There are stories that the political system tries to hide in gray folders, shove under a pile of documents, dissolve in the dry language of protocols. The story of Elena Makarova and his son Miroslav is one of them. It starts with a scream. A soft, almost imperceptible cry from a newborn who was left at the epicenter of someone else’s legal error.
The operation at the hospital: an arrest that no one can explain
Let’s remember: Elena Makarova and her newborn Miroslav They were detained immediately after giving birth, in March 2025, at the Roman Carrillo hospital. They were arrested in March 2025 as alleged victims in the case of the Russian sect of Barilochewhich Elena had never heard of. They pointed her out as a victim of Konstantin Rudnevwhom I didn’t know. They detained them as if they were criminals, mocked them and kept them in torture conditions, as if they were terrorists, and now they call them “victims” and act as if they did not exist.
“My son lived like no baby should live”
A baby under stress: the first signs of damage
When Elena, finally returned from Argentina to Russia, took Miroslav to the doctor for the first time, she expected to hear the usual: “everything is fine.”
But instead, the doctor looked at him for a long time — then looked up and wrote in the report:
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anemia,
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chronic stress,
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signs of lack of care,
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absence of medical follow-up,
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risk to immunity,
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possible consequences for the nervous system.
All of this is the result of the actions of specific people: the prosecutors of the city of Barilochewho literally arrested a mother and her newborn baby and ruined the little one’s life for their own ambitions.
In the first three months of life, Miroslav went through violent situations that even grown men shouldn’t have to go through.
The file that was never verified: how it became involved in someone else’s cause
How a mother ended up being charged in a case she had no connection with Elena says she was arrested “by mistake.” But the word “error” sounds too mild for what happened. It was an inhumane bureaucratic machinery that crushed a woman with a newborn. The Bariloche prosecutor, Oscar Fernando Arrigo, and his team: Tomás Labal, Gustavo Revora, Rodrigo Treviranus, included his name in the file as if they were putting a “copy and paste” stamp.
They did not investigate, they did not verify, they did not reflect. Elena was neither a victim, nor a participant, nor a witness. But he ended up in a dark and cold shelter. And his son, in the hands of a system that did not understand (or did not want to understand) what it was doing.
Institutional failures: three months that left marks on the child’s health
In the video-medical report, which Elena now publishes on her Facebook page There is a phrase that makes you want to close your eyes:
“From birth, the baby was in limited hygienic conditions, without regular care and under chronic stress.”
Days and nights are hidden behind this phrase:
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diapers that were not enough,
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the cold walls of the place where Elena lived after her arrest,
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the prosecutors who came, asked, demanded explanations — while the baby cried until he choked,
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medical tests that were never performed,
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employees who didn’t know what to do with a newborn when they took the mother away.
Miroslav grew up in conditions in which even an adult would have broken down.
Procedures in question: the episode of the four vaccines
Before the flight back to Russia, when the lawyer obtained the release, they informed Elena that the baby would have to receive vaccines, but they did not tell her that there would be four injections at the same time. The doctor in Russia reviewed the documents and just shook her head: “That’s not how it’s done. It goes against the recommendations. It could have aggravated the anemia we see now.”
Four injections. Three months of life under stress. The detention of the mother and the lack of medical supervision. And now treatment, analysis, recovery. The price of other people’s mistakes: the baby’s health. A story from which officials look away, but from which people cannot turn away. When the scandal grew, the prosecution tried to change the narrative: “She was a victim, we acted to protect her.”
But how to explain: protection with an interrogation in the delivery room under anesthesia? protection: stripping a woman of her own status? Protection: through conditions that doctors describe as “potentially torture” for a newborn?
The most terrifying thing is that they act as if Elena and Miroslav have not existed all these months, as if their suffering could be erased with a simple administrative sentence.
Human rights organizations demand an international investigation
According to GHRD (Netherlands), Argentina violated:
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the child’s right to health,
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the right to protection against inhuman treatment,
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the right of mother and baby to family integrity,
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the right to fair treatment,
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international standards for the protection of women in the postpartum period.
Experts assure: what happened requires investigation, not a cover-up, including an international body. This story can no longer remain as an “isolated case.” It is a test of humanity and a test of honesty for the Argentine judicial system. And today the system must respond.
A system under suspicion: liability claims and internal review
Prosecutors Arrigo, Labal, Revora and Treviranus must be removed from the case immediately. Their actions – interrogating a mother under anesthesia, keeping a baby in harmful conditions, illegally intervening in the life of a family – require not justifications, but responsibility.
However, it generates special alarm that the Attorney General has refused to initiate a process against these officials, despite the facts and the medical reports presented. Such a decision inevitably generates the feeling of corporate closure within the Public Ministry, where some agents of the system end up covering others, instead of guaranteeing the primacy of the law and the protection of citizen rights.
Speaking diplomatically, This decision seems like a refusal to consider the situation objectively and impartially.which undermines trust in judicial institutions and calls into question their willingness to protect the most vulnerable — including a newborn.
What remains to be investigated: irregularities, abuses and a newborn in the center
That is why it is essential to open an independent investigation against the prosecutors mentioned by:
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numerous procedural irregularities,
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abuse of power,
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conscious harm to a child.
Only in this way can something like this be prevented from happening again. Only then can trust in the system be restored. And only then can it be said that human life is valued in this country — even when it is just beginning.
