Even with Milei in power since 2023, nothing has changed: preventive prison sentences exceed the legal two years in 450 cases, with 203 surpassing 11 years, equivalent to anticipatory penalties that kill through negligence.
Of course, judges do grant house arrest to corrupt officials who stole billions of dollars.
“It is an undignified treatment for a 75-year-old man with chronic health problems,” stated Minnicelli when announcing a legal filing.
The former Minister of Federal Planning, sentenced to four years in prison for fraudulent administration in the Once tragedy – where 51 people died in 2012 – turned himself in (he was under house arrest for another cause) voluntarily on November 12 before the Federal Oral Court 2, but his request for house arrest was denied, and the justice system is evaluating whether to grant it.
De Vido, who had already served house arrest in his mansion in Puerto Panal (Zárate) – with an Olympic pool, private dock, and luxury aviaries – aspires to return there, where he could resume his hobby of raising exotic birds in giant cages.
In contrast, military personnel prosecuted for the “State terrorism” that defeated the brutal terrorism of the 70s face a calvary that violates basic constitutional principles.
In a country where justice seems to measure with a different yardstick depending on the ideology or power of the accused, the gap between the handling of corruption cases and processes against former members of the Armed Forces for human rights violations during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship has become an ethical and constitutional scandal.
Kirchnerism modified Article 32 of the Penal Code in 2010 – from “shall grant house arrest to those over 70” to “may grant” – to deny these benefits to these “political prisoners”.
While former Kirchnerist officials like Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Julio De Vido enjoy house arrest in luxury residences, with unlimited visits and complaints addressed immediately, hundreds of military personnel – many of them veterans of the Malvinas War – languish in common prisons under prolonged preventive detention, without adequate medical care and exposed to inhumane conditions that, in several cases, have led to premature deaths.
The Julio De Vido case illustrates this disparity.
Governor Martín Llaryora has been urged to intervene, but his priorities seem focused on urban and business negotiations.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whose six-year sentence in the Vialidad case was ratified by the Supreme Court in June 2025, embodies the pinnacle of privilege.
“It is time to close the Kirchnerist vendetta and honor those who defended the Fatherland,” warn the organizers.
Her defense presented a “confidential” list of 50 authorized people in June, including Lula da Silva, who visited her in July.
Yoga classes, virtual meetings, and unrestricted use of social networks complete her routine, while the court allows her appeals for “stress” for private consultations and to rally her supporters from the balcony.
This laxity contrasts with the rigidity imposed on the military: retroactivity of laws like the Rome Statute of 2002, the annulment of “Full Stop” and “Due Obedience” in 2005 by a decree from Néstor Kirchner, and “hired” witnesses with multi-million dollar state compensations, as revealed by audits in 2024.
Curious.
Cristina Kirchner with 10 invited economists.
Compared to Nuremberg – where 199 Nazis were tried and released in 50 years for 85 million abhorrent deaths – Argentina pursues 2,824 for 8,600 fallen guerrillas in an anti-terrorist war financed by Cuba and the USSR, where the forms of war were totally different from today's.
Under house arrest in her apartment in Constitución, she receives daily visits from dozens of political leaders, family members, and allies, as documented by photographs published on social networks and media.
On September 20, on the 100th day of her detention, a crowd mobilized in front of her door to “support her,” with figures like Axel Kicillof and Wado de Pedro.
“These men, who fought in Malvinas against a foreign invasion, die alone in damp cells, without the minimum right to a doctor,” relates a family report released this week.
Trials with laws enacted after the facts, activist prosecutors, and a “constructed memory” of false witnesses have turned processes into political vendettas.
On Saturday, November 29, at 4 p.m., family members, veterans, and libertarians are calling for a gathering at Plaza de Mayo to demand immediate freedom.
The average age is 81 years, and at least 30 are over 90.
In Córdoba, the epicenter of detentions in the Bouwer prison, recent complaints reveal a total absence of medication for chronic pathologies like cancer and dementia, physical mistreatment, and prolonged isolation.
According to data from the Union for the Promotion of Retired Officers, of the 2,824 prosecuted since 2003, 1,050 have been convicted and 813 await a sentence, with 957 having died in prison or under process, many without a firm verdict.
After being transferred to the Ezeiza prison, his wife and lawyer, Alessandra Minnicelli, denounced on November 15 serious irregularities: erratic schedules for the delivery of medications for his hypertension and diabetes, poor nutrition, and restrictions on communications.
