A Uruguayan senator asked Parliament to support Cristina Kirchner. He was stopped with a damning remark.
Senator Felipe Carballo attempted to get the Uruguayan Senate to support Cristina Kirchner's conviction. Da Silva's response was blunt: "I'm not going to vote for a piece of shit." A backbiting that exposed contradictions and left the Broad Front offside.
.jpg "The embarrassment caused by the Broad Front defending Cristina Kirchner in the Senate 1")
Felipe Carballo, in a solitary attempt to transform justice into militancy.
Felipe Carballo attempted to turn the Senate into a defender of Cristina Kirchner, but was met with a parliamentary slam, led by Sebastián Da Silva.
Felipe Carballo, a senator from the Broad Front, stood up in the previous half-hour with a solemn air and an epic tone, to ask for the unthinkable: that Uruguay, yes, Uruguay, repudiate the judicial conviction of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina.
His signature phrase was: "The Argentine people are intimidated." Strong, isn't it? It's a shame he forgot to mention evidence, oral trials, legal defense, or any hint of legal context. But of course, his was more an act of nostalgic activism than an institutional statement.
.jpg "The embarrassment caused by the Broad Front defending Cristina Kirchner in the Senate 2")
Felipe Carballo, in a solitary attempt to transform justice into militancy.
As if it were a revival of the "homeland yes, colony no" rhetoric, Carballo tried to paint Cristina as a democratic martyr. He forgot, however, that she was tried for corruption, with all the guarantees of due process. Proscription? No. It was a conviction. Legal, documented, and with a final verdict.
And then, as in any good piece of political theater, the antagonist appeared: Sebastián Da Silva. Lapidary, direct, and without hesitation, he uttered the phrase that unsettled the room: "I'm not going to vote for a fool ." And that was it. A single adjective, as Uruguayan as it was accurate, was enough to puncture the balloon inflated with fake solemnity.
The result: Of the 25 senators present, only 16 supported Carballo's request. The rest opted for silence, discomfort, or outright rejection. Because even within the Broad Front, there are those who understand that the Argentine justice system, whether we like it or not, operates by its own rules. And it's not one to be lectured from Montevideo.
The most curious thing is that Carballo, while demanding that Uruguay not interfere in other people's affairs, was proposing that... Uruguay interfere in other people's affairs. A circular logic so absurd that not even his own people could sustain it.
The episode left several lessons: that the Kirchnerist epic no longer excites as much as it once did, that impunity cannot be defended with grandiloquent speeches, and that in the Uruguayan Parliament there are still those who prefer to call things by their name.
Maybe next time Carballo will rehearse better. Because if he's going to put on an act, he should at least have a coherent script.
