Effects of election victory far right inside Argentina Always prone to orient themselves with the new winds of politics, they are beginning to make their mark in the courts. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner He will end his term as vice president on December 10. On Tuesday afternoon, the court of second instance, the Federal Chamber of the City of Buenos Aires, ordered the reopening of the investigation against him for alleged money laundering during his Government (2007-15). Call “K money way“.Judges Mariano Llorens and Pablo BertuzzI annulled by a narrow majority the decision of Judge Sebastián Casanello, who rejected as a plaintiff the NGO Bases Republicans, which, according to analysts, was close to the former right-wing president Mauricio Macri, who was trying to become a force in the market. The shadow of Javier Milei’s future presidency.
The trial began a decade ago, with the weakening of Fernández de Kirchner’s rule, and ended with the conviction of construction businessman Lázaro Báez, who was closely linked to Néstor Kirchner in his early days. Last September, the Federal Court of Criminal Appeals also annulled two lower court decisions that favored the current vice president: First, an alleged cover-up of Iranians accused of being behind an anti-Semitic attack that killed 83 people in Argentina in 1994. capital city. The case was closed because it was thought that trying to obtain investigative statements from these people did not constitute a crime within the framework of the agreement with Tehran that was never fulfilled. At the same time, a case was reopened regarding alleged money laundering through two family hotels in Patagonia.
Fernández de Kirchner is 70 years old, and political and personal disagreements put his administration at odds with outgoing president Alberto Fernández. Adding to the sense of failure of a Government promising to “come back better” than previous Kirchnerian administrations is the judicial siege, which includes a six-year prison sentence and a permanent ban from public office for corruption in public administration. Works. . The vice president called the decision a farce aimed at outlawing him. He said the failed assassination attempt against him could not be understood without these motivations.
Macri’s situation
The events involving Fernández de Kirchner are just one side of the coin that is compatible with political changes. The Federal Court of Criminal Appeals confirmed that Macri and his Intelligence service swordsmen Gustavo Héctor Arribas and Silvia Majdalani will not be investigated for spying on their relatives. Victims of the ARA San Juan submarine, which sank with 44 crew members in the South Atlantic in 2017. The court confirmed the appeals court’s criteria: Intelligence missions existed, but they were not criminal. The judges who made this decision in July were Llorens and Bertuzzi, who ordered the reopening of the case against the vice president.
Fernández de Kirchner wrote onImagine that there are still people in Argentina who talk about the independence of the judiciary. and their faces do not fall. Mamita!” Llorens and Bertuzzi have been related to Macrismo since 2015. The former judge regularly visited the then-president both at the Executive Center and at the presidential residence on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, which coincided with statements made by the right-wing government judicial proceedings that he considered sensitive. Bertuzzi attended the court of second instance without the necessary constitutional assistance. Fernández de Kirchner, in his trill, referred to another judicial incident that resonated in a football-loving country: the former president succeeded with Elections in Boca Juniors have been postponedThis is the most popular club in the country. Its candidate Andrés Ibarra competes at a disadvantage with the club’s idol and former FC Barcelona player Juan Román Riquelme.
military prisoners
After Milei takes office, the judicial horizon will include other fronts: the fate of soldiers convicted of recent crimes against humanity. dictatorship (1976-83). Approximately 1,200 people received sentences, many of them exemplary. Vice president-elect Victoria Villarruel challenged the processes that marked the first two decades of this century.
In this context, the Union of Promotions, a group of officials who reject cases against humanity, openly asked the elected president to “final solution” and “quick execution” for former “unjustly detained” men in uniform. The electoral victory of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) had an unprecedented component in relation to other elections: a large number of former oppressors under the house arrest regime decided to vote for the anarcho went Other prisoners were predicting the coming of the capitalist era. Revenge and political demand. The expectations of the families of military personnel serving their sentences are; presidential pardon or eliminating preventive prisons. Besides Villarruel Guillermo Francos, The future Minister of Internal Affairs spoke about the second scenario. “There are numerous cases of soldiers being held in prison for many years without any sentencing or trial,” he said.