The Argentine saga of the plane of the Venezuelan company Emtrasur Cargo, purchased in turn by Chavismo from the Iranian Maham Air, will come to an end this weekend because in hours
it will be taken from Ezeiza to the United States.
The aircraft was handed over by the Argentine justice system to the American one, which
requested its confiscation in 2022
.
High sources confirmed the information that they will take him away between this Saturday night and early Monday morning, but asked to avoid giving details about the time he will leave.
The aircraft is impeccable and as
Clarín
has been reporting , US officials performed permanent maintenance on it so
that it did not lose its flight capacity, they loaded it with fuel, made it taxi on the runway and even fixed its front axle.
There are sheriffs, agents and officials from the United States working on it with the new Argentine authorities of the Ministries of Security, Justice and Interior (for Immigration) so that its takeoff is a process of maximum secrecy.
It occurs in the middle of a
dark episode
that occurred on February 5 when the now former first secretary of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Argentina, Jesús Jara Díaz, was detained in Ezeiza photographing an official of the United States Embassy here and the secretary of the federal court of Federico Villena.
These last two were checking the aircraft.
Jesús Jara Díaz, who arrived in the country in 2020, was a man declared
“persona non grata”
by the Argentine Foreign Ministry .
And he had to leave the country.
Now Nicolás Maduro's ambassador to Argentina, Stella Lugo, was left in a difficult position to maintain because
she could not ignore such an illegal act by her second in airport security.
The Boeing 747-300 adapted as a freighter was detained in Ezeiza in June 2022, when it landed because it needed fuel and no oil company then agreed to supply it, since
the aircraft is subject to the complex system of sanctions of the United States
for alleged use for
activities international
terrorists
.
Boeing is of American origin.
Furthermore, at the time, the mysterious
crew of 14 Venezuelans and five Iranians
, whose objectives for traveling here were never known, was finally released - they all went to their countries - but is still being investigated in a case in which the DAIA presented itself as complainant for links such as the terrorism of Iran's Al Quds Forces.
While Tehran made several diplomatic demands to the Argentine Foreign Ministry asking for its citizens, Maduro and his ministers took to the Venezuelan streets and on the networks with a nationalist campaign demanding for their people and for the Argentines to "return the plane."
At the beginning of January,
federal judge Villena, of Lomas de Zamora, who has jurisdiction over the Ezeiza international airport, accepted the request of the United States
and, after a long judicial and political saga - in which La Cámpora participated, in the domain of Justice and the Airport Security Police until December - ordered the delivery of the aircraft to the United States.
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