This file photo shows late ex president of Argentina Néstor Kirchner who died suddenly in 2010.
The head of ministers Jorge Capitanich and Victory Front MPs Aníbal Fernández and Carlos Kunkel were among the first Kirchnerites to fiercely condemn statements by union leader Luis Barrionuevo who said late Néstor Kirchner “screwed himself over by dying at 60” and accused the Kirchnerite administration of “stealing more than the military dictatorship” did while ruling Argentina during the dark years of the 70’s and 80’s.
Barrionuevo’s at least controversial comments “impacts me personally,” Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said this morning while addressing reporters at the Casa Rosada presidential palace, accusing the head of the anti-government CGT “Azul y Blanca” umbrella union of “degrading the memory” of Néstor Kirchner, whom Capitanich considered a “personal friend.”
On his behalf, Victory Front lawmaker and one of Kirchner’s closest Carlos Kunkel blasted Luis Barrionuevo as a “verbal violent” and a “personal coward.”
“He is a coward who fuels violence,” Kunkel said in statements to media today, criticizing ties between Barrionuevo and opposition leader Sergio Massa. Also head of the gastronomic workers’ union UTHGRA Barrionuevo is “playing” his cards in Massa’s Renewal Front, Kunkel affirmed.
Senator Aníbal Fernández, meanwhile, was more concise in his condemnation of Barrionuevo’s sayings considering the trade unionist was “trash.”
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