Brenda Uliarte is the girlfriend of Fernando Sabag Montiel, the 35-year-old man who on September 1 fired twice at the head of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
That night she was in front of the house of the vice president of Argentina.
She escaped after hearing the trigger click
twice
and seeing his partner running through the crowd before being caught.
The attack had failed, because of a gun with no bullets in the chamber.
Uliarte, 23, took refuge in the house of a former partner.
Days later she was imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in attempted assassination.
But the messages that she exchanged before and after the attack place her more and more as an organizer.
"I sent a guy to kill Cristi," he tells Agustina Díaz, a friend that Uliarte had scheduled as "love of my life."
Diaz was arrested Monday, accused of knowing all the details of the attack.
The message arrived on Díaz's phone after August 27, after Sabag Montiel and Uliarte had aborted a first assassination attempt.
The exchange was published in full by the Argentine newspaper
La Nación
.
“I ordered Vice Cristina to be killed.
She didn't come out because she went inside.
A anger I swear, I had it there.
I sent a guy to kill Cristi,” Uliarte tells Díaz, who assumes that the attacker was a hired hitman.
"Good idea anyway.
How much did he charge you?” asks the friend.
"She didn't charge me.
She did it because she's also overheated with what's going on.
I swear I'm going to lower that one.
She has me rotten [fed up] that she is stealing and I went unpunished, ”replies Uliarte.
Díaz celebrates the plan, but warns his friend of the danger.
“You realize the quilombo [mess] you are going to get into, don't you?” she tells him.
“They are going to look for you everywhere if they find out that you are an accomplice in the death of the vice president.”
"That's why I sent someone," Uliarte replies.
On Thursday night, September 1, Sabag Montiel and Uliarte finally found the moment to shoot the former president.
Some 300 people crowded in front of Kirchner's apartment in the Recoleta neighborhood.
Thus, they fulfilled a rite that began on August 22, hours after a prosecutor requested 12 years in prison against the former president for alleged corruption.
Kirchnerism took to the streets in defense of the leader of the movement and Recoleta became a center of pilgrimage.
The decision of the Government of the city of Buenos Aires, in opposition hands, to fence the corner where Kirchner lives ended in clashes with the police.
On the night of the attack, the crowd was back.
When the vice president was about to greet her followers, a hand emerged from behind the crowd,
he aimed at the head and fired twice without the bullet coming out.
Sabag Montiel tried to escape, but was caught by the public.
Uliarte was that night in front of Kirchner's house and fled.
The exchange of messages with Díaz resumed.
“Do you know how much twine [money] you need for that?
It is not a command to kill and I am moving out of the country,” Díaz warns Uliarte about the difficulties of escaping after the failed attack.
The woman then wonders what could have gone wrong.
“But what's up, why did the shot miss?
Didn't you practice before or did the adrenaline of the moment fail you?
And she recommends her friend to get rid of her mobile phone and delete all her social media accounts to cover traces.
All the information on Sabag Montiel's mobile phone was lost due to the inexperience of the Federal Police, who in an attempt to unlock it erased all its content.
The court then transferred responsibility for the expertise to the Airport Security Police.
What turned out to be a gold mine was Uliarte's device.
There they found, in addition to hundreds of WhatsApp messages, photos of the couple posing with the weapon used in the attack and messages encouraging an attack.
“We have to generate facts, not protests” or “we must not keep bitching, we must take action.
Let's put a Molotov cocktail in the Casa Rosada”, are some of the texts that the couple exchanged.
For Justice, the investigators are facing a "planned attack" to "kill Cristina Kirchner" with a "prior agreement between the two."
The great mystery is whether all these people acted on their own initiative or motivated by a third party wishing to generate a serious political crisis in Argentina.
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