Argentina announces that it has rogue murder-assassination squads.

To put this in perspective: imagine if we had had an apparent ‘suicide’ of a prominent administration critic just before he was about to testify against the Obama administration, and the administration came out and blamed the whole thing on rogue elements within the NSA that wanted to attack President Obama. That’s pretty much the Argentinian government’s position on the assassination of state prosecutor Alberto Nisman, and it’s a heck of a thing when that’s considered to be still a better story than the actual truth. Which is: Mr. Nisman was investigating the Iranian bombing of an Argentinian synagogue; he got hindered in his investigation by would-be dictator Cristina Fernandez, who is in cahoots with the Iranians to cover up the Iranian regime’s involvement in said bombing; Nisman was about to talk about all of that to a court; and so the Fernandez regime proceeded to put a bullet in his head*.

There’s not much more to say about this, except of course that it’s even money that the Fernandez regime will actually get away with this.  When your country’s economic/political environment is as much of a hot mess as Argentina’s is, conspiracy theories start to look a lot more believable.  That’s because they at least make internally consistent sense – and in a country where a coup is apparently always around the corner and you never know if your cup of coffee is going to be significantly more expensive at the end of the day than it was at the beginning of it, consistency begins to loom large as a virtue.

Via @BrianFaughnan.

Moe Lane

*Sprinkle ‘allegedly’ throughout that sentence to fit your personal sense of decorum.  Also: you can probably tell from this that I have no intention of ever, ever visiting Argentina.

5 thoughts on “Argentina announces that it has rogue murder-assassination squads.”

  1. Most countries try fascism once, get it out of their systems, say “let’s never do that again”, and get on with things.
    Not Argentina.

  2. When we speak of the US federal bureaucracy being “weaponized” it is a metaphor. Not Argentina.

  3. They seem to be spending a lot of time between hits is what I think. Twenty years is quite some time.*

    *Like the ‘smoking man’ in the X-Files. I didn’t know whether to be disturbed that our government was doing the things he revealed or proud that they were so competent in the doing. And if they are doing these things, and so competent in the doing – then it would be best not to meddle with them, correct?

    *ahem* 🙂

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