In December of last year, NOTICIAS anticipated that Cristina Caamanothe comptroller of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) he had no plans to continue in his position. On the one hand, she was already tired of being in a precarious situation because her petition continued to sleep in a drawer in the Senate of the Nation because Cristina Kirchner did not allow him to be treated on the premises. On the other hand, given this situation, President Alberto Fernández had already promised that place to Agustin “El Chivo” Rossi to be able to put someone who passes the filter of CFK. What happened? Why was the change delayed?
Caamaño had a stroke of luck in December: he denounced in court that an intelligence agent, by chance, had found a video of a meeting that took place in the Buenos Aires offices of the Bank province. The case became known as Gestapo PRO. That magical discovery gave six more months of life to the former prosecutor and president of Legitimate Justice, who warned at the end of the year toast that her days at the head of the AFI were numbered. With a glass of champagne in hand, she said: “An intervention cannot be eternal.” What was she referring to? That the intervention had a mission. It was to “reorder” the organization, which came from a highly questioned management under the command of Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani. Apparently, by the end of the year, size I felt that this work was already done and there was no need to continue with the AFI intervened. But like, politics does not have a linear logic, and for the protagonists it is very difficult to explain why Caamaño’s statement spent two years in the Senate without being approved. Contrary to what is supposed size I was not one hundred percent aligned with Cristina. There could be some point of agreement on legal issues, but size arrived at that place from the hand of Alberto and was referenced santiago cafiero. In the daily dynamics, for example, the former comptroller had a strong confrontation with the officials who respond to Maximo Kirchner.
At this time, the former prosecutor is analyzing whether or not to accept the presidential offer to replace Sergio Uribarriconvicted of corruption by the Justice of Entre Rios, at the Argentine embassy in Israel. If he accepts, the unknown will be to see if this time Cristina Kirchner, He will put his statement to the Senate for consideration.
Arrival
rossi He arrives at the AFI with this swell, but with an advantage in his favor: he will not be an auditor, but a director, that is, “Mr. 5”, as his position is known in the jargon of spies. He will be appointed in committee until he leaves the bill for him in the Senate. In this case, what will Cristina do with Rossi’s statement? If she takes it out quickly, it will be clear that there were problems with Caamano, and if he delays it, he will magnify the conflict with the Santa Fe native, who had already suffered mistreatment in the legislative elections last year when CFK chose Marcelo Lewandowski as the ruling party’s candidate for the Senate, instead of supporting him.
rossi has had a rocky relationship with Albert and Christina. Last year, support for Lewandowski took him by surprise and with his candidacy launched. There he had a second snub, this time, by the President, who said on television that all candidates who are civil servants were going to have to leave their positions for the campaign. rossi he found out while he was on another TV show and had to quit.
This return of the official has some troubles and challenges. In principle, he only has one year of management left and getting in tune with the area will take time. As a minister he had a passage through the Ministry of Defencewhich has the Intelligence areas of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Among the challenges it will have is managing an organization famous for being divided up by different political forces. Upon the return of democracy, the SIDE it had a remnant of military infiltrators who mixed with the radicals who came to power. With the arrival of Menemism, the Peronists who lived with the radicals who remained joined. With De la Rua another layer of radicals was added, and with Kirchnerism a mass of agents coordinated by the then boss was consolidated Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso. In the last year of Christina as President, 2015, Oscar Parrilli purged the AFI of the historical ones and put its own militant agents. With the arrival of the macrismo there was another replacement. And the return of Kirchnerism to power once again added another political layer to the agency. Today there are historians mixed with officials who respond to Grilli, others to Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro, to the deputy Rodolfo Tailhade, who had a brief stint at the AFI in 2015, and also those who arrived with size. Now Rossi’s agents will join. Managing a body that answers to so many bosses is an art that can only be experienced in politics.
An unknown that arises from the arrival of rossi it is the arrival of trusted soldiers who worked under his orders in the Ministry of Defense. The military stopped being in the AFI in 1983 and their return will be a novelty, because they have a different training, just like the police officers. During the macrismo, the AFI was taken over by retired policemen and that explains part of the failure of Arribas and Majdalani. The training of an intelligence agent is different from that of a police officer and much more than that of a military officer.
The other challenge rossi will be collaboration in drug trafficking investigations. Today Argentina has almost no collaboration from foreign agencies. The drug that reaches Europe they prefer to seize it there instead of notifying our country. Regaining that trust will take work. Perhaps the year and a half that lies ahead is not enough.
