Uruguay apuesta al ‘sinceramiento’ con Argentina, pero luego de CFK

Felipe Mar 1, 2015

En Montevideo creen que será difícil relanzar la agenda bilateral antes de diciembre. Vázquez prefiere a Scioli. Mercosur en la mira.
Tabaré Vázquez asume la presidencia de Uruguay con el desafío de reparar el desgastado vínculo de su país con la Argentina. Su futuro canciller, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, prometió trabajar por un “sinceramiento” de la relación. Pero el comienzo de la nueva etapa deberá esperar al menos hasta fin de año: en Montevideo creen que no será posible avanzar en la agenda bilateral hasta que Cristina Kirchner abandone el poder y asuma un nuevo gobierno tras las elecciones de diciembre.
“Por el resto de 2015, construir el diálogo no será fácil –dijo a PERFIL un funcionario uruguayo abocado a la relación entre ambos países–. En la Argentina habrá elecciones y en Uruguay, un gobierno recién asumido. Va a ser un año para flotar, para pilotearla y esperar a que pase”.

El nuevo embajador uruguayo en Buenos Aires será el ex ministro Héctor Lescano, un hombre del riñón de Vázquez. Sin embargo, desde Uruguay le habrían solicitado al actual embajador, Guillermo Pomi, que estire su permanencia en el puesto –que debería dejar en abril– unos meses, ya que consideran útil su buena relación con el kirchnerismo para lo que ven como un período de “transición”.
Al igual que José Mujica, Vázquez tiene una clara preferencia por Daniel Scioli entre los candidatos presidenciales argentinos. Ambos mantienen un fluido trato, que además podría verse potenciado por la figura del futuro vicepresidente uruguayo, Raúl Sendic, con buena llegada al oficialismo argentino. No obstante, en Montevideo afirman que en el equipo de Vázquez hay predisposición a tender puentes “con todos”, también con Mauricio Macri y Sergio Massa.

Si en algo habrá contraste entre Mujica y Tabaré, será en el estilo y en las formas. Ocurrirá así en la política doméstica y también en las relaciones exteriores. “Con Pepe, él mandaba y los demás acompañábamos, incluido el canciller –comentó un diplomático cercano a Mujica–. Ahora va a estar todo más ordenadito, con más espacio para la formalidad y la diplomacia tradicional”.
La cuestión del Mercosur y la integración comercial es quizás el punto en la agenda que suscitó más críticas hacia la Argentina por parte del gobierno de Mujica en los últimos años. “La Argentina no acompaña un carajo la integración regional”, protestó el jefe de Estado uruguayo en una entrevista que ofreció a este diario la semana pasada.

En Uruguay están convencidos de que mientras la Argentina no acepte íntegramente el liderazgo regional de Brasil la integración del Mercosur seguirá estancada, lo que a su vez impedirá la construcción de estrategias exteriores en bloque, como la firma de un tratado de libre comercio con la Unión Europea. Por eso es factible que Vázquez siga “mirando hacia el Norte” y prosiga con el acercamiento comercial a los Estados Unidos que ya comenzó durante la gestión de Mujica.

Abrazo simbólico para Mujica

Como parte de la tradición uruguaya, José Mujica encabezó ayer la habitual ceremonia del “abrazo simbólico” a Uruguay. En el protocolario acto de corte militar, al que asistieron multitud de representantes institucionales, se arrió la bandera uruguaya que ondeó en la sede de la Presidencia bajo el mandato a finalizar y se le entregó simbólicamente al presidente saliente. Luego se realizó una conferencia en el Salón Azul de la Intendencia en la que Mujica disertó sobre “los desafíos de la sociedad del futuro”. La misma estaba enmarcada en un el seminario internacional “Izquierda y proyectos progresistas en la región: desafíos para seguir cambiando”, organizado por la Fundación Líber Seregni, La Fundación Friedrich Ebert y el Frente Amplio. El mes pasado, diversos ciudadanos ajenos al ámbito político querían convertir el acto en un homenaje a la figura de Mujica, pero éste se negó rotundamente.

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Aparecieron los afiches convocando al #1M…

Chiara Feb 26, 2015

TODOS CON CRISTINA…

La movida la empezó la militancia tuitera K a través de las redes sociales el pasado 20 de febrero. Allí, comenzó a circular el hashtag #1MTodosConCristina con fotos y mensajes que convocan a “bancar a Cristina” en su último mensaje como Presidenta de la Nación en la inauguración de las sesiones ordinarias.

 “Si nosotros no aflojamos, ella tampoco”, rezan los mensajes en las redes sociales para “bancar” el proyecto Nac&Pop.

La convocatoria se dio dos días después de la histórica marcha del 18F, organizada por los fiscales tras la muerte de Alberto Nisman.

Esta mañana, aparecieron los primeros afiches convocando a la misma movida. Allí puede ver un escueto mensaje: “CFK. Domingo primero de marzo. 12 hs. Congreso”.

El llamamiento —firmado por el Frente para la Victoria— está hecho, ahora habrá que ver si alguien asiste a la convocatoria gubernamental…

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Carlés jumps first Supreme hurdle

Felipe Feb 26, 2015

CFK’s nominee to replace Zaffaroni receives more support than rejections

Roberto Carlés, the Executive’s nominee to replace former justice Eugenio Zaffaroni at the Supreme Court, is on the verge of successfully passing the first stage of his nomination to the country’s highest tribunal.

Carlés has been backed by several criminal law experts and human rights organizations and challenged by the Buenos Aires City Bar Association — by far the biggest obstacle he’s had to face so far.

Today is the deadline for submitting letters challenging or endorsing Carlés’ nomination. Sources inside the Justice Ministry yesterday told the Herald that the office headed by Julio Alak was ready to issue a brief recommending President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner continue with his nomination, which will have to be discussed in the Senate.

The ruling Victory Front (FpV) is short of the two-thirds majority needed to appoint a member to the Supreme Court. That means the government is counting on a possible alliance with dissident Peronists — with some even suggesting that a good word from Pope Francis could help turn the tables in favour of Carlés.

Carlés is seen as the “pontiff’s candidate” due to their close relationship.

Although there is still time to file endorsements or challenges today, sources from the Justice Ministry told the Herald that the endorsement letters prevailed over the others, making it clear that the Kirchnerite administration is getting ready to give the green light to his nomination before the Senate, where 29 members of the opposition have already signed a document committing themselves not to vote for Zaffaroni’s successor while Fernández de Kirchner remains in office.

On January 28, Alak nominated 33-year-old Carlés to take Zaffaroni’s seat at the central courthouse located on Comodoro Py. Carlés is seen as Zaffaroni’s dauphin, although he also has been critical at times of the former justice.

Carlés is the coordinator of the drafting commission created by Fernández de Kirchner to overhaul the Penal Code. In conversation with the Herald, Zaffaroni said 2015 was not the right time to discuss a criminal reform but Carlés told this newspaper that he believed an electoral year was the best moment to hold that discussion.

Carlés is seen by opposition leaders as a Kirchnerite activist — a characterization he has dismissed, although he has held some public arguments with Renewal Front leader Sergio Massa, who opposed the debate over the Penal Code reform, saying the bill was too soft on criminals. Carlés used his Twitter account to criticize opposition politicians who refused to discuss the reform.

Support

Carlés’ nomination has been backed by the International Association of Criminal Law, which is the world’s largest group of criminal law experts. The national chapter of that group also sent a letter endorsing Carlés’ candidacy to the highest tribunal as well as the youth group of the association.

The American Association of Jurists and its national chapter also expressed their support for the 33-year-old jurist.

Human rights organizations have also backed Carlés’ nomination, such as Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo head Estela Barnes de Carlotto or Hebe Pastor de Bonafini, the head of the Association of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Bonafini has long been a close friend of Zaffaroni, who has also expressed his satisfaction with Carlés’ nomination.

“Carlés’ nomination for the Supreme Court was a nice surprise for me. He will be able to provide the Court with the thinking of a young generation of jurists,” Zaffaroni — who on December 31 stepped down from the country’s highest tribunal — wrote in Infojus, the news website run by the Justice Ministry.

Zaffaroni dismissed those who said Carlés was too young to be appointed to the tribunal led by Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti.

“I cannot forget I was 28 when I was designated judge for an oral court. I was 33 when I became a provincial attorney general and 35 when I was appointed federal judge in a BA City criminal court,” Zaffaroni added.

“Age discrimination is more perverse than any other form of discrimination,” the 75-year-old criminal law expert concluded.

Zaffaroni’s colleagues at the country’s highest tribunal decided to keep mum about Carlés’ candidacy. A justice was heard saying that he did not know Carlés and had only heard about him through Zaffaroni.

But there were other judges and officials who backed his candidacy.

Daniel Erbetta, a member of the Santa Fe Supreme Court, has endorsed Carlés’ nomination as has his colleague Omar Palermo, from Mendoza’s highest tribunal. Necochea Judge Mario Juliano also joined them along with Carlos Parma, a magistrate from Mendoza.

The Solicitor General’s Office also supported Carlés as well as bar associations from La Matanza and Quilmes in Buenos Aires province, among others.

Carlés was also endorsed by Legitimate Justice, the association that backed the judicial democratization package sponsored in 2013 by the president and then quashed by the Supreme Court. Legitimate Justice’s nemesis, the conservative Magistrates Association’s opinion was requested by the Justice Ministry but the group that gathers together judges and prosecutors declined to comment.

Commission

Carlés is still working on the recommendations that were issued by scholars for the Penal Code bill. He is expected along with Zaffaroni to sum up the comments to be sent to the Executive. Justice Secretary Julián Álvarez said last year that the government wanted the bill to be debated this year, after being postponed last year following criticism from Massa’s Renewal Front and several other opposition leaders, including Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri, who had a representative at the drafting commission, PRO party lawmaker Federico Pinedo.

The only member of the drafting commission to endorse Carlés’ nomination was León Arslanián, former BA province Security minister and one of the judges in charge of the 1985 trial against the military leaders of the 1976-1983 dictatorship. Former Radical party (UCR) lawmaker Ricardo Gil Lavedra was also part of the commission as was former Socialist Party (PS) lawmaker María Elena Barbagelata.

After his nomination, Pinedo praised Carlés but the senators of his party have signed the agreement to block any nomination during Fernández de Kirchner’s last months in office.

A Kirchnerite source said government allies did not know if they could gather the necessary votes in the Senate to approve Carlés’ appointment but he also said that they trusted the Holy See to collect the missing support.

Carlés has long had a close relationship with Pope Francis, who backed his proposal to reform the 1921 Penal Code.

“I met the pope in the middle of the anti-Code campaign. He was well-informed and he also was aware that all penal reforms in Latin America had followed a dangerous path because they had given more power to security forces. He agrees that we are talking about human beings and that’s why we have to take into account, among other things, their detention conditions. That’s the main difference with punitive demagoguery, which always takes aim at low-income sectors,” Carlés told the Herald when he was asked whether Jorge Bergoglio should be seen as a backer of the reform.

Carlés met Bergoglio when he was a schoolboy. And the two are united not just over religious belief but also their passion for the football club San Lorenzo.

Challenges

A source from the Justice Ministry yesterday made it clear that the most serious obstacle Carlés faces was the filing by the BA City Bar Association.

Carlés wrote in his resumé that he worked as a consultant for the BA City Bar Association in 2004. Carlés later explained that he had misstated and was, in fact, an intern. According to the criminal law expert, he arrived at the BA City Bar Association due to his links with the UCR youth organization Franja Morada.

He was also criticized for not informing that he worked for the Senate in 2012.

The conservative National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences opposed Carlés’ nomination as well. Last year, the Academy was one of the most active supporters of Vicente Massot, the director of Bahía Blanca’s ultra-conservative daily La Nueva Provincia, charged with crimes against humanity.

The Court

The country’s highest tribunal is operating with four members: Lorenzetti, Deputy Chief Justice Elena Highton de Nolasco and Justices Juan Carlos Maqueda and Carlos Fayt. The Pink House has doubled down its efforts to remove 97-year-old Fayt from the Court but sources told the Herald that the justice appointed in 1983 was not considering tendering his resignation.

The Court lacks a criminal law expert since Zaffaroni’s retirement and the death of Carmen Argibay, in May last year.

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Decision on CFK accusation expected next week

Chiara Feb 20, 2015

Rafecas returns from holiday as Comodoro Py is engulfed by the march to honour Nisman.
Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas will wait until next week to make a decision on the writ filed on Friday by federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, formally accusing President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of seeking to shield the alleged Iranian masterminds of the terrorist attack against the AMIA Jewish community centre.
Rafecas yesterday returned from holiday to the courthouse located on Comodoro Py Avenue, a decision he made on Friday after Pollicita decided to move forward with the complaint filed by AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman four days before he was found dead of a gunshot to the head.
On the third floor of the courthouse, Rafecas started his day early and his door remained shut the whole day, making it clear that he would not risk making statements that could later be misconstrued in such a sensitive issue.
Sources close to the magistrate appointed during the Kirchnerite era yesterday told the Herald that he will take, at least, until Friday to examine the request issued by Pollicita. Pollicita did not make public what actions he requested from the judge but sources close to him leaked to some opposition media that he wanted the judge to cross-reference phone conversations between government officials to determine if there was a network of parallel diplomatic negotiations that sought to seal a deal with Tehran.
Nisman had claimed Fernández de Kirchner’s administration had agreed to lift the “Red Notices” against five Iranian suspects in order to promote trade relations with Iran.
According to judicial sources, Rafecas has two options. The first one would be to analyze the complaint as a whole, which would include making a broad decision on whether to move forward with the investigation or reject it outright. Another option — which is seen as the most likely — would involve giving a green light to some of the requests filed by prosecutor Pollicita, who was in his office yesterday on the fifth floor of the courthouse.
In the Comodoro Py courthouse, judges and prosecutors explain that Rafecas finds himself in the middle of a crossfire. On the one hand, they say he is being pressured by opposition media, which want him to promote the investigation into Fernández de Kirchner and her allies.
On the other hand, they point out Rafecas is on thin ice due to the complaints that Vice-President Amado Boudou’s lawyers filed against him regarding the probe into the Ciccone mint case.
Sources from the Magistrates Council — the body in charge of the selection and removal of judges — told the Herald that Rafecas has five complaints in that body and faces an impeachment request for his performance in the Ciccone case. The government, however, is hesitant to move forward with that complaint because it had been filed by lawyers who are now working for Darío Richarte’s law firm, linked to sectors of the secret services that are now on bad terms with the Pink House.
Rafecas was appointed in 2004 and became one of the most respected judges in the courthouse, where he had to handle sensitive cases such as the investigations into crimes committed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship in the City and Greater Buenos Aires. He has published two books on the Holocaust and is said to have close ties with Jewish community organizations.
Fifth floor
While Rafecas was in the spotlight yesterday, action was taking place two floors above his office, where federal prosecutors have their offices. That is the location of the offices of prosecutors Carlos Stornelli, Carlos Rívolo and Guillermo Marijuán, three of the key organizers of the march.
The three prosecutors were not the only organizers of the demonstration. In fact, some speculate that Germán Moldes, the prosecutor before the Federal Criminal Appeals Court, and Raúl Pleé, one of the prosecutors before the Federal Criminal Cassation Court, the country’s highest criminal tribunal, were masterminds of the silent march. Moldes is one of the prosecutors who is on the worst terms with Attorney General Alejandra Gils Carbó and has come under criticism — just like Pleé did — for shelving the AMIA case by the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), which represents the Memoria Activa group in court.
The majority of the prosecutors tried to stick to their daily routine. Federal prosecutor Jorge Di Lello was one of those who opposed the march, saying that the state’s attorneys should work in Comodoro Py. Di Lello is not seen as a Kirchnerite supporter as last year he charged Boudou for his role in the Ciccone mint case.
What prosecutors did seem to agree on yesterday is that the so-called 18F “silent march” would mark a watershed, after which an air of political change will blow in the country’s most influential courthouse.
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Gov’t meets with UIA to discuss China deals

Chiara Feb 13, 2015

Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich, Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido and Industry Minister Débora Giorgi met with Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) authorities Héctor Méndez, Juan Carlos Lascurain, José Urtubey, among others at the government house to discuss the agreements signed with China last week during President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s official trip to Beijing.

The meeting, originally scheduled for tomorrow, was instructed by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner following a request by the UIA. «I am very satisfied with the meeting,» Méndez said in a press conference at the government house. He thanked Ms. Kirchner for the «celerity» in arranging the encounter with the ministers.

«We have raised our concerns, which have been discussed and made clear,» Méndez said. He announced a new meeting for February 24 to cover the technical aspects of the agreements signed with China.
The economy minister in his turn said that UIA’s specific concerns will be «addressed by the technical officials from each office.»

The ministers responded to UIA’s concerns over the direct allocation of infrastructure works that have Chinese funding and the labour conditions of Chinese workers by ratifying Ms. Kirchner remarks about the deal.

Kicillof said that the agreements seek to «favour the national production and labour» and he pointed out that they are not a «last-minute call» but «the fruits of a tree planted in 2004.» He urged business leaders to support the government’s efforts «with more investment, more jobs, to continue to walk a path of development.»

“Many of the companies within UIA that criticise (the deals) are the main beneficiaries of the government’s financing strategy,” Capitanich said earlier today. “The entire financing scheme for infrastructure works involves local companies for the delivery of goods and services,” he explained. “(With the deals) we seek a mechanism to achieve equilibrium in the balance of trade.”

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

CFK demands ‘vote of confidence’ from business leaders

Felipe Feb 12, 2015

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has defended her government’s record in promoting local business and industry, while launching a fierce criticism of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) and the chamber’s negative stance on agreements with China.

Referring to the various pacts signed with the Asian nation, Cristina reflected: «We will see what the Chinese do and we will also see what we do.

«Do not take Argentines for fools. Since when have businesses cared if cheap labour was coming over from China?», the president fired, responding to the UIA’s criticisms. «It is hard to understand why they would spit on the barbecue. Or maybe there are interests in play which are not commercial, but political,» she said.

«It is interesting to see how some are worried about cheap labour coming, when they have been pushing for devaluation in order to destroy salaries.»

«This government has prided itself on defending Argentine jobs and Argentine business leaders, unlike any other government that came before it,» the head of state fired during a public broadcast transmitted today live from Government House.

Cristina also used the broadcast to announce a 37.25 percent increase in the yearly student stipend, which reaches 3.23 million children in 2.02 million families nationwide.

As well as revealing new subsidies for school renovation works, the head of state raised the benefit from 510 to 700 pesos annually for those eligible.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

CFK: China visit ‘one of the most important’ of presidency

Chiara Feb 6, 2015

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner brought to an end her state visit to China, which she described as one of the most important in her two terms as head of state, after signing several key financing and cooperation agreements with the Asian nation.

«We have finished what is without a doubt one of the most important state visits we have carried out,» Cristina said on her Twitter account.

«In a few days chilled beef and beef on the bone will be exported to China, the product of a partnership between Chinese businesses and start-ups from Entre Ríos.»

On a lighter tone, the head of state also described an improvement in her health since arriving in Beijing for the official visit.

«Do you remember I left in a wheelchair? Well, thank God I have recovered in China and I am coming back walking», affirmed CFK, who had problems with mobility following a fall over the holiday period which left her with a fractured ankle.

The president left China today to return to Buenos Aires. The Tango 01 aircraft is expected to land in the Argentine capital on Saturday, after three scheduled stops.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

Gov’t releases Stiusso from confidentiality obligations

Chiara Feb 6, 2015

Secretary of Intelligence Oscar Parrilli announced that ex Intelligence Secretariat Operations chief Antonio “Jaime” Stiusso will no longer be obliged to keep confidentiality over his actions from 1972 to January 2015, as prosecutor Viviana Fein’s awaits to hear testimony from the former spymaster in the investigation of Alberto Nisman’s death.

“President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wants great transparency for the investigation,” Parrilli said to reporters after meeting with the Congress’ Bicameral Intelligence Oversight Committee. “We will release Stiusso from his obligations of confidentiality from 1972 to January 5, 2015, when he was removed from office” he announced.

“The president wants the truth to come out and she wants Stiusso to tell everything,” the official added.

Parrilli defended the Executive’s decision to reform the Intelligence Secretariat, “We believe that we are doing things in the right time. We have done many things in the past 12 years and there is still a lot to do,” he said.

He addressed critics who question their decision to move forward with such a critical reform only 9 months away from the presidential elections. “To the opposition lawmakers and senators I say this: We do not have nine months in government, we have 4 more years because we are certain that we will continue to govern.”

Even though Stiusso will no longer be obliged to keep confidentiality, Prosecutor Fein will wait for the Intelligence Secretariat to officially recognize the measure in order to call the former spy for inquiry in the Nisman case.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

CFK meets with China’s Xi Jinping

Chiara Feb 5, 2015

After meeting with top Chinese businessmen, president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met today with her counterpart Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People to discuss new strategic agreements and to ratify the 20 bilateral deals signed by the two countries.

Ms. Kirchner walked into the meeting, without the wheelchair she had been using since she fractured her right ankle last December. After a floral welcome from Chinese students, the two head of states adressed the press, before heading to the Hebei room for the bilateral encounter.

Xi Jinping expressed his “satisfaction” for Ms. Kirchner’s recovery and the Argentine president thanked her host his “concern and interest” in her health. She also pointed out that right after her injury she had stated that the fracture would not “stand in the way” of her visit to China.

The Argentine president expressed her confidence that the meeting would reaffirm the “integral strategic alliance” between the two countries. The heads of state and their ministers are expected to sign 15 new deals, which add up to the 20 already signed last July, during Xi Jinping’s visit to Argentina.

Speaking in Buenos Aires, at the government house, Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich praised the president’s visit which he pointed out, will lead to financing for the creation of Argentina’s fourth nuclear plant, which would entail “a valuable increase in energy supply.”

He also praised the establishment of a branch of the local Banco Nación in Beijing

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

Appeals Court orders Judge Rafecas to take Nisman’s complaint

Chiara Feb 5, 2015

CFK hails China business forum, responds to critics with ironic tweets

Chiara Feb 5, 2015

CFK arrives in Beijing for a three-day visit

Chiara Feb 3, 2015

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has arrived in Beijing today to begin a three-day commercial visit in which she is expected to meet with her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
The Argentine delegation includes Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman; the Secretary of Public Communications Alfredo Scoccimarro; Planning Minister Julio De Vido; and Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, among other officials.
During the next days, the president is scheduled to meet with local political and business leaders.
A key meeting with the Chinese president is scheduled for next Wednesday at the headquarters of the Chinese government and after Fernández de Kirchner speaks at a bilateral business forum.
Talks about the construction of the Néstor Kirchner and Jorge Cepernic dams in Santa Cruz will resume, as well as others regarding the evolution of the long-expected renovation of the Belgrano Cargas railway freight line, both financed by Chinese capitals.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

CFK proposes Carlés to fill SC vacancy

Felipe Ene 29, 2015

Justice Minister Julio Alak has announced Dr Roberto Carlés has been proposed by the Government to fill the vacant spot on the Supreme Court left by Dr Raúl Zaffaroni in December 2014.

Zaffaroni left his position on December 31, reducing the number of members of the Argentine Supreme Court to four.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner decided to propose Carlés today and his candidacy will now be evaluated in the Senate.

Dr Roberto Carlés graduated with honors from the University of Buenos Aires, where he specialized in criminal law. He is secretary of the Latin American Criminal Law Association and President of the Young Criminal Lawyers Association.

Carlés coordinated the project to reform the Penal Code. He is 33 years old and, if elected, would be the youngest Supreme Court member in history

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

CFK meets with families of AMIA victims, backs case to continue

Chiara Ene 28, 2015

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has met with members of the 18J Family, Survivors and Friends of the Victims of the AMIA Attack Association, led by Sergio Burstein, in an audience held at her official residence in Olivos.

«We talked about the case itself, about the fear and anxiety over what will happen with the main case, and of course about the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman. We asked her to redouble her efforts and to not halt the investigation, so we can find the truth, Burstein explained after the audience.

«We need to know what happened with Nisman,» the representative repeated, while adding that during the meeting in Olivos «the SIDE was not discussed,» referring to the planned dissolution of the intelligence agency.

Burstein earlier described CFK’s decision to send a bill to Congress disbanding the Intelligence Secretariat (SI) as «an act of incredible bravery,» prior to the audience that was also attended by Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich, Justice minister Julio Alak and Presidential secretary Aníbal Fernández.

«Closing the SI, which was really the ‘no intelligence’ because they could not give us any of the answers that we needed, is an incredibly brave act,» the representative of the victims told Radio América.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

Charlie Hebdo attack: Hollande thanks CFK’s support

Chiara Ene 28, 2015

French President Francois Hollande has thanked President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for her support after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack.

“I thank you for the message of sympathy, solidarity and fraternity that you sent me when France was touched in the heart by an aggression of inenarrable horror,” Hollande wrote in a letter sent to Ms Kirchner.

“The authority of the State and democracy were hurt by that hateful act. Democracy is freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom to create; it is also pluralism and diversity,” the letter goes on.

Hollande said France will not surrender to “obscurantism” and added he will personally continue to promote, both nationally and worldwide, the values of liberty, tolerance, justice and peace.

“Thanking you again for your support, I beg you accept, Ms President, my highest consideration,” the letter ends.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

CFK announces plan to dissolve SI intelligence service

Chiara Ene 27, 2015

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has announced that a bill will be sent to Congress ordering the dissolution of the Intelligence Secretariat (SI), calling both parliamentary chambers to special sessions on February 1 to discuss the proposal.

In its place, CFK asserted, a new Federal Intelligence Agency would be created. In the new structure, both the director and deputy director would have to be designated and passed by the Senate, she explained in a television broadcast transmitted across the nation this evening.

«We must start to work on a project to reform the Argentine intelligence system, in order to clear up a system that has not served national interests,» Cristina said.

The head of state asserted that from the moment the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran over the AMIA bombings in 1994 was signed, «you could see that the agreement was being bombarded from the SIDE».

«From there even the most unlikely accusations against this President were intensified. They started to occur at a dizzying pace,» she added, stating that the manoeuvre included «groups of prosecutors, groups of judges, anonymous accusers and journalists who spread them.»

«This led me to the decision to remove agents that had been there since before the coming of democracy.»

The President also announced that the reform bill would also transfer responsibility for wiretaps and other communications monitoring away from the intelligence agency, to the Attorney-General’s Office.

«From now on, any judge or prosecutor who wishes to request a wiretap must go to the Attorney General,» she underlined.

The broadcast marked the first time that the head of state makes a public appearance since the death of lead AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman last Sunday. CFK has limited official activity since suffering a fractured ankle over the holiday season, although she did comment on the prosecutor’s passing via two letters released on social media websites.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

¿Fátima Florez vuelve a imitar a Cristina Kirchner? «Sentí que esta semana que pasó no era el momento de hacer humor político»

Dana Ene 26, 2015

Entrevistada por Intrusos, contó por qué decidió bajar ese personaje tras la muerte del fiscal de la Causa AMIA, Alberto Nisman, y que junto a la producción definirá los pasos a seguir

«Desde el martes hasta el domingo, toda la semana, decidimos conjuntamente con la producción por una iniciativa mía, no hacer el sketch de la Presidente», dijo Fátima Florez a la cámara de Intrusos. Tras la muerte del fiscal que investigaba el atentado a la AMIA, Alberto Nisman, la humorista sacó la imitación de Cristina Kirchner del espectáculo que lleva adelante en el teatro Atlas de Mar del Plata, Fátima para Todos: «Sentí que esta semana no era el momento de hacer humor político».

«Atravesamos una situación de país delicada. Como argentina siento un respeto al país. Lo siento primero como persona y después como artista. No era lo adecuado. Sentía que el país estaba atravesando una situación muy delicada, donde no sé sabe qué paso. Estamos todos muy golpeados (por la muerte de Nisman). Lo mejor es calmar las aguas y esperar», agregó Florez.

«Ahora nos vamos a reunir para ver cómo continúa la semana. Si reincorporamos el personaje o no», explicó y aseguró que la obra no se resintió con la ausencia de ese personaje: «El espectáculo tiene 25 imitaciones. No está todo el espectáculo alrededor de Cristina, si no me quedaría en bolas».

Además Fátima detalló que en esta temporada reforzó la imitación de la Presidente «desde el humor»: «No quiere que nadie se siente ofendido. Mi espectáculo es para unir a la familia, que todos vengan a divertirse. Puedo hacer una presidente divertida, sin ofender a nadie».

Fuente: www.infobae.com

CFK doubts suicide: They used Nisman while he was alive, then they needed him dead

Felipe Ene 23, 2015

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner took to social media once again to express her thoughts on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman this morning, making reference to “the suicide which -I am sure- was not a suicide.” She also praised yesterday’s cover of the Herald for its “accuracy” on the content of Nisman’s complaint against the government.

In another long letter — the second she has written since Nisman’s death —, the president said that the “real operation against the government was the prosecutor’s death” and she added: “They used him while he was alive and then they needed him dead. It is that sad and terrible.”

The head of state posted a photo of the front page of yesterday’s Buenos Aires Herald, which featured the first page of Nisman’s complaint against the government for allegedly covering up the attack against the AMIA Jewish centre, which was released on Tuesday by Federal Judge Ariel Lijo. She praised the “surgical or maybe linguistic- accuracy” of the Herald’s headline: “Nothing new. Nisman’s report fails to fan flames of conspiracy.”

Fernández de Kirchner said that the writ has turned “certain questions” into “certainties.”

“The Buenos Aires Herald was right. ‘Nothing new.’ But also for other reasons: Nisman’s report ‘was planted’ with false information,” she added.

“Nisman’s accusation not only collapses, but it becomes a real political and legal scandal,” the president wrote. “Prosecutor Nisman did not know that the intelligence agents that he listed as such, were in fact not. Least of all that one of them had been accused by (ex intelligence chief “Jaime”) Stiusso himself.”

Antonio “Jaime” Stiusso, a former operations chief for the Intelligence Secretariat (SI), was fired in a December shake-up of the agency. One of his responsibilities was to help Nisman with the investigation into the 1994 bombing.

The Intelligence Secretariat (SI) has recently denied that the two supposed intelligence agents listed in late Alberto Nisman’s complaint — Héctor Yrimia and Ramón Allan Héctor Bogado — were members of that agency.

“If Stiusso was the one feeding Nisman with all the information, it is more than evident that it was Stiusso himself who told him (or wrote to him?) that Bogado and Yrimia were intelligence agents,” the president added.”

She pointed to the statements made by the judge presiding over the AMIA investigation, Rodolfo Canicoba Corral. “(He) has criticised the involvement of Stiusso, saying that instead of helping with the investigation, he ended up leading it. I personally believe that he did more than that. The facts speak for themselves.”

“The scandal sparked by the complaint … full of ‘planted’ information, was covered by the death of the prosecutor. That is, an apparent suicide. A resource that has already been used in many sadly renowned cases,” she stated.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

AMIA: denuncia contra CFK cayó en el juzgado de Lijo

Felipe Ene 15, 2015

La acusación del fiscal Nisman será evaluada por el magistrado, que sigue acumulando causas contra el gobierno.

El pedido de indagatoria del Fiscal Alberto Nisman a la presidente Cristina Fernández de Kirchner y al canciller Héctor Timerman tendrá que ser resuelto por el juez Ariel Lijo.

El magistrado fue quien procesó al vicepresidente, Amado Boudou, por la causa Ciccone. Además, interviene en las investigaciones del atentado de la AMIA y por lo que ya mandó a juicio oral al expresidente Carlos Menem, al exjuez Juan José Galeano, al excomisario Jorge «Fino» Palacios y al ex jefe de la SIDE, Hugo Anzorreguy.

Si bien Nisman presentó ahora el dictamen, los pasos a seguir se resolverán una vez que el el titular del juzgado federal 4 retome sus actividades el 2 de febrero. A partir de allí, tomará la decisión si las acusaciones del fiscal se tratan de una nueva causa o si están relacionadas con las que él investiga.

También puede quedarse con la causa y pedir medidas de prueba para avanzar en la investigación, en caso que considere que la acusación de Nisman requiere más análisis, para decidir si hace lugar a los pedidos de indagatoria.

Fuente: Perfil

AMIA prosecutor accuses CFK, Timerman of ‘covering up’ Iran’s involvement in bombing

Felipe Ene 15, 2015

The prosecutor in charge of the AMIA bombing investigation Alberto Nisman has filed a 300-page complaint accusing President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman among other kirchnerite political figures of “covering up” Iranian citizens allegedly involved in the deadly 1994 attack.

In the document that was released today, Nisman demands a preventive embargo of 200 million pesos on Ms. Kirchner and requests to question the President, Mr. timerman, lawmaker of head of the pro-government organization «La Cámpora» Andrés Larroque, members of Argentina’s Intelligence Office, ex attorney and judge Héctor Yrimia, leader of the Iranian community here Jorge “Yussuf” Khali and political leaders Luis D’Elía and Fernando Esteche.

According to the attorney, the Kirchnerite administration planned to “erase” Iran out from the AMIA case, deciding to “not incriminate” ex officials of the Islamic Republic in the bombing that left 85 people and hundreds injured almost 21 years ago with President Cristina Kirchner deciding a “geopolitical” rapprochement with Tehran, “establishing trade relations to mitigate the Argentine severe energy crisis, through an exchange of ‘oil for grains’.”

The agreement, Nisman ads, was considered “unfeasible” until the accusation against Iranian officials remained.

“So, to clear the obstacle, and here is the criminal (aspect), the President (Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) ordered to divert the investigation, abandoning years of a legitimate demand of justice and sought to free the Iranian imputed (in the case) from all suspicions, contradicting their proved ties with the attack. She decided to fabricate ‘the innocence of Iran’.”

Mr. Nisman continues to denounce in his presentation that Buenos Aires carried out a what he called a “parallel communication channel” with Iran in order to “transmit and instrument the orders ruled by the President (Cristina Kirchner) and, in that way, reach the illicit objectives.”

“This clandestine channel, that operated as a parallel diplomacy, was shaped up by officials, ex officials and other subjects, that had no ties with the diplomatic function, but who were closely tied with the center of power from where the most transcendental decisions of Argentine politics emanated from.”

Argentina signed a deal with Iran in January 2013 to to jointly probe the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The so called Memorandum of Understanding sets the creation of a Truth Commission made up of independent legal experts neither of them from Argentina and Iran to analyse the up-to-date evidence.

Source; Buenos Aires Herald

Government ratifies condemnation of Paris killing

Chiara Ene 9, 2015

The government has reiterated Argentina’s condemnation of the terrorist attack against the offices of the French Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris yesterday and confirmed its “commitment with peace and the fight against terrorism in all its forms.”

Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich expressed his condolences to the victims of the shooting in his daily press briefing at the government house today, and highlighted the government’s determination to fight terrorism while respecting human rights.

Yesterday, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner condemned the “barbaric attack” in an official statement, in which the government reiterated “its unalterable commitment with peace and the fight against terrorism in all its forms, as well as its political will and determination to continue strengthening international cooperation mechanisms, observing the law and respecting human rights, as the only way democratic societies can face this scourge.”

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

CARRERA AL 2015: Como se estaría reestructurando la oposición frente al oficialismo.

ALEJ Ene 8, 2015

Sergio Massa estaría llevando como candidato a Gobernador a Francisco de Narváez, ya que este habría fracasado con sus tiernas ilusiones de formar parte del Sciolismo.  

Además recordemos que Darío Giustozzi lo está alabando hace un tiempo.

El caso polémico de Martín Insaurralde, quedaría resuelto formando las filas como jefe de la zona sur.

Por otro lado el dirigente radical y cabeza del partido de San Isidro, también estaría armándose en la zona norte y en la zona sur aspirando a la provincia de Bs as. Tendría como escollo las operaciones que llevan adelante en lo local, los suegros el diputado Nacional y líder del Frente Renovador, aunque las malas lenguas nos cuentan que ya habría un acuerdo de convivencia y que se correrían de la zona.

El Oficialismo estaría pensando en llevar adelante  un importante cambio en la Ley Electoral, impulsada por Carlos Zanini, con directivas expresas a Di Tullio. Sería una decisión tomada por CFK frente a un asesoramiento recibido por uno de sus ediles con el fin de impedir una presunta derrota.

De esta manera la oposición no armaría una sola lista para el Parlasur y un candidato a Gobernador no podría adherir a dos presidenciales.

Además incidiría sobre la jugada de Mauricio Macri y de Sergio Massa, sobre todo en las provincias en las que ya se está hablando de elecciones unificadas.

Por su parte Sergio Massa estaría avanzando a gran escala con los radicales y cerrando en varias provincias del interior de nuestro país. Tendría cerrados al menos cuatro acuerdos distritales con la UCR: Jujuy (Gerardo Morales), Formosa (Luis Naidenoff o Ricardo Buryaile), Tucumán (José Cano) y Tierra del Fuego (Federico Sciurano).

En Tierra del fuego los comicios van desdoblados y existirían dudas con el acuerdo en Santa Cruz, con Eduardo Costa.

Mauricio Macri estaría complicado con su estrategia ya que solo contaría con una opción, María Eugenia Vidal.

 La estrategia presidencial cuenta con la opción de que CFK se presente  como candidata al Mercosur. Por este tema se estarían estrechando lazos de unión los candidatos opositores. De hecho, ya hay varios opositores, como Lilita Carrió y Margarita Stolbizer, con intenciones de derrotar a CFK.

Adolfo Rodríguez Saá y José Manuel de la Sota serían un atractivo muy grande y pasarían a ser materia de conquista para el oficialismo.

El primo de MM, Jorge Macri, estaría armando su propio equipo en la provincia de manera silenciosa.

El PRO apoyaría a la UCR en muchos lugares, particularmente en la provincia de Mendoza, y esto lo hizo público a través de “LA NACION”, Sebastián García de Luca operador del Jefe de la Ciudad de Bs As, encargado del armado político.

En la Provincia de Entre Ríos el Dirigente Ruralista de la Federación Agraria estaría sonando fuerte.

 En Cordoba pululan los acuerdos y arreglos al igual que en otras provincias con el PRO, solo que éste no tiene la exclusividad con la novia, ya que también existen coqueteos con los sectores masistas.

Los Legisladores Mauricio D’Alessandro y Guillermo Britos que provienen del espacio de Francisco, ya están jugando en el Frente Renovador. Recordemos que Britos fue Comisario de la policía bonaerense.

Mientras que el diputado Provincial Héctor Gay como Santiago Nardelli, ya estarían acordando con Mauricio Macri. Así que aquí abren el juego, al viejo estilo gremial, en que todos los porotos no van a la misma canasta, sino que se reparten.

Yans había abandonado la unión Celeste y Blanca y conformó el Monobloque de Unión PRO.

Continuaremos….

El fiscal de la causa contra CFK pasó año nuevo con Massa

Chiara Ene 6, 2015

Carlos Stornelli es una pieza clave en la causa Hotesur SA. Su relación con Gils Carbó.

El fiscal federal Carlos Stornelli es una pieza clave en la causa Hotesur SA contra la Presidenta. Es quien impulsó la investigación del juez Bonadio, pero también quien puede ayudar a medir el accionar del magistrado. Mientras descansa en Pinamar con su familia, el ex ministro de Seguridad bonaerense brindó con el candidato presidencial Sergio Massa –son amigos desde hace 15 años– y se llamó a silencio sobre el expediente más caliente del último mes judicial.

Su equipo de trabajo ve con un dejo de escepticismo el avance galopante de Bonadio, a pesar de que Stornelli es uno de los fiscales más activos contra el Gobierno. “Es una causa que no tiene imputados”, recuerdan cuando los periodistas insisten en qué pasará con Máximo Kirchner en el expediente, ante los rumores de pasillo de que el juez podría citarlo a indagatoria por las irregularidades en Hotesur. “No hay que apurarse, la causa recién empieza, falta mucho”, se desentienden en el entorno del fiscal federal.

Stornelli gestó una buena relación con su jefa, Alejandra Gils Carbó, pero también sintoniza con los más duros de sus colegas. “Sin comentarios”, dice cuando se le pregunta sobre la causa contra la familia presidencial.

Mientras Bonadio apura los motores y se encierra durante todo enero a trabajar en la causa, Stornelli regresará a sus funciones recién en febrero, sin apuro.

Fuente: Perfil

CFK denies exchange restrictions hurt foreign travel plans

Chiara Ene 6, 2015

“You can see that those working for the monopoly are banned from reading other newspapers or maybe they do not know English.” President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was in a combative mood yesterday on twitter, as the head of state used the social network to send off a flurry of messages defending her government’s economic administration and criticizing constant attacks from opposition media, including the Clarín Group.

One of the most controversial claims was CFK’s assertion, citing the front page of the Herald, that the so-called ‘exchange clamp’ was not damaging foreign tourism.

“How about that? No clamp, no devaluation. Spending power and the government’s public policies,” Cristina wrote, in reference to figures that showed Argentines continue to travel to the United States in large numbers despite difficulties in obtaining foreign currency.

Local citizens in 2013 represented the 14th largest nationality in terms of annual visits to the US, while statistics were even more impressive when taking into account tourism in Miami, Florida. The traditional holiday hotspot for Latin American jet-setters saw 485,276 spend at least one night there, ranking the nation third in the world for visits to the city.

Despite the president’s assertions, however, explaining the increased numbers of overseas travelers may not be such a simple task. Restrictions on accessing foreign currency have not drastically reduced Argentines’ ability to travel, partly thanks to the liberalization of the system under close control from the AFIP tax agency and via the use of credit cards, and partly because of attractive travel deals such as offers from Aerolíneas Argentinas to travel to Miami while paying off the fare in 12 monthly installments.

But many analysts believe that the official peso currently suffers from an exchange rate lag which exaggerates its real market value. Further devaluations such as that suffered at the start of 2014 could really start to hit the spending power of Argentines outside of the country.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

CFK cancels trip to Vatican, CGT meeting due to ankle fracture

Felipe Dic 30, 2014

Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich announced that due to the ankle fracture that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner suffered in the southern city of Río Gallegos where she was spending her Christmas break last week, she was forced to reschedule all official events until January 12.

The president did, however, meet with several members of her cabinet in the presidential residence in Olivos. Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich, Economy minister Axel Kicillof, Interior and Transport minister Florencio Randazzo and presidential secretary Aníbal Fernández were received by Cristina over the course of the afternoon for briefings.

Following an ankle fracture Ms. Kirchner suffered in the southern city of Río Gallegos where she was spending her Christmas break, the president has called off a trip to the Vatican, where she had been invited by Pope Francis along with her Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet to mark the anniversary of the Beagle Channel peace treaty, Capitanich confirmed this morning in his daily press briefing at the government house.

The chief of ministers also announced that a meeting between the president and the leaders of the pro-government CGT labour confederation splinter scheduled for this afternoon has also been cancelled.

Capitanich explained that the official agenda will be rescheduled starting on January 12.

The head of state is keeping rest at Olivos presidential resting, following the advice of the Presidential Medical Unit. Capitanich said that in the following 48 hours the medical team will decide whether she is well enough to travel back to Río Gallegos.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

Tuesday, December 23, 2014 Pope invites CFK, Bachelet to Beagle treaty anniversary ceremony

Chiara Dic 24, 2014

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner confirmed that Pope Francis has invited her and her Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet to commemorate the 30 years of the signing of the peace treaty that put an end to the conflict over the Beagle Channel.
The two head of states had originally planned to meet in San Juan province last November to commemorate the historic agreement that prevented a large scale war between the two countries, but the encounter was called off after Ms. Kirchner was was diagnosed with sigmoiditis -an inflammation of the sigmoid colon- and was hospitalised.
Francis’ invitation was delivered in a letter to Argentina’s newly-appointed ambassador to the Vatican Eduardo Valdés last week.
The Peace and Friendship treaty was signed on November 29 1984 between Santiago and Buenos Aires after a four-year-long Papal mediation by Pope John Paul II. It put an end to a longstanding border dispute over the possession of Picton, Lennox and Nueva island and adjacent maritime jurisdiction, over which the two countries where on the brink of war in 1978.
Ms. Kirchner will be travelling to the Vatican on January, for a fifth meeting with the Argentine Pope.

Source: Buenos Aires Herald

Impunidad: avance para extender fueros a CFK

Chiara Dic 17, 2014

Diputados dieron media sanción a la elección de legisladores para el Parlosur, las que serán en simultáneo con los comicios nacionales. Cristina encabezaría la lista oficial en busca de blindarse para evitar ir a la cárcel por delitos de corrupción durante
su gestión

Dentro del plan del gobierno nacional que busca lograr impunidad de sus funcionarios una vez que dejen el poder, y principalmente para proteger a la presidenta Cristina Kirchner, la Cámara de Diputados aprobó ayer el proyecto del Poder Ejecutivo que establece la elección de integrantes del Parlasur en simultáneo con los comicios nacionales del próximo año, norma que el Senado comenzará a discutir hoy mismo.

El oficialismo esperó a la última sesión del año y dentro de una batería de proyectos, el de la elección de legisladores del Parlasur, con el que se tendrá fueros, obtuvo 140 votos afirmativos, 72 negativos y 18 abstenciones

El proyecto pasó al Senado, que tiene previsto comenzar a discutirlo hoy a las 11 en la comisión de Asuntos Constitucionales, por lo que el debate se realizará en simultáneo a la cumbre de presidentes del Mercosur en la ciudad de Paraná.

Según señalaron fuentes del bloque oficialista de la Cámara, seguramente hoy sacará dictamen y se intentará llevar el texto al recinto. Para ello, el kirchnerismo necesitará el voto de los dos tercios de los legisladores, para poder habilitar el tratamiento sobre tablas del proyecto.

De no conseguir el respaldo de la UCR y el Peronismo Federal, el FpV intentaría sesionar el próximo 30 de diciembre, para aprobar la iniciativa antes del próximo año electoral.

La idea del oficialismo es proponer a Cristina como representante de Argentina en el Parlasur y así blindarla de todas las causas judiciales que le lloverán por presuntos hechos de corrupción.

Un apuro que muestra la hilacha
El texto aprobado fija las elecciones de los 43 representantes de Argentina en el Parlasur en simultáneo con los comicios nacionales de agosto y octubre de 2015.

«El período de transición durante el cual no es obligatorio que se elijan los parlamentarios por voto directo se ha extendido hasta el 2020. El apuro al trámite impuesto por el oficialismo no tiene explicación alguna», señaló el legislador Pablo Tonelli.

El radical Mario Negri opinó que la mejor manera hubiese sido un acuerdo con todos los países del Mercosur sobre una fecha común para elegir a los integrantes del Parlasur.
diariohoy.net

“Quiero que CFK muestre su diploma de abogada”

Chiara Dic 16, 2014

LANATA TAMBIÉN LE PIDE EL TÍTULO A LA PRESIDENTA

En medio de la discusión por el título de abogada de Cristina Kirchner, que recrudeció luego de que Daniel Sabsay pidiera a la presidenta que lo mostrara públicamente, Jorge Lanata salió hoy a través de su programa de radio a aportar su granito de arena.

“Lo que yo le quiero decir a la presidente es que, si va a hablar de mi carnet de periodista que primero muestre su diploma de abogada”.

Con evidente enojo, el periodista agregó: “Me parece que yo como boludo que paga más del 35% de impuestos, de todo lo que gana, tengo derecho a ver el título de la presidente”.

Más adelante, explicó que, “después si quiere, le explico (a Cristina) porqué no tengo carnet de periodista”.

Y finalizó: “Si les preocupa, soy gran contribuyente, es decir gran pelotudo”.

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Cayó el helicóptero del ex jardinero de Cristina y murió el piloto

Chiara Dic 15, 2014

SANTA CRUZ
Partió de El Calafate hacia El Chaltén. Pablo Argiz iba a rescatar a un andinista herido.

El domingo pasado, el helicóptero del ex jardinero de Cristina se cayó en el Cerro Fitz Roy y murió el piloto.

Pablo Argiz, socio del jardinero de CFK, había despegado desde El Calafate rumbo a El Chaltén y cayó en el cerro Fitz Roy. Había ido a rescatar a un andinista que había caído en una grieta de alta montaña.

El helicóptero de matrícula LV-ZHW era propiedad de Ricardo Fabián Barreiro, el ex jardinero de los Kirchner, que se enriqueció a través de cargos en diferentes roles, como un nombramiento de asesor en la provincia de Entre Ríos y diferentes emprendimientos como empresario.

clarin.com

El encuentro entre CFK y Casey: «Molesta porque es rubio»

Felipe Dic 15, 2014

La Presidenta tuvo un encuentro privado con el niño de 11 años que saltó a la fama tras una encendida defensa al kirchnerismo.

El encuentro entre la presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner y Casey Wander, el niño de 11 años que se declaró militante K, se concretó finalmente esta semana, a puertas cerradas en Casa de Gobierno. Allí, el joven “probó” el sillón de Rivadavia para el 2050 cuando, dijo, se postulará a la primera magistratura mediante el partido Peronismo Para la Victoria.

«Lo conocí, no saben los que es… Lo recibí aquí en la Casa de Gobierno sin fotos y sin cámaras para que esos buitres mediáticos no se ensañaran con un chico que siente y que piensa su patria”, explicó la mandataria en su discurso del sábado, durante los festejos por el 32 aniversario del retorno de la democracia.

Sobre el revuelo que provocó la entrevista en la que Wander defiende al kirchnerismo, Cristina analizó: “¿Saben qué les molestó? Que fuera rubio, que tuviera ojos celestes, y que además se llamara Casey Wonder. Era demasiado, no daba con el cliché, no daba con el modelo del que viene por el choripán y la Coca».

Pese a que el encuentro no formó parte de la agenda pública de la Presidenta, y que por pedido expreso de ella, no hubo registros oficiales, la madre de Casey, Nydia Lirola, se ocupó de compartir fotos en las redes sociales.

Fuente: Perfil