08/06/2021 11:22
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/06/2021 11:22
The governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales, will be the
father of a girl at age 62 with his wife Tulia Snopek
.
The baby will be called Guadalupe and will be the fourth daughter of the president of the UCR, who already has three from his previous marriage.
The matter was an open secret in Jujuy until, a few days ago, the president himself told about it on his social networks, in the middle of the Pacha Mama celebrations, on August 1.
"THANK YOU PACHA. Thankful to our Mother Earth for life, energy and everything she gives us.
We ask for our long-awaited Guada
, for our families, for Jujuy, for our country, the health and prosperity of our people," Morales wrote On twitter.
The post was accompanied by photos of the ceremony to Mother Earth in which Tulia showed her pregnant belly in the middle of the Pachamama ritual.
THANK YOU PACHA
Grateful to our Mother Earth for life, energy and everything she gives us.
We ask for our long-awaited Guada, for our families, for Jujuy, for our country, the health and prosperity of our people.
pic.twitter.com/xFDgCKW50E
- Gerardo Morales (@GerardoMorales) August 1, 2021
Morales and Snopek
were married on December 7, 2018
in an indigenous ceremony in Purmamarca.
The celebration began with an offering from the couple to the Pachamama, prior to the marriage, to ask that "everything that this new couple and family lives and undertakes has the protection and accompaniment of Mother Earth and all the energies."
Family members and spiritual guides Wanka Wilka, Kusikilla and a Peruvian shaman participated in this rite.
Later, some 800 guests came to the party, including local leaders and militants of radicalism and Cambiemos.
The wedding of Gerardo Morales in Purmamarca.
Some 800 guests participated in
the party,
including leaders and local activists of the UCR-Cambiemos who came to the town nestled in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, 65 kilometers from the capital of Jujuy.
"May the Pacha enlighten us and give us the wisdom to continue fighting for our love and thus have a future as a family," said the Jujuy governor that day.
“We want to have a child, God wants it to be given to us.
It would be a way to seal the family that we already are ”, Snopek had marked before the wedding.
Gerardo Morales and Tulia Snopek were married in an indigenous ceremony in Purmamarca.
Photographer Valera Edgardo.
What's more, in an interview in May, Morales had left a clue about his paternity, which went almost unnoticed.
In the midst of the political debate, the conversation took a more trivial tangent and the Jujuy spoke of cartoons.
"Goku is my idol, with my sons Gastón and Facundo we watched Dragon Ball, I also liked it, I watched every night.
And I think I will continue to watch boys' programs in the future,
" he said.
Tulia Snopek, meanwhile, is also the mother of three children, Milagros, Gregorio and Mauricio.
A lawyer by profession, she was recently appointed alternate director on the YPF board of directors.
Another who was a father after 60 years in the UCR was Senator Julio Cobos.
The former vice president of the Nation had the father of Isabella, his fourth daughter, at age 65 (three years more than the Jujuy has), on April 21.
Very excited with the arrival of our baby, Isabella !!
Happy to have you already here, among us.
Welcome, we love you daughter!
❤️ pic.twitter.com/mIwKQvnC51
- Julio Cobos (@juliocobos) April 21, 2021
Between the campaign and the baby
Thus, two years later, and in the middle of an electoral campaign that has Gerardo Morales as one of the authorized voices of the UCR in the tense relationship with the PRO by the inmates within Juntos por el Cambio, the Jujeño's agenda has a only priority: the imminent birth of her daughter.
Gerardo Morales with Facundo Manes and Martín Lousteau, in Jujuy.
As
Clarín
learned
, the president had to decline invitations from national television programs, to return to Jujuy to be present at the delivery that, according to relatives of Jujuy, will be in a matter of days.
In recent weeks, the Jujuy took an elected role when crossing the Buenos Aires head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, for what he called "attacks" against Facundo Manes, a radical candidate for deputy in the intern against Diego Santilli in the province of Buenos Aires.
”Horacio Rodríguez Larreta is responsible for the attacks on Facundo Manes.
He is believed to be the owner of Juntos por el Cambio and has put on the suit of president before becoming one, "fired the governor, who already told his co-religionists that he himself intends to present himself in 2023 as a candidate for the UCR.
And he added: "Just that we have always convinced a radical to enter politics, he is attacked. The problem is that if he had entered politics through the PRO, there is no problem, the issue is that he enters through radicalism."
His intervention also triggered a response within the UCR itself.
From the Buenos Aires radicalism, allied to Larreta, the deputy Emiliano Yacobitti, who responds to Martín Lousteau, came out to answer him.
He argued that the neuroscientist's candidacy "goes on the same path as the construction of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who seeks to expand the space and make it more dynamic, knowing that diversity and different views strengthen us and make us more competitive."
Gerardo Morales and Tulia Snopek.
And he launched: "If something can threaten the unity of Together for Change, it is to stop its renewal
on behalf of its original 'bosses' (or CEO's)
. JXC is a living force because, fundamentally, it is and is in its voters" .
A man of direct words, Morales fought him with a paraphrase.
"The saying says that you have to hit the pig so that the owner appears,"
Gerardo Morales
told
Clarín
. "In this case it is:
'You
have to hit the pig so that
its employees appear,'
" he launched.
The Jujuy governor insisted: "The problem in Buenos Aires radicalism is that there are many Larreta employees. The radicals are not going to allow Larreta to colonize the party."
The Milagro Sala case
Another aspect that put Jujuy on the agenda days ago was the situation of Milagro Sala, the leader of the Tupac Amaru, to whom a sector of Kirchnerism asks to
pardon her convictions for corruption.
"There is no possibility, under any point of view. I told the President, Sergio Massa, Wado de Pedro, Santiago Cafiero and
Máximo Kirchner that they shot me in the head before,
" said the governor of Jujuy before the Consultation on a possible pardon to the activist of the Tupac Amaru.
"Justice is working," he concluded.
Morales demanded that the most ultra-Kirchnerist sectors of the Government "end the story" and assured that, from his home, where he is under house arrest, Sala "continues to organize acts of violence."
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