In the last hours, the version had circulated that, in his plans to compete in the PASO to try to reach re-election, President Alberto Fernández had slipped among his relatives that the photo of his meeting with Joe Biden could be read with an endorsement from the Democratic president to his possible candidacy in 2023. The issue of going to the PASO with the President, it is known, despairs Kirchnerism in general and the camporista faction in particular, which dedicates an endless string of grievances to Fernández, many of them through Andrés ‘Cuervo’ Larroque, and this Good Friday the one who was in charge of charging against the President in networks was the former deputy Fernanda Vallejos, who a couple of years ago had described Fernández as “sick” and “squatter”.
This time Vallejos did not name the President, although he implicitly pointed it out when he harshly questioned those who “get US support for a presidential candidacy”, pointing out that they do so “accepting the specifications and delivering assets in exchange strategic of the country”.
Vallejos’ series of tweets began by reviewing a meeting between Perón and the then US ambassador, Spruille Braden. On this subject, the former deputy pointed out that she was doing “a bit of history, to illuminate the present.”
Thus the thread of his tweets recounted that “Perón received Braden in his office at the Ministry of War and he told him that, by declaring war on Germany and Japan, the US government had seized goods and companies of that origin in that country. .
“Precisely, my government understands that it has deserved rights over these assets, taking into account the magnitude of effort and sacrifice of my nation in Europe and the Pacific. Surely you will understand: we demand a clear participation in the reallocation of these companies,” says Vallejos that Braden told Perón, in the office that he occupied in the Ministry of War.
And added Braden: “We are also concerned about the matter of the airlines. The issue of open skies is increasingly important for continental and world integration. What we are demanding is the liberation of Argentine airspace, to facilitate stopovers to other points of the continent”.
Faced with these requirements of the Yankee diplomat, Perón would have answered “Mr. Ambassador, I suppose that you are still a practical and business man. All these contributions, what would they have as a counterpart?”
“Look, Colonel, my government knows how to recognize its friends, even newcomers, you understand me. With these gestures of friendship on the part of your management, my country would not put obstacles to an eventual presidential candidacy. You well know that could be the candidate for president,” Vallejos wrote, quoting Braden in his Twitter thread, adding that Perón replied: “Look, ambassador, in relation to your request, all these claims could be settled, as so many other times, with convenient economic agreements and financial considerations. And believe me, they are not difficult to do,” said Perón. “But to carry them out, there is only one problem.”
“Which?” Braden asked. “That I’d rather be a stranger in your country than be a son of a bitch in mine. Here, anyone who does something like that is called a son of a bitch, as you say.” Braden got up from the chair and, without greeting, left Perón’s office,” former legislator K.
To conclude, with the “moral” that he wanted to get to with that story about Perón’s meeting with Braden: “Moral: any son of a bitch who accepts the specifications can get, in exchange for handing over the country’s strategic assets, US support for a presidential bid. So you know, if someone says the US supports them, ask what they gave up in return.”
Already in the final posts, Vallejos highlighted that this detail of the conversation between Braden and Perón “is also told by Jorge Coscia (a man of History and from the National Left) in Juan y Eva, and Perón himself told it, among other sources historical, in a conference at the Military College (Source: Jorge A. Ramos, The era of Peronism, Revolution and against…)”.
To close by indicating in one of the responses that his thread deserved, specifying that he had made this series of posts “to show how a good Argentine negotiates, and how mediocre and country-sellers would accept to hand over to the country.”
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