Reply #4: Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz former Minister of Economy of Argentina

[Metternich1815]

I must remind you that the former minister of Economy from
1976 to 1980 had been judged by a Federal Court under the
Constitutional Government of Raul Alfonsin about this very
same case. The trial lasted several months and at the end, the
Ccourt’s decision was that he had anything to do with the
kidnap of the Gutheim father and son, there were not enough
proves to indict him regarding the case. He even rejected the
amnesty granted by another constitutional government of Mr.
Menem four years later. This is the only case in which Mr.
Martinez de Hoz was accused, and nobody had linked him to any
other crime committed by the military or the navy during that
period of history of our nation. By the way, my family left
Austria after the “Anschluss” to the German Reich persecuted
by the Gestapo, I want to clarify this due to my Austrian
roots, and somebody may say that I must be a “Nazi” or
something similar. I am a convinced supporter of
democratically elected governments, no matter if they are
conservatives, liberals, socialists or so-called Labour in the
UK. I studied many years ago at Harvard and at La Sorbonne in
Paris, I am a PhD in law and I remember that in our Western
World nobody can be judged twice for the same crime “Non bis
in idem”. Which is the case of Mr. Martinez de Hoz right now,
a man who lost his wife just a couple of months ago of cancer,
she died after suffering for the continues attacks and
harassment organized by groups of the far left in Argentina,
most of them had received money and support for our
administration, which according with Transparency
International is one of the most corrupted regimes in South
America, they use “progressive speeches” but they are
extremely authoritarian, they want to suppress our freedom of
press, which is a constitutional right. Our Supreme Court has
to decide in the next months about the law enacted in a total
irregular way by the Congress, which violates not only the
Argentine Constitution but even the regulations of both houses
of Congress.