Behind the cataract of criticism that he received for eviction operation developed by the federal forces in Villa Mascardi last week, which even came from his own partners in the Front for All, the Minister of Security, Hannibal Fernandez, He came out to answer the questions harshly through his Twitter account.
“I read with astonishment that you want to compare the action of the forces in Villa Mascardi with the manhunt that the government of Cambiemos carried out in the past”, introduced the minister who answers to President Alberto Fernández, who claimed that the action in Río Negro was related to the compliance with the law and court orders.
“They seem not to notice that our government does not use spies or judicial operators to agree with the courts on the measures to be carried out,” he said, along the same lines.
“They are not instructed to carry out violent acts and if they are entrusted to do rational use of force This is so, taking into account that the first fundamental human right is life”, said the Minister of Security, after being targeted more than anything for the transfer to Ezeiza at first of four of the women arrested in Río Negro and for the treatment of another of the detainees, who is pregnant. Also, due to the presence of children when the uniformed men burst in.
In the last part of his defense, Fernández indicated, with his characteristic irony: “Those who consider that compliance with the law and judicial orders is a la carte menuThey don’t understand what it’s like to live in a republican system.”
It was the federal judge Silvina Dominguez who ordered the deployment, last Tuesday, of federal forces in that area of Villa Mascardi where the Mapuche community Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu carried out a usurpation of land that caused repeated complaints from the locals; and also the transfers to Buenos Aires, which were later reversed.
After those days, Fernández was objected even on the internal front. The strongest symbol of that malaise was the resignation of the then Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta, who said that he was leaving the Government because the arrests of women and children in Río Negro with the participation of federal forces they were “incompatible” with the “values” that she defends. In that letter he was strong: spoke of “obvious violations of human rights.”
Meanwhile, La Cámpora also issued a forceful statement against the procedure. “We repudiate with great concern the militarization and violation of rights that has been taking place in Villa Mascardi since last October 4 from the actions of the Federal Forces Unified Command who evicted and detained girls, boys and women, moving four of them more than 1,500 kilometers away from their children, without the right to defense and with ignorance of the crimes they are accused of,” they said from the organization who drives Maximo Kirchnerthe national deputy and son of Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
In that press release, they considered that the actions of the federal forces, led by Fernández, were not It was consistent with international human rights standards and treaties. “It shows the lack of gender perspective y ignorance of interculturality of the Judiciary and the intervening actors”, they also said.
Likewise, from the group that represents the toughest Kirchnerism, they demanded “recover the path of dialogue” to resolve the Mapuche conflict.
The criticisms of Fernández – who yesterday denied his departure from the Cabinet in the middle of replacement of figures in the dome of the Executive were even more vehement from the left sectors. Meanwhile, from Together for Change (JxC) They also questioned it by assuring that the arrests would not have reached the leaders of the usurpations.
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