the Bolivian authorities showed to denounce the collaboration of Mauricio Macri in the removal of Evo Morales.
"Today we have had access to a document that highlights two aspects: first, that the government of Macri of Argentina, in 2019, also provided equipment and material so that social protest can be repressed in order to consolidate the government that broke in the constitutional order, "Mayta began Thursday night.
It was at a conference that
was announced in an unprecedented way in advance by the government of Alberto Fernández
.
The President in turn quickly sent a letter to Arce apologizing for the alleged events attributed to Macri.
Mayta even compared the facts of which he accuses Macri with the "Plan Cóndor, the repressive operation of the dictatorships in the 1970s to repress opponents and resistance throughout the Southern Cone.
While some Fernandez ministers such as Felipe Solá and Agustin Rossi echoed the complaint, this Friday
Cristina Kirchner's lawyer began to harangue an international arrest warrant for Macri -
who is in Spain - by the Bolivian government.
But the complaint got bogged down this Friday when other voices got involved “If a comparison is made, at first glance, in graphology there are small points and a series of descriptions, that signature is drawn, different from the natural one.
Society must realize that this signature is adulterated, "lawyer Ever Vera told
El Deber.
Vera said that the alleged letter is dated November 13, 2019. Terceros left his duties on the 12th. And he said that a commander, who also went on active duty, does not thank an ambassador but rather his peer in rank.
The date, November 13 at mid-morning, the military command composed of General Kaliman, and the three generals, where Third Party was, present their resignation, at 3:00 p.m. the relief takes place, they did not have time to sign, issue documents, nothing, that day the new command at the head of Orellana took over, the outgoing command never extended its functions, they went to the active reserve, so they could not have issued any document, "the lawyer stressed to El Deber.
For their part, the president of PRO, Patricia Bullrich and former ambassador Alvarez Garcia also came out to express their position, who sent a letter to
Clarin
telling what happened in those days.
The former security minister published this Friday on her Facebook account that Argentina had indeed collaborated with Bolivia "by sending gendarmes to protect the Argentine Embassy in La Paz," which
Clarin
had anticipated
at the time, where they were members of the government of Evo Morales, including
his Minister of the Interior protected in our diplomatic territory
, "he said.
Bullrich spoke with
Clarín
during his return to Buenos Aires from San Nicolás -where he accompanied the protest of the field- and reiterated what was public at that time.
That Argentine gendarmerie "evacuated Argentine journalists who were in danger and Bolivian government officials from a hotel and accompanied them to the border."
Alvarez García said something similar in a letter sent to
Clarín,
affirming that in those days he "never" received an order of this nature and neither did he receive "any note" from Third Parties thanking them for the alleged shipment.
Alvarez Garcia recalled that in those days of November, in addition to protecting journalists at the Argentine embassy, he made a call to Buenos Aires to ask if Morales could be received, to which he received a refusal.
Morales ended up as a refugee
in Mexico for a few days
, then he was received in Argentina by Alberto Fernández as a refugee and from here he launched his campaign for the Movement to Socialism to regain power.
And so it happened when the now president Arce won the elections.
In November 2020, Fernández accompanied Evo Morales walking to the Jujuy border with Bolivia, in an epic act of support for his friend.