Judges who created false cases in Argentina take on the case of Venezuelan dissidents
Stella Calloni
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, p. 27
Buenos Aires. During a hearing convened by the first chamber of the Court of Appeals in the federal courts located in the residential neighborhood of Retiro, the judges of the Federal Chamber, Pablo Bertuzzi, Leopoldo Bruglia and Mariano Llorens, took testimony from a group of Venezuelans – whose names are being withheld – who reported having been victims of kidnappings and torture in Venezuela under the government of President Nicolás Maduro, and demanded that the president be summoned.
These judges are the same ones who created false cases against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and several of her officials who were illegally detained during the government of right-wing former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).
Along with these judges, who must decide whether to order the summons and international arrest of Maduro, was also the prosecutor in charge of this case, Carlos Stronelli, who in 2019 was convicted by a federal court for creating false cases, in a scheme of legal warfare or lawfare in which media and intelligence agencies dependent on officials of the then-ruling coalition were involved.
Stornelli was protected by the Judicial Party despite all the evidence presented by Fernández de Kirchner’s lawyers.
Most of the Venezuelans who arrived in the country with their families during Macri’s government, according to the United States, were businessmen who were immediately given documents, so they were able to buy businesses, restaurants and other companies founded by the Argentine president, who in 2019 recognized the self-appointed Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela and his ambassador without an embassy, since the diplomatic headquarters remained open and threatened by intelligence agents and police under the command of the then Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, who now holds the same position.
The retired Comodoro Py courts bring together the majority of judges and prosecutors who make up the so-called Judicial Party, created by Macri at the request of the US embassy and who dedicated themselves to persecuting former Peronist officials, and now cover up all the cases in which Macri is involved. They also work in favor of the needs of the current president, Javier Milei, and the Supreme Court, denounced daily for its collusion with the current government.