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Argentina's Major Corruption and Hopes for Reform

The article analyzes the scale of corruption under the Kirchners in Argentina, suggesting that stolen euros were converted into diamonds for concealment. The author also expresses optimism due to the growing influence of the La Libertad Avanza party, which could implement necessary reforms for the country.


Argentina's Major Corruption and Hopes for Reform

Prosecutors have no possibility, due to lack of resources, to follow this supposed lead, but the international association of investigative journalists, which uncovered so many crimes in the world, could; for example, the 'Panamá Papers'.Having made my modest contribution to the eventual recovery of what was stolen, it is time to talk a little about the Argentine reality.Given the weekly amounts collected by the one-eyed deceased and his widow – in the case of Roberto Baratta, only one of the many 'collectors', they reached €300,000 weekly – one can imagine the monumental volume that came to accumulate in armored vaults in the city of Buenos Aires and southern Argentina.Let us now think about the desperation that must have befallen Cristina Fernández in the face of such a risk: what to do with so many euros that would become useless if not exchanged for something easier to use?And it was said that – and it has now been confirmed by the confessions of many 'repentant' in the 'Notebooks' case – that Néstor Kirchner, the patriarch of the gangster family and the original organizer of the looting, demanded precisely in those banknotes the payment of the bribes he received.On the contrary, I express my astonishment, and my delight, at the growth of the La Libertad Avanza bloc in the House of Representatives, which has allowed this – a newly constituted national party – to already secure a plurality in the Chamber of Deputies; and I say this because this position of strength, in addition to pushing pero-kirchnerism into the dirtiest corner of the trunk of history, will allow it – and demand it – to make the still-pending reforms in labor, tax, criminal, educational, and health matters.Because, until that essential legislation is passed, the micro-economy, that universe in which we all move daily, will not improve: new registered and well-paying jobs will not be created, the necessary investments needed to achieve the competitiveness of our economy will not arrive, we will not be able to accumulate reserves, and many companies – as is already happening – will continue to close their doors, public education will continue to plummet until it makes the growing technological gap that separates us from the great powers definitively insurmountable, and the absurd infant mortality that causes the reappearance of long-forgotten diseases will persist.By Enrique Guillermo Avogadro

'Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers'. William Shakespeare

Prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola are conducting a tough investigation aimed at finding and seizing the assets of Cristina Fernández, her children, accomplices, and frontmen to return to the State the proceeds from the largest corruption episode in our history.Since Repsol extracts the oil there, and Cristina Fernández and Axel Kicilloff had just 'nationalized' their shares in YPF, any business in the sector was unthinkable, and so only stones remained.By then, it was already announced that the European Central Bank would withdraw the 500-euro notes from circulation, which facilitated the movement of illegal funds in spurious transactions.But she went even further, bringing a ship with a cow, a false harvester, some chickens, anti-Clarín merchandising, and a bunch of unexplained containers; we all remember the sad spectacle she put on in Luanda, its capital, pretending to flap and milk, but none of that served, as was natural, for Argentina to sell anything in that country.Intrigued, I looked into the African country a little more, and I discovered that Jose Eduardo dos Santos, its President (1979/2017), was in reality a corrupt tyrant (as much as the Kirchners) who had put one of his daughters in charge of the state oil company and, the other, in charge of the diamond company (Angola is the second producer, after Russia).But, of course, their achievements will be limited to the registrable assets and bank accounts, here and abroad, since it will be very difficult for them to reach those others that, perhaps like the allegedly buried cash and the funds deposited in tax havens, remain off the official radar.For this reason, I will insist on the theory that I published in two notes in May 2012 ('The Cat of Angola' and 'Diamonds are Eternal'), since it is clear that the organizer and head of that monumental criminal organization continues to laugh at us from her pseudo-prison on San José 1111, with her fortune safe and sound.Because it was 'coincidentally' at that moment (2012) that the former President organized, with the collaboration of another inmate, the renowned Guillermo Patotín Moreno, a trade mission to Angola, with whom we have no business; the exchange, of only US$11 million annually at its best, has been zero since 2017.I will refrain from getting into the filthy mire of the AFA because, as everyone knows, with what I don't know about football, one could make the entire encyclopedia.Then, someone must have approached her with the idea of converting them into diamonds, which are just crystals susceptible to being cut, easily transported, and traded without leaving a trace and, in addition, they do not take up space nor do they set off alarms in the airport arches.As I imagine, of course, without proof, she ordered her most faithful secretaries, all illegally enriched, to pack the 'bricks' of euros into several containers and ship them, undeclared, on the ship that would carry our colored trinkets to Angola, and there she exchanged them for the stones that allowed her to regain spiritual peace.