The national deputy and leader of La Cámpora Maximo Kirchner He underwent surgery this Friday in The Silverthe same city where he was born. According to the medical report issued by the hospital, the intervention was for a bilateral parotid cystadenomaa benign tumor located in the parotid glands—the salivary glands located on both sides of the face, in front of and below the ears. The surgery was scheduled and the patient was hospitalized for check-ups and follow-up with good progress, as signed by the director of the establishment, the Dr. Roberto D. Martínez.
Minutes before entering the operating room, Kirchner published a message on his Instagram account in which he alluded to the intervention in a relaxed tone. He explained that he had been postponing it for different reasons and that “Monday always arrives, in this case it arrived on Friday.” He also said that one of the surgeons is a Estudiantes fan and promised him that on Sunday he could watch the game from his home. “He is confident that they will beat us,” he wrote.
The political message
But the post had a clear political axis. Kirchner revealed that her mother, the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerwanted to accompany him and that he would have liked to have her present. However, he asked him not to arrange any exit permits. The reasons, she said, are principled: “I don’t want her to ask anything of those who, abusing the power they hold, have locked her up despite her innocence.”
Along these lines, the deputy went further and fully questioned the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches – which he deliberately wrote in lower case – which he accused of functioning as “mere instruments at the service of economic power.” He also pointed out what he considers a flagrant inequality: while his mother is denied outings and restrictions are imposed, more than half of those convicted of crimes against humanity or drug trafficking do obtain permits from the same judiciary. “They do not grant her permits or authorize departures as this same judiciary does with more than half of those convicted of crimes against humanity or drug trafficking. They reserve persecution and restrictions for her,” he wrote.
Kirchner also extended the argument beyond his family: he maintained that millions of Argentines do not deserve “this overwhelming and unjust reality,” which he defined as a foreseeable consequence of the government’s policies and those who, according to him, helped establish them as common sense.
The post closed with a double meaning phrase that did not go unnoticed: “After so many press operations…”
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