The recent jailing for four years on fraudulent charges of former Argentine Planning Minister Julio De Vido, a friend of the Schiller Institute, has raised alarm bells because of the inhumane conditions in which the 75-year-old is being held at Ezeiza Penitentiary Complex in Buenos Aires. Suffering from diabetes and other ailments, and being denied proper medication, food and water, De Vido is confined to a tiny cell of 3 x 3 meters, unable to exercise as prescribed by his doctors. His wife, Alessandra Minnicelli charged in an interview with Radio Provincia that he is being held in “miserable, inhumane and intolerable conditions” that threaten his life.
He is a victim of the vindictiveness of lunatic President Javier Milei, who claims that Argentina’s most dangerous enemy is not poverty, underdevelopment or unpayable debt, but “Kirchnerism.” But at a higher level it was U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio whose March 21, 2025 statement accused both De Vido and former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of “significant corruption,” participation “in multiple bribery schemes” while in office, and stealing “millions of dollars” from the Argentine government. Both are barred from entering the United States.
This assault on De Vido coincides with escalating attacks on Cristina Kirchner, currently serving a six-year term under house arrest on phony corruption charges. The court handling her case is threatening to restrict her visitation rights and even revoke her house arrest if she doesn’t follow their arbitrary “rules.” The Anglo-American apparatus behind these attacks would like nothing better than to see her in jail or dead. She has already suffered one assassination attempt on Sept. 1, 2022.
