the rise to power of the Vaca Narvaja

“We are not the Kennedys, eh …”, assures a member of the family, who tries to explain that in reality, all this is much more rudimentary than it seems.

Scattered in recent years between Cordoba, the south of the country, the city and the coast of Buenos Aires, Vaca Narvaja, a surname with a history from the 70s, linked to Montoneros, later linked to Kirchnerism, including blood ties, have diversified in these times in the public service between diplomacy, AFIP and the political thread.

Sabino Vaca NarvajaThe ambassador to Beijing, son of Fernando, one of the founders of Montoneros, is the most prominent, and the favorite of Cristina Kirchner.

In fact, the official met the Vice President at an intimate meal thanks to his brother Camilo, former partner of Florencia Kirchner, father of the granddaughter of the former president and director general of government action at the general secretariat of the presidency.

It was a few years ago. While his brother worked for deputies – he was adviser to Julián Domínguez – Sabino Vaca Narvaja did the same in the Senate: at that time he was advising Beloved Boudou In international relations, he had already started to study Mandarin Chinese and improve his skills in Asian power and wanted to meet the former president to show him his geopolitical vision.

Cristina Kirchner was fascinated. In fact, when the Frente de Todos won the election, the vice-president appropriated three destinations: the OAS, Russia and China. He sent Carlos Raimundi, Alicia Castro, who ultimately resigned to go to the Kremlin due to internal short circuits, and Vaca Narvaja, respectively.

Below, in the formal, of Luis Maria Kreckler, the official took over the embassy in China after the diplomat’s political setback in the midst of the vaccine crisis at the end of last year. A premeditated stumble that would happen as soon as possible.

After having fled the country for the most part of the family and crossed Mexico, the eldest of the Fernando Vaca Narvaja and Maria Josefa Fleming He lived a good part of his childhood in the secret nursery that Montoneros installed in exile in Havana – in the company of nearly fifty children of guerrilla leaders like María Fernanda Raverta-, portrayed by Analía Argento in his delivered The Montonera nursery.

On their return and settle in the south of the city of Buenos Aires, after a tour of Havana, Central America, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay and Rosario, Santa Fe – where his mother is from. -, Camilo Vaca Narvaja, who works, according to the organization chart, under the orders of Julio Vitobello since the start of last year, he arrived with a Cuban accent.

Formally, the former partner of Florence kirchner is responsible for preparing certain reports of the General Secretariat linked to Parliament. In fact, it oils up relationships. About political leaders and social movements. Yes seeks to settle, for the moment in a very nascent way, in the third section of Greater Buenos Aires. In particular, in Lanús, who suffered with the two triumphs of Néstor Grindetti, a leader of the diaspora. He competes with Agustín Balladares, of the seat of the Cabinet and the Evita Movement, known in the region for his militant ostentation.

Enrique Luis Vaca Narvaja, the Argentine ambassador to Peru, is the one who keeps the low profile. Brother of Fernando and uncle of Camilo and Sabino, he is a career diplomat. In his youth he left Mexico for the Netherlands, learned languages, worked as hard as he could and then joined the National Foreign Service Institute (ISEN) where he made a career.

His low profile matches his current apathy for the party: he is a full-time diplomat. “In any case, he has a national and popular thought”, remarks a relative. And he specifies, in connection with the internal tensions and the struggle between Albertism -native- and Kirchnerism: “First of all, we are all Cristinistas.”

Patricia vaca narvaja, one of the many sisters of former chief Montonero, has not spoken with the vice president for a long time, despite having held a seat during her government and staying at the embassy of Mexico City until the end of the former president’s term.

It was Mercedes Marcó del Pont who summoned her to AFIP: surgical instrumentalist graduated from the University of Cordoba, she appointed her to head the Sub-Directorate General for Taxpayer Services.

The former ambassador does not have frequent dialogue with Alberto Fernández either. In the case of the former president, the link with the organization goes through Virginia García, her ex-daughter-in-law, an activist camper, at the head of the strategic general direction of taxes: she channels her concerns.

Vaca Narvaja alternates her time between Miramar and the city: in 2018, she was isolated in this city on the coast of Buenos Aires with her partner, Gustavo “La Chancha” Gemini, a former Peronist activist who had his good times in the Buenos Aires PJ. Eduardo Valdés is, for example, one of the family’s main friends. Retired, he is now in politics in the provincial district: in 2009 they bought a house of 187 square meters in this city, and later an apartment, as an investment, in 2019, of 30 square meters.

As part of the family, Gemelli also had his time in the state: he was employed by the chief of staff and by the Senate during Kirchnerism. His daughter also: It is a permanent factory of the Administrative Office of the Upper House.

Fernando Vaca Narvaja, for its part, continues to be ostracized. He tried to be a candidate for Bariloche a few years ago, but he ultimately refused. He is part of a political group which they say sits to the left of the government.