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Argentine Justices call for an end to impunity and to disputes among government branches
Argentina's Supreme Court opened on Tuesday a new term with the head Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti delivering a very much awaited speech calling for 'an end to impunity' and a strong reply to harsh comments by President Cristina Fernandez on Sunday, renewing her administration’s criticism against the judicial system. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOh, dear, TMBOA is going to be pissed when somebody explains what the words 'justice', 'fears' and 'working together' mean as they are alien to her.
Mar 04th, 2015 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0This guy might well be the next “suicide” victim.
Good luck with that mate.
Mar 04th, 2015 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well,
Mar 04th, 2015 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0she still has a few months to go,
wonder how much more will come out, and what mess she will leave the country in.
Here's a few clues for argies. NO-ONE is immune. EVERYONE must be made to accept responsibility for their actions. Every member of the judiciary must be beyond reproach. The slightest doubt must mean removal from office and a minimum 20 years imprisonment. Real imprisonment where 20 years means 20 years. Sentences for government 'officials' should be doubled. 40 years. Die in prison. Have every single 'asset' seized. If necessary, employ torture to locate the assets. And give them back from where they were stolen.
Mar 04th, 2015 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Can somebody inform this President”, wot the fu*k is going on.
Mar 04th, 2015 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She is only finishing her second term in charge of running the country, not fair to expect HER to know anything about anything.
Much less take any responsibility for anything, ohhh no.
Much less take any responsibility for anything
Mar 04th, 2015 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well,
we presume she gets dressed by herself, and showers , eats ,
is this not responsibility,
or she she lying again....lol
What an utterly bizarre concept that a president can act with impunity
Mar 04th, 2015 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and be ABOVE the law. Thats basically a Tin pot dictatorship.
“”“What an utterly bizarre concept that a president can act with impunity
Mar 05th, 2015 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0and be ABOVE the law. Thats basically a Tin pot dictatorship.”“”
...or the UK and Tony Blair....
.. the US and *pick your own Bush*....
but, yes, CFK does take it to hilarious degrees.
She wont beat Blair though until she leaves government, earns 20 million a year doing speeches and gets “elected” by her peers to be the “Peace Ambassador” for British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic.
(At which point she will be only part-way to the double-dealing hypocrisy of Blair....because at least she hasnt started a war... she'd just like to....)
..but, yeah, I get your point...
@8
Mar 05th, 2015 - 03:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good Call.
I expect she has a poster of Blair on her bedroom wall, next to some teen 'boy-band' and a cute picture of some kittens.
Argentine justice. The Argentine Veterans, only after 33 years have just been told to take their case of torture by their officers to the ( IACHR ). I wonder how many will actually get justice, most will have died by the time this gets to court. Is this the Argentinian justice that we all love?
Mar 05th, 2015 - 07:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0IT'S NOT A JUDGED THING.
Mar 05th, 2015 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree on lorenzetti when he talks about working to put an end to impunity, however in the last months, the behaviour of the institution has been too contradictory.
While it is true that in 1999, the court declared that the guilties of the attack against the embassy from israel in 1992 were members from hezbolla, however lorenzetti forgat saying that in 2006 the court declared that the investigation about that attack had to continue, then it's not a judged thing, as he had said when he opened a new term of the supreme court.
The same court which declared that the broadcast law is constitutional, supported the new injuction got by the clarin group, which let it not to comply with the adequation. After the court determined that the law was constitutional, the clarin group started making reports that involved lorenzetti in corruption cases during the decade of the nineties, in a clear signal of revenge, because of the decision taken by the court, perhaps that's the reason why the institution decided to give a help to the biggest media corporation from argentina.
On the other hand, before lorenzetti's words, the court presented an institutional video where were shown different victims of murders of the last 70 years, and the last one who appeared was prosecutor nisman, in my opinion i think it's a true despisable operation, because justice hasn't determined yet whether what happened with him was a suicide or a murder.
Beside, the court decided to invite the victims of the attack against amia, but they were put in a place in the ground of the institution, where they could se the president on tv, because of that fact, they decided to leave, because they considered it was an humilliation, however the first places inside the big room, were occupied by some journalists from the hegemonical press from this country. In some way this action shows what are the priorities of the court.
@ 8 Anbar
Mar 05th, 2015 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So far, Blair & Bush(es) have got away with whatever alleged crimes they may have committed, indeed as you say Blair has prospered.
Wonder how it will go for CFK once she is no longer in power.
It was good Lorenzetti wasn't talking under oath, because he blatantly lied when talking about that 1999 supreme court's decision (which he co-signed) about the Israeli embassy bombing.
Mar 05th, 2015 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As Axel pointed out in #11, the court had issued a judgement declaring Hezbollah's responsibility in the bombing. Now, there is no “judge” thing when no individual has been declared guilty. As a result, the famous decision called to keep investigating--by no means closed the case.
And this sort of guy is president of the Argentine supreme court. Unbelievable.
“Nisman family say Argentina prosecutor was murdered”
Mar 05th, 2015 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-31757878
I'm sure it will all go away as just another conspiracy against CFK....
13
Mar 05th, 2015 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do tell who we can believe in Argentina? Seems to me that ALL the polititians and ALL the judiciary have skeletons in their cupboards. I cannot believe that Argentina has so many liars and cheats, is it mandatory to lie and cheat to stay in power? If you want to keep power I suppose you must do that. What has happened to being responsible for ones actions in Argentina? Is that why you left or have they got something damaging against you?
AN ACLARATION.
Mar 06th, 2015 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I must do an aclaration, because i committed a mistake, i said in my comment 11 that the court supported a new injuction for the clarin group, actually that measure was for journal la nación, which has a debt with the state for 280 millions since 2002, and this new decision let that mediatic enterprice avoid the payment of it's debt, which is actually too shameful.
#16 Axel
Mar 06th, 2015 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes indeed. It's La Nacion, and the debt it has with the Argentine fiscal authorities works out to about $35 million U.S.
The debt is 10-year-old, and the state has been prevented from getting that money from...guess who? Some justices. I guess they are of the opinion that the money is better in private hands than those of the state.
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