Earlier, Villarruel had maintained earlier that she would not have authorized the trip Rooster to Venezuela. “What is happening is a sadly obvious consequence. But since I am not from the security area, I do not have an opinion on the sanctions or actions that should be taken,” she stated through a post in X that she later deleted. The Minister considered that she deleted the tweet because “the repercussion was not what was expected.” .
Bullrich responded forcefully by remarking that “Argentines no longer tolerate cowardice or political opportunism” and noted that he spoke with “total ignorance of administrative channels and mechanisms“. In this regard, he clarified: “Travel authorization is granted through the Personnel Directorate. That is why I request that before issuing statements, next time report“he noted.
Bullrich also demanded that Villarruel freeze the Senate’s allowances
In the same post from I ask you to take care of stopping the crazy and imminent salary increase in the Senate of the Nation. Citizens are making a heroic effort to overcome the inherited crisis and does not deserve to finance allowances of 9.5 million for any legislator,” he concluded.
As of January 1, the senators’ allowances will once again be “hooked” to the joint allowances of Congressional employees. In this way, if the legislators do not reverse this decision in the chamber, in the first month of the year they will collect 9.5 million pesos.
In the last session, where the expulsion of Edgardo Kueider of the body, Villarruel had proposed including the freezing of diets on the agenda, a point that was ultimately not voted on.
“Understanding the immense effort that the population is making economically, I believe that we must live up to it and that is why the senators’ diets must be frozen,” he said.
The kidnapping of Nahuel Gallo in Venezuela
The crossing between the ruling party’s leaders occurred in the midst of the conflict with Venezuela for the kidnapping of Nahuel Gallo in a maximum security prison in Caracas aroused all kinds of suspicions in the Government.
The gendarme was detained on December 4 at the border of Venezuela. He traveled to meet his partner and son who have been in the country for nine months. As confirmed by his entourage, the cash was on vacation and He had traveled from his home in Luján de Cuyo, Mendozawith the intention of spend December with his family and return to the country to return to service. When he tried to enter Venezuelan territory by land from Colombia, he was kidnapped and remains incommunicado.
This Tuesday Bullrich confirmed that the national government will take the measures “they have to take” so that Nahuel Gallo can “return home.” The head of Security assured that Gallo “He is a gendarme kidnapped” by “an illegal president”, referring to Madurowho on July 28 proclaimed himself winner of the elections over his rival, Edmundo González Urrutia.
For his part, Diosdado Cabello, Minister of the Interior and Justice of Venezuela and Maduro’s right-hand man, justified that Gallo was in Venezuela to fulfill “a mission” and crossed the Argentine official. “The fascist Patricia Bullrich (said) ‘it will be a cause of war’. Declare war on England because they stole the Malvinas “Isn’t that a cause of war?”
Source: Ambito
