In the midst of one of the most tense political moments in recent Argentine history, Diego Armando Maradona surprised with a strong public definition after the Senate vote that stopped the delusional mobile withholding scheme promoted by the government of the corrupt and convicted Cristina Kirchner in 2008.
The former captain of the Argentine national team did not hide his emotion when then-vice-president Julio Cobos cast the vote that ended up rejecting the measure in Congress.
For Maradona, that decision represented a direct response to the social climate that existed in the country after months of conflict between the government and the agricultural sector, supported by the majority of society.
In television statements made in July of that year, the soccer idol recounted how he experienced that political moment: “I shouted as if it were a goal. I shouted it for my country, for my flag, because since the day before people had said enough,” Maradona
said.The phrase reflected the impact of the discussion of the so-called Resolution 125, a measure that had generated a profound political, economic and social crisis for several months.
Although the former soccer player acknowledged that he had accompanied the presidential election of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, he also expressed criticism of the direction the administration was taking: “I was doing everything backwards”.
The controversial Resolution 125
The conflict that resulted in that historic vote began on March 11, 2008, when the then Minister of Economy Martín Lousteau announced a new scheme of withholding agricultural exports through
