Guido Carelli Lynch
07/10/2021 10:56
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/10/2021 11:01
After the
Bolivian government denounced
the alleged shipment of war material during the days after
Evo Morales'
forced resignation
to the presidency, the
Alberto Fernández
administration
accelerates the internal audit to find out possible irregularities of the
Mauricio Macri
government
.
The Ministry of Security confirmed through a report the departure of
an Air Force Hercules plane
from the El Palomar airport in which members of the elite group of Alacrán Gendarmerie traveled with weapons.
So far, the head of the Security Portfolio
Sabina Fre
deric has transferred to the Presidency documentation that verifies the shipment of
10 semiautomatic pistols; 2 repeating shotguns; 5 automatic carbines; 2 machine guns; 2 repeating rifles; 12 bulletproof vests; 12 ballistic helmets; 2 ballistic shields
; 2 night sights and 8,820 ammunition of different calibers, of which 3,600 were 12-70 caliber. The transfer of the arsenal has the approval of the National Agency for Controlled Materials (ANMAC), the former Renar, dated November 11, a day after Morales' resignation. On November 12, it was requested and authorized to expand to
70,000 anti-riot cartridges brand Fabricaciones Militares and 100 pepper spray and 661 grenades.
hand-held gas harassment.
According to Argentine officials, the material registered for the shipment represents nothing more than a minimal fraction than that denounced by the government of Luis Arce.
The same Hercules plane would have returned to Argentina with 40,000 ammunition.
“They left with 70,000 ammunition and returned with 40,000.
30,000 were lost on the way,
"said an official who follows in the footsteps of the President.
In the Argentine Executive they insist that, if the elements authorized for shipment and the Bolivian Police records are compared, the arrival of weapons that left Argentina is not recorded.
The official presumption is that the Bolivian security forces illegally seized part of the arsenal.
In the Bolivian police registry, no mention is made of hand grenades,
pr and anti tumult, and only 1,350 cartridges appear out
of the 70,000 that appear in the registry carried out in Argentina.
On the other hand, the Bolivian forces registered a bomb blanket and metal detectors that do not appear in the inventory of the Argentine forces.
The Security Portfolio released the Federal Police from responsibility for sending the material.
"
All roads lead to the Gendarmerie,
" they say.
The accountability of the
Financial Administrative Service of Gendarmería
reported on July 15, 2020 that the special forces sent to La Paz provided security to the embassy from November 2019 to June of last year and adds that training exercises and training exercises were carried out. I shot with the weapons that were carried in the commission and that 70 thousand 12.70 MM caliber cartridges were used, a detail that for Frederic represents a double inconsistency. Due to the type and quantity of weapons and because the Alacrán group is not prepared to do training with these ammunition. L "The groups destined for this type of mission are the Mobile Anti-riot Detachments," they reported in Security.
“It turns out that they went to perform training duties in the middle of a riot. We are seeing if all this departure from the country of forces and arms was done legally. There must be the endorsement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Jorge Faurie has already said that he did not participate. They are admitting that there was smuggling, ”
a close collaborator of the President
told
Clarín
.
At the Casa Rosada, for now, they have no plans to take action against Macri or former officials. They assume that Justice could act ex officio. In Bolivia there is already a complaint in progress. For now, the Executive seeks to define responsibilities in the security forces and does not rule out administrative sanctions if it is shown that all the necessary legal procedures were not fulfilled. They claim that Customs and Foreign Ministry authorizations are lacking for now. In the privacy of Olivos they speak of an "international scandal", which will have its counterpart in international courts. They highlight that members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The Government first learned of the shipment of weapons by the Bolivian administration.
Later, the current Argentine ambassador
Ariel Basteiro
reported directly to the President.
The Argentine representative in La Paz circulated the entry book of the diplomatic headquarters, which contains the letter of thanks from the former head of the Bolivian Air Force to the government for sending the material.
On Friday, Commander Jorge Gonzalo Terceros Laraque denounced that his signature had been forged.
Alberto Fernández had dinner with Evo Morales, in Olivos, in 2020.
Before and after the zoom that he held on Thursday with the Bolivian president to record a message for the commemoration of the Argentine-Bolivian fellowship, which can be seen this Sunday on TVP, Fernández spoke with Arce about the complaints. The Bolivian president told him that his foreign minister would hold a press conference to denounce Macri. This Friday, Bolivian Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo assured that the former president participated in the overthrow of Morales.
Former Security Minister
Patricia Bullrich
reported this Friday that the dispatch of the gendarmes was to preserve the security of the Argentine embassy in La Paz, where two former Morales ministers had requested asylum. "The Gendarmerie evacuated Argentine journalists who were in danger and Bolivian government officials from a hotel, and accompanied them to the border," said the president of the PRO, who assured that the alleged request for weapons for the Bolivian Air Force.
A resolution signed by Bullrich, dated November 15, authorizes the dispatch of the Gendarmerie for that purpose. "
It is a scandalous fact that shows the support of the president of Macri for the coup
and support for the seditious forces," Minister Frederic said in statements to CNN.
The incident brings Macri and Bullrich back into the ring, who last week decided to drop his candidacy in the City to form a unit list. "Perhaps now it is understood why he dropped his candidacy. If it is found that the Ministry of Security had participation, as the Chancellor said, they are weapons that correspond to the Police and Gendarmerie, there is a political responsibility that will go down, starting with Macri ", said Leandro Santoro, virtual head of the ruling party list in the Capital and advisor to the President.