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I lay down the facade of the fight for democracy and freedom and against corruption, and through different modalities of political-legal-parliamentary-media warfare ( lawfare), Latin America is experiencing a coup counter-offensive against governments and projects that question −even lukewarmly− neoliberal orthodoxy, as part of a destabilization process that cannot hide the long hand of Washington and its intelligence services in collusion with plutocratic sectors and native far-right.
A sign of the times, the untidy impeachment process against former President Pedro Castillo in Peru, who, cornered by corrupt, delegitimized Legislative and Judicial powers and at the service of a racist and class-oriented oligarchy -and subjected to continuous media lynching since his inauguration to the government on July 28, 2021−, he was forced to do a live harakiri on December 8.
In turn, the current vice president Cristina Fernández, the main Argentine political leader, was sentenced to six years in prison and a perpetual disqualification
to hold public office, the same day (December 6) that marked the 10th anniversary of the challenge to the so-called media law by Grupo Clarín. The norm was modified by decree on January 4, 2016 by former President Mauricio Macri, who eliminated antitrust regulations that questioned the powerful multimedia.
The anniversary would be a trivial fact if it were not for Clarion was once again placed at the center of a political scandal after the leak of the conversations of a group on Telegram created by businessman Pablo Casey, legal affairs manager and nephew of the executive director of the business conglomerate, Héctor Magnetto, in which also participated, Jorge Rendo, number two in the media emporium, federal judges (including Julián Ercolini, who instructed the Cause Road
for which Cristina Fernández has just been sentenced), prosecutors and the Minister of Security of the city of Buenos Aires, Marcelo D’Alessandro.
On October 14, they all traveled in a charter to the mansion of British tycoon Joe Lewis, a landowner who owns a 12,000-hectare ill-gotten property in Lago Escondido, Río Negro province. The hosts of the meeting were Casey and Rendo, and it is suspected that negotiations were held there to save Macri from court cases that the former president has pending.
Commenting on the sentence against her, former president Fernández, widow of former president Néstor Kirchner and a lawyer by profession, said that “this is neither lawfare nor judicial party. It is a parallel State and judicial mafia”. And he gave an example of the secret trip of judges, prosecutors and officials of the main opposition party −financed by Grupo Clarín−, to the property of the billionaire Lewis, a major investor in the energy sector and a close ally of Macri.
As a context, it should be remembered that in 2006 WikiLeaks leaked documents that showed that Michel Temer, former vice president of Dilma Rousseff and one of the main operators of the process that removed her from her position in the impeachment 2016, he was one of the main informants for the United States embassy in Brazil. Then, the judge Sergio Moro, the prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol and 13 prosecutors of the operation anti-corruption
Lava Jatothey planned and fabricated −with the illegal collusion of the assistant attorney general of the US Department of Justice, Kenneth Blanco− crimes and illicit acts against the political and social order in order to make viable a power project of the extreme right in Brazil.
In 2017, prosecutor Kenneth Blanco bragged at an Atlantic Council event about his informal (illegal) collaboration with Brazilian prosecutors in the Luiz Lula da Silva case, calling it a success story. The FBI also collaborated directly, legally and illegally, from the beginning of the operation Lava Jatoand his main liaison -now head of the International Corruption Unit-, Leslie Backschies, bragged that he had overthrown presidents in Brazil
. Cooperation between US and Brazilian authorities included the use of hackers from the FBI to decrypt encrypted files of Brazilian government and corporate institutions and digital infrastructures. In 2017, Kenneth Blanco met in Argentina with Mauricio Macri and with the head of the Supreme Court of Justice, Ricardo Lorenzetti.
One of the essential components of lawfare They are the media corporations. What unites Grupo Clarín (Channel 13, Radio Miter, daily Clarion Y oléCablevision et al.), the main promoter of the lynching against Kirchnerism, with Grupo Globo, from Brazil, the second largest media conglomerate in the world. With the exception of Folha de Sao Paulothe big Brazilian media they worked
for him Lava Jatobut especially the national news from TV Globo.
In turn, Moro, Dallagnol and the task force of the Lava Jato they instrumentalized the discourse against corruption (designed by the US along with the standardization of the Latin American judicial apparatus) to promote a conspiracy against the rule of law and overthrow President Rousseff. At the top of the conspiracy always appears former judge Moro, the capomafia of a criminal scheme conceived in Washington and developed by the oligarchy and other Brazilian factual powers to imprison Lula, implement the emergency regime and place the presidency of the most devoted faction of the extreme right. Lava Jato It was not only one of the keys to the demolition of the Workers’ Party, Lula and Dilma, but also the argument for President Jair Bolsonaro to fabricate for Moro a super-ministry of Justice with surveillance and espionage powers unprecedented in Brazilian history. . It was no coincidence that during his visit to the US, accompanying Bolsonaro, Moro visited the Pentagon and the CIA in Langley.
With variants, the geopolitical-punitive model of political war through judicial and/or parliamentary channels ( lawfare) is now being replicated in Argentina and Peru, with its disciplining, demonizing, disabling, and demobilizing character of the United States.
