Exclusive, unpublished book by López Rega: prophecies, diatribes against the left and his relationship with Perón and Isabelita

In her small house on the outskirts of Asunción, Paraguay, María Elena Cisneros keeps unpublished documents about her late husband. It's nothing more than José López Rega, one of the darkest and most mysterious leaders in Argentine history. After leaving the Isabelita government on July 11, 1975, López Rega did not speak more publicly. He lived for over ten years in exile with Cisneros, the young composer from Entre Ríos, who broke the silence with Infobae a few weeks ago. They were together until the arrest of López Rega in the United States on March 13, 1986, at the Miami International Airport. During the weeks of his imprisonment in the United States, the former Peronist minister quickly wrote the second part of "The Language of Truth", successor to his first autobiographical book published in early 1975 in which he reviewed his management. Ministry of Social Affairs. The 88-page text remained unpublished until today.

The material he accessed Infobae It contains footnotes handwritten by López Rega to his wife, Cisneros, in which he asks, inter alia, to add photographs to text written with a typewriter – for example a photo of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Infobae has also consulted the Peronist fire log calendars, letters sent by López Rega to world leaders such as Franco and the manuscripts in which he explains his version of these tragic years. During those weeks, arrested in the United States, before his extradition to Argentina, López Rega seems obsessed with explaining to the country his role in Libya – known as the 1974 Mission to Argentina in the last few months of Government of Juan Domingo Perón – and the importance that he says have in the recovery of the body of Evita.

"The language of truth" he finished writing June 29, 1986. He was 69 years old. His last three years were spent in Argentine jails for conspiracy, kidnappings and kidnappings and killings perpetrated by the parapublic organization called Triple A.

The unpublished book of López Rega is dedicated "to the Argentine people as a testimony of my innocence", said the head of the Peronist governments in detention. In the same paragraph, he stated that he had accomplished "with God, my country and my conscience" before drawing a parallel with the crucifixion of Christ: "If Pilate comes back today to wash his hands two thousand years ago, freeing Barrabas and condemning Christ, I offer my sufferings to God in exchange for the happiness of my country.". He concludes that "the teaching of time indicates the smallness of man".

In another footnote, López Rega asks his wife, Cisneros, to negotiate the publication of the book in the United States giving him the corresponding instructions, in addition to asking him to choose for the cover a photo of him with General Perón and Isabel. He greets her with a "I like you a lot and I miss you so much".

His departure from the government of Isabel Martínez de Perón

In Infobae's interview with Cisneros, Lopez Rega's second wife insists that her husband was not expelled from the Isabelita government but it was he who resigned. In his unpublished book, the former Minister of Social Protection preceded the letter he sent to the president of the nation at the time. Dated 11 July 1975, he wrote to Martínez de Perón to accept his resignation from all charges "as a patriotic contribution tending to the pacification of disturbed spirits". He adds: "My detractors and antipatriots will be responsible for completing a vast volume, but the end will be only God and the people himself." After the first clarification that the prisoner López Rega wanted to make "to the people", begins a book divided in four parts: "Who am I really", "Why do they persecute me?", "The justicialista movement" and "L & # 39, man

The introduction is written in the third person and its author attempts to explain his days in prison by concluding the text with a "prisoner's sentence and slander" (SIC).

The author of "Esoteric Astrology" uses his novelistic skills in his unpublished text. Between religion and mysticism, politics appears in the first chapter in which one asks who he really is. He complains of "journalistic saturation" towards his person "far from the truth". Guarantees that the media "sold information to the highest bidder" and that they are "enemies of world democracy and, above all, enemies of our country".

The irreconcilable struggle between the left and the Peronist right is reflected in the first chapter when López Rega declares: "A student has failed because he does not study, turns to the communist left and then sells his body and his brain to a national adventure to integrate guerrilla groups that exert violent terrorism to the detriment of the innocent. This is how they damage the world, their homeland and the human race, giving a reality to Bible prophecies."Concludes that" in this context (the journalist and Communists "infiltrated" in politics) developed controversial advertising about me and my life (…) trying at all times to create a discredit and to introduce myself as a disgusting being "

After being sent against "communist" ideologies that "undermine freedom and democracy" and against the media, López Rega reviews his personal data, his studies and explains why he refused to speak to the press for years. "These interviews are usually distorted and applied in their writing depending on the interests of those who" hide "the operation, paying for the mercenary minds that are loaned to them."

López Rega calls the third government of Perón "our government". He claims to be "accused of paternalism and demagoguery, always in the mouths of political opponents who seem to have too much foreign influence, so they criticize the positive facts and deny the realities of a patriotic task" . As to paraphrase Cristina Kirchner's slogan, "It was not magic," López Rega explains that "it was not a miracle, but it was an honest and real job in favor People". He speaks of the work done and declares that "in three years of government – between the brief tenure of Raúl Lastina, that of General Perón and that of Isabelita – no loan has been requested to the Foreigners, but the payment of the services of the contracted debt has been regularized by the de facto governments, bringing it back to about six billion dollars.

"The result of the de facto military government's performance – refers to the military dictatorship headed by Jorge Rafael Videla – was a country in mourning, where all sectors suffered horrors, a frightening misery and an external debt of 40 billion. the creditor entities, to ensure their recovery, tarnish with their demands the clear sovereignty for which we struggle all our lives ". It should be recalled that this unpublished text was written in 1986.

The day they wanted to kill Perón

In the unpublished book of López Rega, the author says that Perón was "like a father" and not like a friend. He reviews the main objectives of his administration during the years when he accompanied Perón during his exile at the Puerta de Hierro: "Operativo Retorno de Perón". In one of the juiciest sections of the book, he presents his version of what happened on November 17, 1972, the day Peron returned to the country for the first time.

López Rega recalls that "a helicopter from the Presidency of the nation took away and brought back fast and nervous flights to the sailor Enrique Martínez, secretary of the Presidency and official candidate in the presidential election with Mr. Sajón, secretary of information "(refers to the journalist Edgardo Sajón, former secretary to the press and to the diffusion of the de facto government of Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, disappeared in 1977 during the last military dictatorship).

"They tried by all means to calm the mood of the population, which already reported that Peron and his entourage were in custody, fearing a bloody civil rebellion." We saw on television that the two officials told the press General Perón had decided to rest a little at the hotel before leaving and, under the promise not to disturb, he would allow television cameras to point to the door of the room. "

Lopez Rega remembers seeing "the occasion and I consulted the general and his wife, who approved my idea of ​​leaving the room while all the cameramen were in front of her." We calculated the time of their arrival and surprisingly we left. and they threatened us with them, I told him aloud, to the one who commanded this special group (which had in his pocket a letter with specific instructions for extreme cases) something like this: the general is it stopped? these cameramen are formed under his care, to return home. "In his story, López Rega concludes that they left" with dignity, despite the "secret orders" and the machine guns and troops that prevented the pbadage, why did not they react violently? Because it was not possible to justify the murder of Peron yours, in front of the world's television cameras. "

Much has been written about why the Social Welfare Minister took the place of the Minister of Economy, José Ber Gelbard, in diplomatic and trade missions with Libya. According to López Rega, there are "certain problems of religious nature that have created difficulties for the operation". Gelbard was a practitioner of the Jewish religion. On the real agreements signed between the two countries, Rega Lopez insists that they do not buy weapons, but "my mission was to sell us oil." However, he informed that representatives of the three armed forces had gone with the delegation.

But, according to the unpublished book until today, "the operation was so difficult that the signature was made in the plane at the very moment of departure, with the logical enthusiasm of triumph on the part of the entire mission ". The cost, according to the document, is $ 2 billion.

The author ends the chapter by gathering two press conferences he gave in 1974, one accompanied by Gelbard and the other by the engineer Celestino Rodrigo. It concludes with a boycott of the negotiations by the "antipatria and communist movements".

In the chapter "General Perón goes away", López Rega recalls that the justicialist leader "woke up very well on the day of his death." He got up from his bed and went to sit in an armchair. " That morning we had a meeting of the government and decided with the lady. Before going down, we went to greet him, the lady and me, and he smiled and said, "They are leaving!" He badured us that he was fine and laughed happily when we explained that the meeting was held there and the meeting was held with the presence of all the ministers. We had been together for three quarters of an hour when the housekeeper entered the room with enthusiasm, she called me to tell me that the general was very bad.

"We headed the lady and I and the general was looked after by the family doctors and several young doctors who were guarding the fifth Olivos presidential election. The general was totally unconscious and practiced mbadages and electroshocks, without favorable answers.. On television, his heart rate was high. I was weak I tried to take his hands and talk to him in a stimulating way, praying to God for his recovery. He came to feel my desires and sometimes I felt a pressure on his hands and on the screen, the answer was weak.
The wonderful and hardworking young doctors struggled more than two hours to try to get him out of the dead and finally at 11:15 he died in my arms.

These were the last moments of General Perón's life.

Mrs. Perón, who, two days earlier, had taken office as president before the secretary of the government, by decision of the general himself, was at all times attentive to the result and understood the enormous responsibility that this misfortune bore on his shoulders. He renewed himself with integrity and acted with courage and Christian spirit for the good of the homeland. "

The coup d'etat and betrayal of the Peronist party

López Rega gets rid of those who betrayed Isabelita. She says that she and her "humble person" are "the last links in the Perón group". Explaining the coup d'etat of March 24, 1976, he badures that "the Movement, the Party and the justicialist leaders lent themselves to favor the ambitions of military cliques, thus facilitating the coup d'etat". to starving lions who wanted to withdraw from the government, they kidnapped her as an ordinary delinquent, without any of those who told us every day: "Hard Isabelita", "Lopecito corazón" would raise her voice to try to defend herself , and allowing the disgrace to see the dignity of the natural president of Justicialismo legally and by its merits exceeded ".

"I have been in exile for twelve years and more than 100 days in prison in a foreign country, where at least they are trying to do me justice against the legal lies presented. I write this book to let posterity get the real knowledge of the historical facts … "" The second thing: to see with your publication earn money to pay for the expenses of defense attorneys who, like my parents in the past, think I have gold ".

Not to mention the parastatal organization "Triple A", López Rega writes, in one of the last pages of his unpublished book, that: "I have never encouraged violence, neither of right nor of left." I've always called the reflection of the bad ones. by offering them to collaborate in the national reconstruction (…) I am totally innocent of what they accuse me and they say that in 11 years, they could not prove anything, I am a man of peace, of justice and love, I am a creator and a progressive. "He concludes that" I could shake myself like a wet dog and get me annoying fleas "by giving names and accusing entities and characters, but I I was not born for that.

"The monster had made a big mistake, the man was really clean." The book is signed by José López Rega and has been kept under seven keys for 33 years. Today has seen the light.

Journalistic research and collaboration: Omar Pintos