Javier Milei, the new President of Argentina, is finalizing the appointments of the new government, which are already being discussed at international level, a week after taking office. In addition to the appointment of Rodolfo Barra, a former neo-Nazi, as head of the public prosecutor’s office, the highest national law firm, Sandra Pettovello, is also a figure […]
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Javier Milei, the new president ofArgentina, A week after installation it is complete the appointments of the new government, which they are already starting to do discuss at international level. In addition to the designation as Head of the Public Prosecutor’s Officethe highest national legal office, Rodolfo Barra, A former neo-Nazi, is appointed head of the Ministry of Education Sandra Pettovello, central figure of the party La Libertad Advance payment. He also appears on Pettovello’s team Maria Eleonora Urrutia, a right-wing extremist exponent, married to Hernan Buchian economist and former finance minister of Augusto Pinochet In Chile. Both of the couple’s names came up during the investigation “Panama Papers” among those who hid their assets in tax havens.
Surprisingly, Milei confirmed last Friday that he had assigned the position to Barra, a decision that provoked an immediate reaction from the Argentine Forum Against Anti-Semitism (Faca) and the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (Daia), as well as controversy at the international level. Barra’s career at the top of Argentine politics and justice goes back 90sif with the presidency of Carlos Menem He was first a member of the Supreme Court and then Minister of Justice between 1994 and 1996, a position in which he was forced to do so resignation after his denunciation as a member of the Nationalist Tacuara movement, an Argentine far-right, Orthodox Peronist and fascist movement. Due to his political positions, Barra only took on tasks in the private sector in the following years and worked, among other things, as a consultant for the company he controlled, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 Eduardo Eurnekian.