07/11/2021 10:42 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/11/2021 10:49 PM
While the Government advances in the hypothesis regarding the eventual crime of smuggling in the shipment of "war material" to Bolivia, the Security Minister of the previous administration, Patricia Bullrich, pointed out against her successor, Sabina Frederic.
In dialogue with the news channel
Crónica
, the president of the
PRO
said that what I did
n was "
saving lives
".
"We sent gendarmes with material, of course,
you cannot send them without anything or with a plastic pistol
. We sent a Hercules with 12 gendarmes with their equipment and with the request that it was necessary for the task we had to do," explained the former civil servant.
Bullrich announced that on Monday he will release "a very forceful document" to answer the current management of Frederic, who is polishing an internal investigation to determine whether any type of crime was committed during the egress and re-entry of the material sent to Bolivia in November 2019.
"We were in the government (the days after Evo Morales left) from November 12 to December 10. The gendarmes returned in June. So,
Frederic has to answer what he did and how he controlled that mission
from the 10th. from December to June. They spent much longer with that mission than we did, "Bullrich accused.
In addition, he said that this opens an issue "that until now no one has raised."
"Frederic monitored what that group that was there for so many months did. How much ammunition they used, how. What did they do. She spent seven months with that mission and I 19 days," he reiterated.
And he insisted that the only thing they did "was
protect our embassy
and the journalists who were at risk."
"
We had to evacuate them
.
We evacuated
officials from our embassy, asylees and who were all from Evo Morales. We did what has to be done and should be done," he estimated.
Finally, he assured that Frederic's document "says a lot."
"He said that it was wrong to send the Scorpions, which is the special gendarmerie group, that they had to send riot control groups. How are you going to send them if you don't want to get involved in the demonstrations? total ignorance, "concluded Bullrich.
The letter that the Bolivian authorities showed to denounce the collaboration of Mauricio Macri in the removal of Evo Morales.
Bolivia's complaint
The Bolivian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Rogelio Mayta
, denounced last Thursday in a press conference that the government of Mauricio Macri collaborated with the dismissal of the then president Evo Morales in 2019
"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 government, "Mayta said.
The official understood that these events, saving the historical differences, reminded him of the "Condor Plan."
And then he showed the letter allegedly sent by the then general commander of the Bolivian Air Force,
Jorge Gonzalo Terceros Lara
, where he "thanked" the former Argentine ambassador,
Normando Álvarez García
, "for the collaboration provided."
The chancellor of that moment, Jorge Faurie, came out to detach himself and was unaware of such a letter.
"
No material of any kind was sent
through the Argentine Foreign Ministry
. Neither papers, tear gas, nor any other element, since I have no knowledge of which ones the military authority thanked the Argentine ambassador at that time. ", He said.
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