Milei’s new controversial appointments: a confessed Nazi who attacked synagogues and a defender of the dictatorship

2023-12-01 19:18:33

“Argentina needs order. It’s simple: whoever does it, pays for it.“. Patricia Bullrich responded with a threatening fist to her official appointment this Friday as Minister of Security of the next Government of far right in Argentina. The president-elect, Javier Milei, has offered other surprises about his political predilections, a few days after taking office. Rodolfo Barraa former member of the Supreme Court and Minister of Justice during the 1990s, will coordinate the team of state lawyers who will be in charge of shielding the drastic economic reform plan of capitalist anarcho.

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Barra was an important figure in the Government of Carlos Menem (1989-99) and was forced to abandon his position when his Nazi past. Three decades before entering public activity, had thrown tar against a synagogue and sympathized with the ideas of Adolf Hilter, as a member of the Tacuara ultranationalist movement. Magazine News He posted a photo of himself doing the Nazi salute.. Barra recognized this youthful affiliation and expressed his regret, but he could not continue as a close collaborator of Menem. He had left his mark as the author of the so-called ‘gag law’ that sought to increase penalties for slander and insults and that targeted the press critical of Menem.

Barra was later hired by the Airports businessman, Eduardo Eurnekian, who also years ago offered Milei a job as an economist. After many years of silence, reappeared publicly to condemn the law that decriminalized abortion in 2020. “Human life is from conception. Every human being is a person. It is the law that governs us and we must comply and respect. Decriminalization is a violation of the Constitution and the Convention. The State has to ensure rights are respected.”

Defender of the last dictatorship

Before knowing Barra’s appointment, it was reported that Milei will place Maria Eleonora Urrutia in front of the area Education. The extreme right will reduce it to a secretariat attached to the Ministry of Human Capital, which will in turn absorb the portfolios of Health, Labor and Social Development. Sandra Pettovello, a journalist who also presents herself as a reiki specialistthe alternative medicine practiced in Japan, will serve from 10 onwards as a kind of super minister.

Under his leadership will be Urrutia, who is married to Hernán Büchithe Minister of Economy considered the architect of the neoliberal reforms of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The names of Büchi and Urrutia were printed in the ‘Panama Papers’, as the information leak of confidential documents related to strategies to hide money in tax havens became known.

Lawyer Urrutia is a defender of the last military dictatorship argentina. “The peaceful military uprising who dismissed the Government of Isabelita (Isabel Perón) enjoyed unrestricted support from all political parties, personalities and civil society groups of all ideologies,” he wrote in the Chilean magazine The bookcase, five years ago. The author does not speak of repression and violations of human rights but of a “Inside war”.

In his opinion, the military government “committed errors and horrors within the framework of the civil war unleashed by Marxist terrorism, but these were not in the proportion or dimension that their enemies intend to impose on them.” Her position is close to that of the vice president-elect, Victoria Villarruel. In this sense, Urrutia criticized the reopening of trials for perpetrators of crimes against humanity. “When Néstor Kirchner takes office decides to re-initiate these trials, out of revenge, for putting together a story, for an agreement with the extreme left. The fact is that these trials that were closed, with the problem solved from a legal, institutional and constitutional point of view and that had pacified the country – with tensions, but no country emerges from a civil war without tensions – are reopened.”