By Carlos Peláez, journalist. When Astesiano’s chats began to emerge, two sources, one linked to the government and the other to the investigation, told me: “What has been seen is not the worst, what is in those chats is horrible.”
And they were right, because since that distant September 25 when the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati ordered the arrest of Alejandro Astesiano, then head of presidential security, one day in and another we also found out what the broad field of action of “Fibra” was.
However, yesterday (December 20) another novelty emerged that this time means a break for President Luis Lacalle Pou, who will hardly be able to overcome during the remainder of his term.
Because it no longer has to do with his government actions, but with an act that shows him as an unscrupulous immoral. And from that he does not turn.
Lacalle used the State structure to spy on his ex-wife Lorena Ponce De León.
If he is capable of this action on the mother of his children, what would he not do against those he considers enemies.
Worse. The newspaper El Observador censored its journalists, preventing them from publishing the news. But they responded in an unexpected way for the Argentine owners of the newspaper and for the government itself: they disseminated the information through their networks. Historic moment for journalism.
The newspaper El País was not informed and has not said anything about the president’s action.
The journalist Leonardo Haberkorn said that “he was aware that the government had exerted maximum pressure to prevent the spread of the news.”
In barely 24 hours the image that the president had carefully and professionally built of himself, went down the sewer of the State.
Today, December 21, we know two things: 1) Lacalle did not hesitate to spy on his ex-wife and for this he used the state structure 2) The government exercises censorship over the media.
How is this going? Nobody can predict it. But by now we know that even some of the president’s most loyal men are outraged.
It is clear that it is one thing to be governed by someone with whom you disagree and quite another to discover that he is immoral.
The image of “nice and close kid” imploded yesterday.
And there is no one to accuse but himself.
