Bernardo Vazquez
08/12/2021 7:28 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/12/2021 7:28 PM
On
Tuesday, July 14, 2020,
in which Fabiola Yáñez celebrated her 39th birthday at Quinta de Olivos - accompanied by Alberto Fernández and nine other guests who were photographed without a chinstrap and without respecting the distance - in the city and province of Buenos Aires
governed mandatory isolation, there were 300,000 shops closed throughout the AMBA
and you had to travel by public transport with permission to circulate.
The photo of the controversy shows the couple of the President of the Nation celebrating his anniversary with Fernández and a group of friends who attended the presidential residence.
But then another image was added, more expanded, showing Yáñez, Fernández and nine other guests who that day entered Olivos at night, starting at 9:30 p.m., and leaving after 1:45 on July 15.
At that time,
the confinement was strict in the entire metropolitan area
, for which private meetings were prohibited, according to the DNU that the President himself had signed two weeks before, on June 29, when a series of meetings had been established. criteria to reinforce the quarantine, which came from a looser stage previously after the initial lockdown that had been decided on March 20.
In article 29 of that decree published in the Official Gazette
the sanctions to which those who breached the quarantine could be exposed were described
.
"When the existence of an infringement of compliance with 'social, preventive and compulsory distancing', of 'social, preventive and compulsory isolation' or of other regulations established for the protection of public health in the framework of the public emergency in the matter of sanitary, the offending conduct will be immediately ceased and the competent authority will be acted upon, within the framework of articles 205, 239 and those corresponding to the Penal Code ".
An extract from the DNU of June 29, 2020 signed by Alberto Fernández.
The
205
proposes
prison sentences of six months to two years
for anyone who "violates the measures taken by the competent authorities, to prevent the introduction or spread of an epidemic." The
239
, meanwhile, mark "
shall be punished with imprisonment of fifteen days to one year
, which resistiere or disobeys a public official in the legitimate exercise of their duties".
In a joint recorded message that Fernández, Axel Kicillof and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta had given,
it had been decided to limit circulation in the AMBA
, to require circulation permits from those who were going to work and for 300,000 non-essential businesses to close their doors.
A quarantine as hard, almost, as the first, three months before.
In the week of July 14,
Argentina had reached 100,000 cases
, a conclusive figure for the time, and that specific day had registered 65 deaths from coronavirus, a daily record until then, although a week before the President stated that "we are passing the contagion peak ", contrary to epidemiologists, who asked for caution.
The image disseminated on social networks with the celebration in Olivos,
That statement by Fernández somehow led to the fact that
on Friday the 17th, three days of Yáñez's birthday, the Government lifted some restrictions
and the opening of shops and the return of running were enabled in the City, and in the Province more industries were added to activity.
In those days, in addition, Fernández was at the beginning of the conflict with hard Kirchnerism due to management decisions that had not gone down well with the Instituto Patria.
Those were times of tension between Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner.
On Saturday, July 4, for example,
Fabián Gutiérrez, Cristina Kirchner's former private secretary
,
had been found dead in Santa Cruz
.
A day later, Alberto Fernández considered "rogue" the insinuations that emerged from the opposition that Gutiérrez's murder was linked to his participation as a repentant in the Cuadernos case.
But nevertheless
,
On Monday the 13th, Fernández and opposition leaders held a virtual meeting in which the President promised "a post-pandemic plan." On Tuesday 14, Yáñez's birthday, Christianity went out to hit the President with heavy artillery, through Hebe de Bonafini and Cristina Kirchner herself for having received businessmen in Olivos on July 9. In addition, the internal tension over the reversal with the expropriation of Vicentin was still latent. "I was wrong", assumed by then Fernández.
That July 14
, in addition, in the United States began to test the first vaccine developed in the country against Covid-19, the Argentine soccer teams were waiting for authorization to be able to train, it was 231 years since the French Revolution and
the blue dollar It was selling for $ 127.51
pesos less than its current price.
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