Journalists who persecuted the opposition and who today fear being imprisoned

In Argentina, there was a systematic plan of persecution of the media and judiciary against the main actors of the popular field, in order to install and maintain a government related to the interests of society United States and the local elite: change.

Politicians, trade unionists, social leaders, journalists, artists and intellectuals were daily insulted by a huge machinery of public manipulation. Many of them have been imprisoned for armed causes that turned out to be false afterwards.

Through devaluations, the elimination of withholding taxes, usurious rates and interest rates, they have transferred more than $ 100 billion from the company to a few thousand entrepreneurs. The winners have escaped their benefits and provide them with foreign currency borrowed by the state. The balance is an indebted and impoverished country and a part of society in a desperate situation.

To make this process workable the cases against the opposition were armed. Thus, the population was distracted by another subject while highlighting a culprit of the disaster.

The strategy is continental and documents have already been published in Rocket to the moon and in Discover which show that the booklet comes from the north. It was used to reject Manuel Zelaya in Honduras; at Fernando Lugoin Paraguay; at Dilma Rousseff, in Brazil. Also in the persecution of Rafael Correa in Ecuador and during the imprisonment of the former Brazilian president, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva.

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In Brazil, data began to be known showing that the case against Lula was armed. The Intercept site has published a series of messages between Judge Moro and the prosecutor's office revealing the maneuver.

In Argentina the judge Alejo Ramos Padilla It highlights documents proving that the armed forces have several causes, revealing a thread that, if it is deepened, will allow us to know what has happened in terms of political persecution in Argentina in recent years.

This week, the group Clarín, protagonist of the persecution, went to attack the judge and defend the journalists involved with such vehemence that allows to perceive the degree of concern that exists in the multimedia because the truth is not known.

The trigger was a report from the Provincial Commission of Memory, in charge of the new peace prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

The first mistake they make against the judge and the commission is that journalists can not be tried for their professional work. It is obvious that a journalist can commit a crime in the practice of his profession, as well as a politician, a trade unionist, a doctor, an engineer or an entrepreneur, among many of them. ;other.

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Ramos Padilla on Santoro

The judge was responsible for clarifying the question:The journalistic activity of Daniel Santoro is neither analyzed nor judged. He was not summoned to the trial to testify for his professional work, but for his material and possibly conscious contribution to one or more of the criminal maneuvers that were the subject of an investigation. "

"This investigation does not have to do with how the reporter got the information nor more precisely about the" source "that he used, but with a concrete participation in one or more particular unlawful acts, provided for and punished by the Penal Code. "

Afraid to go to jail

Nor is it true that Judge Ramos Padilla intends to imprison the persons mentioned in this case. On the contrary, he takes care of them especially for the job they perform.

"This implies, in the case, to limit as far as possible the use of exceptional restrictive measures of freedom, because, in these cases, this implies a double assignment; first, that of individual liberty which must be guaranteed to all inhabitants; and, secondly, what implies the collective interest of all citizens, when it comes to restricting the exercise of the rights of fundamental democratic actors, such as the representatives of the people or, as it happens here, a journalist having a long and important professional career ", writes the judge in the resolution where he continues Santoro.

Why the provincial commission acts for the memory

In principle, it should be made clear that the Commission's opinion is not binding: it is one more element available to the judge. The main reason why Ramos Padilla went to the commission is obvious: You must investigate the intelligence services, you can not ask for the same services investigated. Then he only has the commission as an agency with the necessary experience for the analysis of intelligence documents..

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For 20 years, the agency has been assisting justice in providing these records to the causes of humanity, where they constituted essential evidence in the condemnation of genocides. The experts and experts of the commission have been summoned in numerous trials in which evidence has been provided in accordance with the requirements of judges and prosecutors throughout the country. This task has also been conducted in cases such as the AMIA attack, the assassination of Kosteki and Santillan or the facts of La Tablada, all took place in democracy. It is the only organization that has evaluated intelligence documents, while the fund DIPPBA (covering from 1956 to 1998) is the only archive of this specialty declassified to date in Argentina. This is the case, his work has been recognized nationally and internationally.

Majul, Wiñaski and others

Comments from Luis Majul and Nicolás Wiñaski This week and the inclusion of other journalists in the discussion can only explain that in the light of the block defense of the only reporter who is the subject of an investigation and prosecution: Daniel Santoro, the most important investigative journalist of Clarín.

Neither the judge nor the commission open judgment on another journalist: they are mentioned only as professionals having had contact with Marcelo D'Alessio. Contrary to what they say, the fact that they do not even get the subject of an investigation shows that professional work is not judged, nor is the link with them. sources: it is only cases in which there are indications of criminal maneuvers.

Santoro's role in the illegal intelligence network

Santoro's role was not minor, but double. On the one hand, Santoro livelihood and credibility of the extortions executed by D'Alessio. The illegal spy has threatened his victims with public scandal and Santoro has materialized the threat in the pages of Clarín. Judge Ramos Padilla also highlighted the work of the Santoro-D'Alessio duo in the armed with court cases against former Kirchner officials, especially the cause of liquefied natural gas.

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Judge Ramos Padilla said: "There was a coordination between the actions of the illegal association and the behaviors of Daniel Santoro to the point that the actions of this one favored the realization of extravagant and coactive plans that the organization led for more than two years. years".

"The activity of Daniel Santoro has been constituted as a fundamental tool of the organization to carry out its illicit projects, whether of constraint, extortion or" laundering "and / or processing of information in the legal circuit ".

Cases

Ramos Padilla sued Santoro for the crimes of coercion and extortion -the last in an attempt to the detriment of the executive of the PDVSA Gonzalo Brusa Dovat and businessman Mario Cifuentes.

"The strain on PDVSA's former director, Gonzalo Brusa Dovat, is proven. The extortion suffered by the businessman and owner of the OPS company, Mario Cifuentes, was made necessary for Daniel Santoro to participate in these actions. ", Ramos Padilla synthesis in solving the Santoro treatment.

The case of the oil contractor Mario Cifuentesto whom D'Alessio proposed to use his services was serious. The businessman was looking to sell his business but had to solve several previous problems with AFIP. The illegal spy told him that he could solve them in exchange for money. According to his story, Cifuentes did not accept and the extortion in which Santoro participated with his publications and television appearances began. She involved Cifuentes and her company in unrelated business of this type. D'Alessio came to ask him $ 1,200,000 and told his victim that he could sow drugs for his son. The coordination with Santoro was clear. D'Alessio told Cifuentes to watch the Loose Animals program. There, according to the account of the businessman, "Santoro, when he referred to the case of bribery of a Brazilian construction company (OAS), instead of saying that the Brazilian company bore the name of my company, she had specifically stated "the OPS construction company that the ministry repaired it and that it was the payment of the coima for a job at Petrobras and the truth that it had caught my attention, it was obvious that it was a message for me ". This has been repeated. "The same day, he called me back on the phone and told me" last warning ":" Watch the program tonight, if you do not react tomorrow, it's a war, they will you get out at Clarin and that's where it starts, "said DD Alessio Cifuentes, according to his complaint to Judge Ramos Padilla.On 6 April, Santoro published in Clarín a note entitled" The new Lázaro Báez: it owes $ 800 million and is being investigated for money laundering. "On the wheel, he said:" Another K business man having done business with the state "" Previously, they were also taking similar notes of the same content, containing incorrect and malicious data.It was still the Clarín newspaper, "said Cifuentes.

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"All the evidence related to this case analyzed together allows to infer the degree of knowledge of Santoro as to its contribution to the illicit plan implemented against Cifuentes", wrote the judge Ramos Padilla during the pursuit of Santoro for this affair .

The LNG case

Santoro is the subject of investigation in eight cases. In one of them, he even wrote a book. On the computer of D & # 39; Alessio Documentation on the LNG case was found in which it was stated in February 2018 that a book on the subject was being written to "whiten information from intelligence services" . Some time later, Santoro published the book "The Mechanism" on the subject.

In the prosecution, Judge Ramos Padilla stated that, in the LNG case, "it is observed a maneuver that had been planned a year earlier and which was concretized from the publications of Daniel Santoro and the meetings he himself organized."D'Alessio and Santoro were two important pieces for the cause of liquefied natural gas, promoted by Bonadio and Stornelli, and eventually targeted former President Cristina Kirchner.

Under the Macri government, a disturbing number of journalists spent most of their time spreading information about the previous government, often a liar, at the expense of information about the execution of a plan. multi-million dollar resource transfer.

Most of them have executed the media orders in which they work. It was a kind of due obedience. Others have knowingly lied about money or an ideological affinity, but by choice. Some have participated directly in the assembly of false causes. For the time being, there is only evidence of Santoro, but it is certain that other cases will arise in the future.

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Unlike the last dictatorship in which neoliberalism was imposed on blood, fire and missing persons, it was installed and maintained with the persecution of the opposition.. By using the word opposition in the strict sense, since the Peronists who did not oppose Macri's policy have not been persecuted. The balance of the dictatorship was counted in the disappeared; that of this period is counted among malnourished children, among elderly people who have died because they can not consume essential drugs, in the increase of family violence due to poverty, in the return of diseases that have been eradicated for a long time: sadness and pain. This plan of planned misery would have been impossible to implement without the complicity of many journalists who fear today to be judged.