Thousands come out to march against the government // Legislator key to his reforms ends up arrested in Paraguay for currency smuggling

▲ In Buenos Aires, the Federal Fight Plan began, calling for labor unions and more social organizations against the government. In the image, a protester makes political criticism with a puppet that represents Milei handled by the Uncle Sam.Photo Afp

Stella Calloni

Correspondent

La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, December 6, 2024, p. 21

Buenos Aires., The succession of political events that the government of Javier Milei could not control yesterday was a hurricane, such as the massive march and event in the Plaza de Mayo at the beginning of a Federal Fight Plan under the motto The country is not for sale, for an Argentina without hunger, with peace, social justice and sovereigntyorganized by the two Argentine Workers (CTA) confederations, while a forum of far-right organizations convened by the president culminated in the luxurious Hilton Hotel.

At the same time, under pressure from Israel, the Supreme Court of Justice unexpectedly decided that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner go to trial for signing a judicial cooperation agreement with Iran in 2013, promoted to clarify the attack against a Jewish community of Buenos Aires perpetrated in 1994, which never materialized, but according to the magistrates in reality sought to free Tehran of blame.

With the signature of all its members, the Supreme Court accused Fernández de Kirchner of covering up the memorandum case, and, at the same time, confirmed that the former president was acquitted of the crime of fraud to the detriment of the public administration in relation to the future dollar sales operations carried out by the Central Bank during its administration.

In 2014, during the campaign of the right-wing Alianza Cambiemos to win the 2015 elections, with the help of the media, an investigation and trial were opened for alleged embezzlement in future dollar operations. Nine years later the inconsistency of that cause was demonstrated.

This happens amid the commotion over the arrest in Paraguay of Senator Edgardo Kueider, who went from being elected by Peronism from the Argentine province of Entre Ríos last year to an active militant of the ruling party La Libertad Avanza (LLA), when he passed to the neighboring country with 211 thousand dollars and 6 million pesos in cash, along with his secretary Iara Magdalena Guinsel Costa.

Was an earthquake at the end of the year, when it was at its best on an image level. He is left without a vote in the Senate, loses a key ally and cannot detach himself from Kueider’s gestures towards the government, despite trying to link him with former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerwrote Jonathan Heguier in The Uncovering.

He added that Kueder, who did not clarify the origin of the money he was carrying, was indispensable for the ruling party in key votes for important debates.

The Peronist Union for the Homeland is advancing at a firm pace to expel the Entre Ríos senator, who would be replaced by a leader from La Cámpora, which would gain one senator and reach 34 legislators, a figure that puts it one step away from representing the simple majority .

On the tumultuous Thursday, the columns of union members, social movements and others achieved the support of thousands and thousands of organizations, including university students, which converged in the same place with the March of resistance called by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line. All this, in the midst of the deployment of the five security forces, which could not maintain the police protocol of repression championed by Minister Patricia Bullrich.

financial disaster

Important unions also participated in the mobilization. “Milei has multiplied poverty, hunger and industricide, while the country defends itself by building unity; a homeland for all, in order to confront and defeat this Milei, who wants to destroy Argentina (..); it must be prevented. If Congress does not do it, we are going to do what is necessary to defend the country,” said Hugo Ernesto. Puppy Godoy, national general secretary of the CTA of Argentina.

The general secretary of the other labor union, Hugo Yasky, referred to the unionists who have channels of dialogue with the government and maintained: We do not participate because we consider that this is not the direction the country needs.and added that the federal day of struggle is a dilemma between resigning ourselves and bowing our heads in the face of the cruelty of the Milei government or creating a space for all those who believe in the need to confront its policies.

The issue of removing free medications from retirees is currently a model of government cruelty. They have sentenced us to deathseveral of the activists shouted yesterday in the middle of the march.

Fascist convention gray

Meanwhile, against the background of these demonstrations and scandals, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), convened by Milei, met from Wednesday night at the sumptuous Hilton Hotel, in front of which there was a march of protest by anti-fascist organizations. At the conclave, Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of the next president of the United States, Donald Trump, was the initial speaker, followed by other attendees of conservative ideology. It turned out to be a poor event that went unnoticed by everyone, including the media. friends.

Yesterday Lara Trump received the Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Award from Milei and, in recognition of the CPAC, they posed in front of the cameras with their thumbs up and dancing, as Donald Trump does at his events.

In the end, the host closed the meeting with a violent speech, in which he referred, without naming him, to his partner, former president Mauricio Macri, considering the possibilities of a political alliance with the head of the PRO to be distant, and warned: now the results are with us.

He also defended his first year in office: We are the government that in the first year has the best level of image and consumer confidence after having made the largest adjustment in the history of humanity.

He spoke against the Latin American presidents whom he will have to face today at the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) summit to be held in Montevideo.

The president confirmed his unrestricted alignment with the future Trump government, with whom he intends to sign a free trade agreement with Mercosur, although he knows that said association is unacceptable to his peers in the region.