President Cristina Fernández’s over-reaction to new formal charges that she tried to cover up Iran’s suspected role in the 1994 terrorist attack against the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires suggests that things in Argentina will get a lot worse before they get better.
Fernández, who is scheduled to leave office after October presidential elections in which she can’t run seek a third term, claimed that the formal charges filed Friday against her, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and two other close supporters amounted to a “coup” attempt against her government.
Instead of continuing with her previous strategy of trying to discredit the accusations by claiming that they are untrue and legally unsustainable for lack of evidence, and by characterizing the prosecutors as a bunch of amateurs, she raised the stakes.
Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich called the new formal charges “an active judicial coup,” and presidential secretary Anibal Fernández denounced them as “a clear maneuver of anti-democratic destabilization.”
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