2023-06-26 01:44:00
He Peronist governor of Formosa, Gildo Insfrán, got re-election in the elections on June 25. In this way, the “leaderFormoseño won his eighth consecutive term since he first took office in December 1995 and, by the time his next government ends, he will have spent 32 years in power.
Faced with questions regarding his permanence in power, Gildo Insfrán, who at the age of 72 spent a third of his life in the governor’s chair, defended himself: “Alternation is decided by the people in elections”.
The results of the elections in Formosa
However, Luis Naidenoff from Formosa denounced that Insfrán managed to “consolidate an affective authoritarian leadership and a level of submission and dependence on the State” and the main opponents in the province They accuse him of being an autocrat.
The authoritarianism of the governor from Formosa became evident during the first stage of the pandemic, when complaints of institutional violence arose once morest those who in some way tried to break the mandatory isolation decreed at the national level.
According to the report “Formosa adopts abusive measures in its response to covid-19“, from Human Rights Watch, police actively searched neighborhoods where people who tested positive lived and forcibly took away suspected infections, sometimes without being able to pack clothes or personal hygiene items.
From March 2020 to April 2021, 24 thousand people were “forced” to remain confined under “unsanitary conditions” in isolation centers and quarantine in Formosa, some for periods longer than the 14-day period recommended by the World Health Organization, HRW said.
Authorities also mixed people who arrived on different dates in the same rooms and did not take into account their age, gender, health status and other risk factors, the report said.
Gildo Insfrán with Daniel Scioli and Néstor Kirchner. Gildo Insfrán and Aníbal Fernández.
Other international organizations, such as Johns Hopkins University, Amnesty International, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Justice said that the government of Insfrán committed human rights violations during isolation.
One of the most notorious cases was that of Zunilda Gómez, a 33-year-old pregnant woman who was taken by the police from her home in Clorinda and locked up with her three children in a hotel room.
On January 5, Gomez began to bleed and in desperation asked her daughter to climb out the window for help. Gomez suffered a miscarriage. Her husband, who was transferred to an isolation center 120 kilometers away following testing positive, found out regarding the miscarriage when a relative called him, HRW reported.
Mauricio Macri and Gildo Insfrán.
President Alberto Fernández’s envoy, Human Rights Secretary Horacio Pietragalla Corti He assured that beyond specific problems there were no systematic violations of human rights in Formosa in the framework of Insfrán’s actions to contain contagion.
An Amnesty International report denounced possible human rights violations in the cases of people affected by restrictions on access to the Province of Formosa, compulsory arrests in isolation centers, abusive use of force by security agents and repression once morest protesters.
A report published in PROFIL in 2021 recalls that the governor prohibited the entry of thousands of Formoseños who were outside the province, with which more than 7,500 were stranded at the borders, some for more than seven months, without the Formoseño authorities letting them know. allowed to return to their homes.
Amado Boudou, Daniel Scioli and Gildo Insfrán.
Desperate at not being able to be reunited with his family, a 23-year-old man, Mauro Ledesma drowned in early October 2020, when he tried to swim across the Bermejo Riverwhich separates Formosa from the province of El Chaco.
Finally, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation intervened, which on November 19, 2020 ordered the Insfrán government to guarantee the entry of all those who had requested it, recalls the article written by Connectas Foundation, Red Ruido and the International Center of Journalists.
Next, the government of Insfrán received claims for the management of suspected Covid cases in the province and overcrowding in isolation centerswith people who might not leave there for weeks (they were not allowed to isolate themselves at home), even with negative PCR test results.
Gildo Insfrán and Julio de Vido.
“I don’t mind losing an election if I have to save the life of a Formoseño,” said Insfrán.
Later, a document from social and Catholic organizations in western Formosa, dated February 12, 2021, denounced the persecution and repression of the indigenous peoples of the province, reporting several cases that occurred in the context of the pandemic.
Owner of a record that no other provincial leader in Argentine history can dispute, worldwide, only a dozen heads of state currently in office had longer terms than the man from Formosa at the head of his province.
Alberto Fernández and Gildo Insfrán.
He became governor in 2003, when he was voted in by more than 60% of the vote. That year, with the support of Néstor Kirchner, he obtained enough political capital to start a new reform of the provincial Constitution, which allowed him indefinite re-election.
In this way, he was re-elected as governor that year, in 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.
Insfrán was born on January 19, 1951 in the town of Laguna Blanca., as the youngest of the children of a family of Paraguayan immigrants. His father, an ex-combatant in the Chaco War, died when Gildo was a minor, forcing his brother Miguel to take over the family finances.
Gildo Insfrán and Cristina Kirchner.
Miguel Insfrán was able to pay for Gildo’s university studies in the province of Corrientes, where he graduated as a veterinarian. And it was precisely in his college days when the governor began to get involved in politics.
Gildo Insfrán flirted with Maoism in the Revolutionary Communist Party (PRC) and later joined the Justicialista Party (PJ). In 1983, following the dictatorship, he ran for provincial deputy representing his native town and in 1987 he was elected lieutenant governor as a member of the formula of Vicente Bienvenido Joga (1987-1995),
Since 1995 Insfrán has been in charge of the Formosa Executive, which is why he has already been in office for 28 years. The Formoseños call him “Insfrán” and “Gildo”, but within the state power structure they call him “El Uno” or “El Gober”; and in the Peronist sectors “El Tío Gildo”.
Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Sergio Massa and Gildo Insfrán.
He He calls himself the “first captain” but his achievements as ruler are highly questionable. According to INDEC, Formosa is one of the poorest provinces (reaching 42.2%) and with the highest illiteracy in the country, with a percentage that reached 4.1 percent, and with departments that had peaks of 13.5 points percentage.
Reports indicate that 41.1% of the population of Formosa does not have potable water in their homes and, according to the nation’s Ministry of Health, the infant mortality rate in the province stands at 12.6%, just for below those of Corrientes, which reached 14.5 percent.
During his last term, he also intensified his rhetoric once morest the inhabitants of the City of Buenos Aires, whom he once called “drones”.
“The porteños, who don’t know what it is to plant lettuce, want to come and tell us what we have to do. Drones who live off the effort and work of all the Argentine people,” he said. More recently, she simply said that “porteños are reverend sons of their mother.”
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