After the excarapintada Aldo Rico will launch a coup message through social networks, The Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation denounced him criminally for crimes against the constitutional order. “It is noted that this is a public message addressed to his ‘comrades’ with the aim of rising up against the Constitution National and depose the democratic public powers. The expressions of Aldo Rico contain a public and appropriate threat against democratically elected authorities“said the body led by Horacio Pietragalla Corti.
During Thursday, Rico uploaded to his social networks a video of more than four minutes in which –with a military tone– he called other “veterans” like himself –referring to the Malvinas War and what he calls the ” war against subversion”– to prepare for what he described as a scenario of “anarchy. Rico’s message went viral and generated rejection from workers’ organizations and human rights organizations.
On Friday afternoon, Pietragalla Corti filed a complaint in the courts of Commodore Py. “As Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation and due to the recent history of our country, I am obliged to denounce these very serious events. This, in compliance with the indeclinable duty to carry out concrete and effective actions in order to guarantee the validity of the National Constitution, the unrestricted defense of democracy and to ensure the ‘Never Again’ and make the postulates of Memory, Truth and Justice”, says the presentation to which he agreed Page 12.
For the Human Rights Secretariat, Rico’s expressions added to his character as a retired military officer, his contacts with the forces and his role as leader in two carapintadas uprisings in 1987 and 1988 come together to understand that he is threatening the constitutional authorities. Along the same lines, Pietragalla Corti asked the justice system to urgently investigate whether there is –as Rico suggests– an organizing process among Army veterans.
The current head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Agustín Rossi, came out to repudiate Rico’s sayings, although he estimated that its impact is “extremely negligible” in the armed forces. Rossi, who also commanded the Defense portfolio, included Rico as a “sinister” character of democracy and he also placed him together with former Foreign Minister Carlos Ruckauf and former Intelligence Secretary Miguel Ángel Toma, who asked to advance the elections. “The Rico thing escalates one more step, fundamentally because of his coup history,” he remarked in dialogue with Radio Nacional.
The Ministry of Defense followed the matter with interest, although they said that It’s been 30 years since Rico has no military statusfor which it was not up to the authorities of the portfolio headed by Jorge Taiana -whom the ex-carapintada accused of being a “terrorist”– nor to the Army to apply sanctions.
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