Cristina Kirchner likes to write long letters on her social networks, explosive like those of the now forgotten Unabomber. The letters range from attacks on her internal rival Axel Kicillof to blows against the Government’s economic policy and the eccentricities of Javier Milei, just as in other times the recipient of her written fury was Alberto Fernández, the president whom she herself had appointed and whom she later took charge of mistreating in public. However, there is a topic that is forbidden to the San José 1111 prisoner: she cannot speak, in a minimally convincing way, about the corruption of the libertarian government.
First there was the $Libra case, about which the former president indulged in some ironies because at that time, it is true, she was still free. But further here, already in the middle of the campaign, the new affairs of Karina Milei’s Coimagate and the drug financing of José Luis Espert, former head of the list of the official ticket in the Province, occurred. And everything CFK said, or everything he tried to say, inevitably fell on deaf ears. For a simple reason: she herself, no matter how much she danced on her prison balcony, had just been condemned in all instances – Supreme Court included – for her own corruption scandal, or one of them, the National Roads scandal. Because the truth is that there are many, starting with the Cuadernos Cause, which these days has it as the protagonist in the oral trial that takes place once a week, on Thursdays. Or like the Hotesur-Los Sauces file in which she is accused of money laundering with her luxury hotels in Patagonia, a case whose trial was postponed until next year.
In other words, the former president lacks the moral authority to point out Milei for her own scandals, and this was evidenced in a campaign in which Peronism, despite what the polls said, failed to make the most of the allegations of corruption such as the 3 percent bribes. The thing is, paraphrasing Milei himself, that number seems laughable next to the accusations that Cristina accumulated at the end of her “earned decade” in power.
Milei adds judicial concerns as his government progresses, it is true. But CFK today directly uses an anklet. There is no possible comparison.
