Gabriel Boric, the president of Chili, criticized Alberto Fernández after the Argentine president signed a letter against the actions of the neighboring country’s justice, a fact that had already been negatively highlighted by two of the main ministers of the Santiago government. The politician made the statements in an emergency housing delivery in the Biobío region due to the Punta Lavapié forest fires.
“I respect the institutions, I expect the same from my colleagues. I understand that my Minister of Justice has already referred to the issue, but I am not going to escalate into controversies when emergencies are elsewhere, particularly here in the territory,” said the president. of Chili about the letter that his Argentine counterpart had signed in repudiation of the accusation of corruption of former presidential candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami.
At the time, the Minister of Justice, Luis Cordero, criticized the actions of Fernández, who pointed out that his statements were “improper”since “the government (of Chili) is not only respectful of judicial independence, but also promotes it.” On the other hand, the foreign minister of the trans-Andean nation, Antonia Urrejola, called Rafael Bielsa, the Argentine ambassador, to discuss the issue, although she maintained that this “does not affect the bilateral relationship” between the two countries because “it is a very robust relationship.” .
It all happened after Alberto Fernández signed a letter created by the Puebla Group called “A delayed justice is a denied justice.”in which they indicate that the prosecutors in this case against Enríquez-Ominami, one of the founders of this organization, “have been delaying the trial” through the use of “great media and financial support.”
Second problem in a month
This is not the only problem that existed in the bilateral relations between countriessince at the end of January audios of Foreign Minister Urrejola were leaked in which she referred to Bielsa in a very negative way after he criticized a measure by Gabriel Boric’s cabinet.
In the audio you can hear how the politician of the neighboring nation comments to one of his colleagues: “I am going to tell Bielsa that I remind him about the English ship. That this is a gesture ”, hours before calling the Argentine to criticize him for his statements, although a few days later he came out to apologize.