the last weeks of Mayra Mendoza were plagued by accusations of diversion of funds to local work cooperatives contracted by the municipality of Quilmes that would be from the officials of his administration. The latest development in the case was that Judge Ariel Lijo requested reports from the National Ministry of Social Development, which manages the funds allocated to cooperatives; to the National Institute of Associations and Social Economy (INAES), to the AFIP, Yet the General Inspection of Justice (IGJ). All with the purpose of understanding what the network of cooperatives that work in Quilmes is like.
What was known is that the mayor, the only one with that position in The Campora, came out to respond to these accusations with a ten-minute video in which she explains that she has no ties to those cooperatives and that she even denounced herself. But what was a secret is that she also asked for explanations from the official involved in the complaint that originated from an investigation of the portal Dissent, and he replied that he had no relationship with the cooperatives that awarded him. The target is the former Undersecretary of Habitat of the municipality, Sebastián Raspa, who resigned when the case arose. In the journalistic investigation it is argued that Raspa had created companies in Miami, supposedly funded with the money diverted from the cooperatives, but he would have sworn to the mayor that those companies were not his. He also disassociated himself from the cooperatives that awarded him. As he explained, his name appears in the public bidding system Buy as president of the La Estrella Limited Work Cooperativebut apparently it would have been a mistake. scrape sent a document letter to the Compra system to request the rectification of the information, which has already been changed in the system. That is to say that today, the official no longer appears as president.
The unknown is around Martin Bordalejoa friend of Raspa who was a municipal employee in Quilmes and is responsible for the cooperative La Estrella Limitada and is also the one who created the companies in the United States, Raspa Investments and Borda Investments.
intrigues
Mayra Mendoza, in his video-response, points against the media and also against “the old politics”. It happens that, in addition to looking with resentment at the opposition and the media, she is also aware of “friendly fire”, especially those officials who may have some link with Hannibal Fernandezthe current Minister of Security who was mayor of Quilmes in the early ’90s. Aníbal Fernández always had an interest in the local politics of Quilmes. The data that generated distrust was that the contracting office, on which the Compra portal depends – where Raspa’s name was placed in a cooperative – was in charge of an official who answered to Aníbal.
Mayor Mendoza showed in her video images of journalists such as Baby Etchecopar or Viviana Canosa, who this week mentioned her in their programs. The first was part of a controversy with fellow journalist Cristina Pérez, who did not want to pass up a comment by Etchecopar in which she insinuated that Mayra Mendoza and the head of PAMI, Luana Volnovichthey had an affair using the euphemism of “close friends”.
Canosa, in his program, said that Mayra Mendoza was “charged with escaping money from the Quilmeño to Miami”. Cynthia Fernandezin the program Fabian Domanslipped that she had been the girlfriend of Maximo Kirchner. All this information reaches Mendoza and fuels his rejection of the media.
Victimization
Mendoza is the most important test balloon in The Campora and above all of Cristina Kirchner. They talk quite frequently and the vice president is her adviser, in addition to asking her about the day-to-day life of the municipality. Quilmes has 700 thousand inhabitantsso it is also an electoral weight district.
To intendant, as she made clear in her video, she is bothered by the different standard that is applied when criticizing her. She compares herself with other mayors and complains that none of them suffer complaints about her like she does, that she feels “discriminated against” because of her double status as a woman and a camper leader. The other barons of the suburbs who are not part of the ultra K grouping are not told the ribs of their management or they install a television mobile when there is a murder in their district, he argues. Poor Maya.
