The former Kirchnerist president Alberto Fernández has been criminally charged for the alleged crimes of treason against the homeland and revelation of information from the Argentine State, following the controversial statements he made about the military capabilities of the country amid the renewed claim of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
The legal filing, reported this Monday by LN+ by journalist Luis Gasulla, came after Fernández publicly used the state of the Argentine Armed Forces to send an unusual message of reassurance to the United Kingdom: “Let the English not worry because Argentina is absolutely disarmed”.
The statements were made during an interview in which the former president sought to question the policy on the Falklands promoted by the government of Javier Milei, which in recent days announced new measures to strengthen the Argentine claim over the archipelago and protect the natural resources of the South Atlantic.
Fernández, who served as president from 2019 to 2023 and thus acted as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not only claimed that the country was disarmed but also attacked the current government's decision to rebuild military capabilities. In this regard, he described the acquisition of 24 F-16 fighter jets as a “embezzlement” and asserted that the aircraft were “an old relic” that were “useless.”
