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In a move to link Peronism with the offensive posters against Cristina Kirchner, the Buenos Aires justice raided the home of Darío Méndez, the owner of the shed from which the fixers who stuck the posters came out. The Public Ministry of the City of Buenos, in a statement, awarded Méndez the central role: “He is the one who commissioned the posters.” In fact, Méndez -linked to the macrismo- had already presented himself to the police and said that the posters were printed in Lanús and that a hierarchical of the printing press, Francisco Serrano, only hired him to paste the posters. Without presenting any evidence, he stated that the operation was carried out at the request of a publicist from the Frente de Todos. In reality, the most advanced and solid investigation is in the national justice of the City of Buenos Aires: before the prosecutor Leonel Gómez Barbella the owner of the Lanús printing press has already declared, admitting that the posters were printed there and that Serrano brought the order . Judge Manuel de Campos ordered his arrest and the hierarchical has already announced that he will appear today.
This Monday, the prosecutor Mauro Tereszco requested the search of the home of Méndez, whose son, Christian, was in charge of the sticker of the violent posters against CFK. Last Thursday, Christian and four other fixers were arrested in the Morón shed and were released almost immediately because the crime carries a low penalty. But the owner of the shed and the fixing company is Darío Méndez, whose home has now been raided.
The story that Buenos Aires justice tries to put together is the reverse of the real one. In the statement issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of CABA, it is maintained that Méndez is the one who commissioned the posters and that during the search they found a truck plotted with the faces of the mayor of La Matanza, Fernando Espinoza, the governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, the deputy governor, Verónica Magario, in addition to remains of the cartels against Cristina. In other words, the Buenos Aires statement tries to link the posters with Peronism. It is common knowledge that Méndez and his company put up posters for all political forces, in addition to promoting the presence of musicians and other events with posters. So it is not surprising that plots and other elements of all kinds and colors appear.
The reality is what the national Justice shows
The reality is what is seen in the other cause. The owner of the Viagraphic printing press, Julio César Franchino, admitted to prosecutor Gómez Barbella that the posters were printed at his company and that the one who brought the order was a senior employee, Serrano. Franchino provided as evidence the emails in which it is clear that Serrano formulated the order. In parallel, Méndez was on channel A24 this Monday and reiterated the same thing: his son stuck up the posters in exchange for 90,000 pesos and at the request of Serrano. Except that at the end of his statement to the police, Méndez maintained that the posters came from the Peronist publicist José Pepe Albistur. Of that he did not provide any evidence.
The national criminal judge De Campos ordered the arrest of Serrano who announced that he would appear today. Everything indicates that the posters were printed and pasted at the request of a macrismo publicist, Valentin Bueno, in whose company Serrano worked until last year. This hypothesis was presented by Albistur, who is a complainant in the case. He did it last Friday through a letter delivered by his lawyer. We will have to see what Serrano declares today when he appears before the magistrate and the prosecutor, but there are some things that are clear:
- The posters were printed at Viagraphic in Lanús. They retired on Saturday, March 26.
- The request was made by Francisco Serrano, a kind of foreman of the printing press, also dedicated to finding clients and jobs.
- Serrano worked for LatCom, the company of the macrista publicist Bueno. During the government of Mauricio Macri, with the signature of Marcos Peña, Bueno was assigned an unusual number of poster campaigns on public roads.
- Serrano’s statement will be key, but the evidence will weigh more than that: how was the original of the poster delivered to the printer? What were the communications, by cell phone and by messages, in which the work was agreed? Who paid?
With all these elements, it will be possible to find out who was really behind the dirty campaign.