Cristina Kirchner: bribes and applause

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 24/06/2025

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner governed by committing crimes, deceiving, and manipulating; and after her case was reviewed by 13 judges and seven prosecutors for nearly 18 years, three Supreme Court justices finally sentenced her to six years in prison and a life ban for corruption.

Now, very proud, with a wide smile, she plays the victim.

"La Campora," a brigade of outlaws led by Máximo, a bellicose congressman and son of the former president, responded to the court ruling by insulting judges, blocking highways, threatening opponents, and destroying equipment belonging to the state television channel.

The Justicialist Party leader, under house arrest and wearing an electronic ankle bracelet, faces several criminal cases, all of them extremely serious. The most illustrative was filed by Oscar Centeno, a driver for the Ministry of Planning, responsible for collecting bags of bribes from businessmen's offices or homes for winning public works contracts.

The meticulous driver wrote down names, dates, and recipients of the dirty money in a small notebook. These facts have been proven by prosecutors and judges in a case involving 74 defendants, 600 witnesses, and in which several construction leaders have admitted to paying bribes to obtain state contracts.

It is surprising, however, that thousands of euphoric Justicialist supporters took to the streets to insult the judges and cheer their leader, who greeted them exultantly from the balcony of her apartment in Buenos Aires.

But the incomprehensible applause for bribery also comes from abroad, from the extremist bloc of 21st Century Socialism, from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, and Honduras, or from leeches like Evo Morales, currently hiding in Cochabamba to avoid jail for statutory rape.

However, the cynicism of President Luis Arce is astonishing. He did not hesitate to tweet his support and solidarity with the obvious use of justice as a tool to undermine leftist forces and the popular nationalist camp.

For his part, Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed his "unwavering support" for the former Argentine president, stating that she was "a victim of political prosecution," while Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez described the conviction as a "clear act of revenge and a threat to the region's progressive leaders."

Evo Morales, for his part, maintained that it was a "judicial coup," adding that "we are experiencing a re-emergence of Plan Condor, no longer with the military, but with judges subservient to the oligarchies."

Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa issued another powerful message: "Strength, Cristina! Strength, Argentina! Enough with the lawfare! Defeat us - if you can - at the polls."

And the abominable Nicaraguan dictator, Daniel Ortega, phrased a tacky message saying: "Cristina, comrade: to you, with admiration, respect and affection, in these difficult times, when your courage and that of your people show themselves once again defiant and capable of transcending misery, and of growing, even more, in the historical dimension, which has made and makes you great, our solidarity in all the struggles and in him always Beyond, unyielding, lucid, of formidable and profound spirituality."

No less significant was the support of former Mexican President López Obrador and his replacement, Claudia Scheinbaum, who announced that she was working on a joint statement with the governments of Colombia, Chile, and Brazil, ignoring the fact that they cannot intervene in matters within the internal jurisdiction of another country because they would violate a rule of international law, enshrined in the Vienna Convention, the OAS Charter, and the United Nations.

The message these radical sectors convey is that if you're part of the leftist bloc, you have a license to commit crimes, kill, imprison, or torture because, if you do, you'll be supported and protected.

As the lyrics of the tango "Cambalache" say, "the world was and will be a mess, I know it. In 510, and in 2000 too. There have always been thieves, Machiavellis, and swindlers. Happy people and bitter people, brave people and duplicitous people."

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