• Argentina: The transfer of the presidential baton in Argentina: monarchical airs, vaudeville scenes and witchcraft rites
  • Justice .... And Alberto Nisman sat on the bench Cristina Kirchner

The Argentine Justice continued with its accelerated adaptation to the new political times and ordered the cessation of the preventive prison that weighed on Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in a key cause. The two-time head of state faces 10 prosecutions and four other requests for pretrial detention, although all are abstract in the facts, since her position is protected by privileges.

However, today's decision has a lot of symbolism. It was taken by the federal court that judges Fernández de Kirchner by signing an agreement with Iran that prosecutor Alberto Nisman denounced in 2014 as the guarantee of "impunity" for those accused of the attack on the Jewish mutual AMIA, which in 1994 It cost the lives of 85 people. Nisman appeared dead in his apartment in January 2015, the same day he had to appear before Parliament to give details of his accusation. The Argentine justice considers that it was a murder.

According to the judges, "there are no elements that allow us to think of a possible obstruction or escape by the vice president." In addition, he said, two years have passed since the preventive detention was issued, and that is the stipulated period for a detention without conviction.

The new Argentine president, the Peronist Alberto Fernández, made it clear that the preventive prisons of various officials of the ruling Kirchner between 2003 and 2015 are "arbitrary," and said multiple times to believe in the absolute innocence of his vice president. In recent weeks, and based on the new criteria imposed on preventive prisons in the new Criminal Procedure Code, "several release of former Kirchner officials and businessmen investigated in different corruption files were ordered," said Clarin.

Preventive detention was used abusively during the government of Mauricio Macri, which ended on December 10, not a few experts say. In turn, the wave of releases released during these weeks is not alien to the positioning of justice for the new political time, consider local analysts.

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