A key official of the Ministry of Defense He presented his resignation from his position in the last few hours. It is about Claudio Pasqualini, virtual vice minister of the portfolio who leads Luis Petri. The retired Lieutenant General alleged personal reasons.
Pasqualini took office in January, having just assumed the management of Petri at the head of the ministry. There he performed functions such as Secretary of Strategy and Military Affairs (SEAM)a position that, in practice, represents a parallel to that of a vice minister, ranking that does not formally exist within the official organizational chart.
He graduated from the Infantry force in 1982 and joined the “Malvinas promotion”, What is called those who completed their training the year of the war with the United Kingdom. During the last dictatorship he did not fight or take action, although he always maintained a position denialist regarding crimes against humanity.
Pasqualini was father-in-law of Athos Renés, a soldier sentenced to life for Margarita Belén massacre, when a group of political prisoners was shot in December 1976. Renés died in prison last October. The wife of the now former Defense official used to share messages on social networks that portrayed the repressors as political prisoners.
During the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner He obtained his promotion to brigadier general. He was also military attaché in Mexico. The retired lieutenant general was then appointed Army chief in 2018during the administration of Oscar Aguad in the ministry, in the presidency of Mauricio Macri.
Pasqualini has a bachelor’s degree in Strategy and Organization, systems analyst and with a diploma in National Defense. In 2020, with the administration of former president Alberto Fernández, he retired.. From that moment on, he held the presidency of the Security and Defense Observatory of the University of the Center for Macroeconomic Studies of Argentina (UCEMA).
Luis Petri celebrated the arrival of the first F-16
The departure of Pasqualini It occurred while Defense confirmed the arrival of the first F-16 aircraft acquired in Denmark. The aircraft will be used for instruction and training.
The fighter plane is already in the country, after arriving today aboard a Hercules C-130 aircraft of the Argentine Air Force. The arrival of the aircraft was confirmed by the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, through his account on the social network X.
“WE HAVE THE FIRST F-16 IN ARGENTINA! Today, the C-130 of the @FuerzaAereaArg landed in El Palomar with the fuselage on board, and continued towards Tandil to begin assembly. Great news for our defense and a source of pride for all Argentines,” Petri published.
The two-seater F-16B MLU Block 10 is not one of the 24 F-16 aircraft acquired for the VI Air Brigade of the Argentine Air Force (FAA), based in Tandil, since After its assembly by the technicians of the Argentine Air Force and the Royal Danish Air Force, it will be used for the training of specialist personnel. and mechanics for the training of combat aviators.
Source: Ambito
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