Corrientes Security Minister Buenaventura Duarte will be replaced by the national deputy Alfredo Vallejos, Valdés’s confidant.
Duarte is the subject of many accusations for his “poor” performance in the search and investigation into Loan’s disappearance on June 13. He is also the boss of Commissioner Walter Maciel, who was arrested for having diverted the investigation, among other things for not having taken the first steps to find the minor. This Thursday the foundation Alameda named Duarte in a complaint for covering up a human trafficking network. He demanded that he testify before the court, along with Valdés himself and other political figures such as the Minister of Planning, Miguel Olivieri.
In addition, Duarte is related to the lawyer José Fernández Codazzi, who accompanied Loan’s aunt, Laudelina Peña, to testify before the provincial court – when the case was in the hands of the federal court. On that occasion, she declared that the child had been run over by the truck of the naval captain, Carlos Peréz, and the municipal official, María Victoria Caillava. Both are in custody. It is suspected that they are involved in the disappearance of the minor. Laudelina was taken to testify by Fernández Codazzi and the provincial senator Diego Pellegrini, a man who is extremely trusted by the governor. The link between Duarte and Fernández Codazzi is through the lawyer’s wife, Guillermina Traverso, who is an official of the Corrientes Ministry of Security and is believed to be the secretary of the now ex-official.
This week, Valdés gave a conference where he tried to justify why he celebrated on his social networks – after Laudelina Peña declared – that a great step had been taken.
“That tweet was out of anxiety, who among us from Corrientes isn’t anxious? I think it has to be only a heartless person who isn’t anxious to know,” he said. “At that moment we were watching TV, we knew that the declaration was being made, and I did it out of anxiety,” added the radical governor Valdés.
This Friday it was revealed that Laudelina Peña has asked to expand her statement. According to her new lawyer, Mónica Chivirin, it will be to refute her first version.
Macarena, Laudelina’s daughter, told the media that her mother was threatened and forced to report that Loan had been run over and to blame Carlos Pérez and María Victoria Caillava.
Loan’s father traveled to the Federal Capital in search of presidential support. But Javier Milei told him that he would not receive it because “it was not appropriate.” For the leader of La Libertad Avanza, who governs in favor of big businessmen and bankers, what happens to a child from Corrientes is of no concern to him. This is also explained by his decision to close and reduce budgets for programs to fight gender violence and human trafficking.
The disappearance of little Loan, for which there are hundreds of versions about what happened to the minor, revealed that in the province the disappearance of minors is a common practice. This is what the people of Corrientes denounce every time they mobilize. They point out that political and police officials are involved in these events. The criminal business of trafficking networks can only be carried out with the connivance of state officials. Judges, customs personnel, politicians and police forces are part of this criminal network.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
