He Government sent to Senate a formal request for promotion of soldiers who were held back by being relatives of repressors involved in crimes against humanity. The decision was signed by the president Javier Milei and the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri.
Those affected in the Navy were the frigate captains Marcelo Barbich, Gustavo Barreto Neuendorf, Juan José Lucena, Eduardo Enrique Pizzagalli, Jorge Emilio Sciurano and James Ronald Whamond.
Also lieutenant colonels Marcelo Ramón Borzone, Julio Balloffet, Edgardo Calvi, Gustavo Carlos Cattaneo, Luis Alberto Cattaneo, Ramón Eduardo Centeno, Mario Alejandro Díaz, Antonio Agustín Duarte, Oscar Antonio Faisal, Marcelo Huergo, Ricardo Horacio Muñoz, Justo Daniel Rojas Alcorta, Guillermo Alejandro Saá, Ricardo Enrique Schulz, Pedro Leonardo Tagni, Jorge Luis Toccalino, Roberto Augusto Vega and Francisco Javier Canevaro.
The note was sent on December 23 of this yearwhere it was detailed “request the necessary Agreement to promote the Senior Military Personnel of the Argentine Navy to the next higher grade on December 31, 2018.”
If the request is approved, those retained will be promoted retroactively by “meeting the conditions required by law.”
Cristina Kirchner’s resolution that stopped the promotions of military relatives of repressors
In 2010, during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the head of Defense, Nilda Garré, dozens of high-ranking military personnel retired.
The decision was made through the Resolution 1581, with the reason that all of them “had some type of blood relationship with repressors or people linked to crimes against humanity” committed during the last dictatorship.
During the presidency of Mauricio Macri, efforts had begun to nullify the measure taken by Garré.
Source: Ambito
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