In-depth reports and analysis from our extensive network of correspondents throughout the region on the most important developments in Latin America. In this edition, researchers speak with Argentine political analysts Jorge Kreyness and Leonardo Santoro, who regard the “Nisman affair” as a destabilization attempt against the Argentine government, particularly aimed at harming the image of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. She was charged by ex Prosecutor Alberto Nisman last January with covering up the 1994 attack on the Jewish Community Center AMIA, and after Nisman’s death, her administration was also accused of his murder. The analysts believe that the accusations are losing momentum and will soon be rejected by the Judiciary. According to Constitutional Law expert and renowned jurist Eduardo Barcesat, Nisman’s complaint never had the capacity to make an impact in the courts and never helped to resolve a crime, but it did obstruct investigations. “Nisman had always worked closely with the US Embassy to which he used to show his rulings before taking them to the judiciary, and also used to work with intelligence developed by the CIA,” says Barcesat. The experts consulted also comment on similar destabilization strategies that have been employed in Venezuela and Brazil and say that the failure of the Nisman complaint does not mean that such strategies will come to an end.
