Diego Escuder was accused by the former vice chancellor of having participated in the meeting along with Francisco Bustillo, Luis Alberto Heber and Guillermo Maciel.
The brand new interim chancellor Diego Escuder was one of the leaders who was present at the meeting in which, according to the former vice chancellor Carolina Ache, It was agreed not to mention messages from WhatsApp in the interrogation for the investigation about the passport given to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marset.
In the midst of the scandalous episode that led to the resignation of Francisco Bustillo to the Chancery, Ache accused the outgoing leader of asking “that Guillermo be sent to the front” Maciel”, in reference to the leader of the Ministry of Interior. He even said that he told her to “lose your cell phone.”
According to the former vice chancellor, from the meeting at the Prado House The new leader participated, in addition to Bustillo, Maciel, the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, and the presidential advisor, Roberto Lafluf. “Everyone knew about those messages,” he questioned.
Thus, in the midst of a crisis that the president Luis Lacalle Pou monitor from USA, Another of the leaders associated with the scandal was appointed on an interim basis. In any case, it is expected that, upon his return, the president will define another name for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, in that sense, the one who took the lead is Carlos Enciso, ambassador of Uruguay in Argentina.
From the United States, Lacalle Pou spoke of “strong institutions”
Thousands of kilometers away Uruguay, President Luis Lacalle Pou He tried to take charge of managing the crisis, once the scandal broke out. Also, this morning, on the forum Responsible Investment of the Alliance of the Americas, He highlighted the country for “its strong institutions” and for being “one of the strongest democracies in the world”, although without specifically referring to what happened with the passport of marset nor to the situation with the Chancellery.
At the same time, he referred to the interest of USA for the economic integration of the continent, exemplified in “the initiative of the president “Joe Biden” to organize the first summit of the Alliance for the Economic Prosperity of the Americas (APEP).
In that framework, Lacalle Pou noted: “Our countries make an attempt to open up to the world, sometimes with good results and sometimes they are ‘baby steps’, but when the president of USA set an agenda, move the rest.”
Source: Ambito
