Ginés González García started the day knowing that it ended badly. It was Friday. The night before, late, from the Casa Rosada they had asked him for the list of vaccinated people from the policy who were inoculated against Covid-19 thanks to efforts by the Ministry of Health.
The following noon, it was already circulating through various media the interview-confession in which the founder of the news portal The Rocket to the Moon, Horacio Verbitsky, revealed the backroom of the coronavirus vaccines authorized by the minister to personalities related to the ruling party.
Verbitsky committed sincericide by self-incrimination in an irregular application of Sputnik V. He had lacerated not only to his own reputation: also to González García. It was the official who had set up a vaccination program in his public body for the benefit of influential K.
The President spoke with his minister when the controversy escalated in public opinion and within the government coalition itself. He got angry with his explanations. The Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, called him shortly after to ask for his resignation.
The angry man then was González García. He spent hours locked in his office at the Ministry of Health, meeting only with his most trusted advisers, hurt with Fernández, his friend, because he was being thrown out of office amid the VIP vaccine scandal.
He was beginning to be the main protagonist of an affair with consequences that were still difficult to measure.
“Ginés”, from that moment on, was the magnet for all the criticism from the press and social media audiences. His face appeared on the television screens as in a kind of increasingly hot national network in which he was cooking little by little.
“They left me alone,” he complained, according to unbeatable sources in his environment. “They are making me pay all the cost”He insisted, words more, words less.
González García believed in those hours of vertigo the same as a day later, already in the cruel and recent plain, out of power: “They used me in an operation to cover up what everyone knew was going on“, he argues in front of his acquaintances, not in a textual way, but in the same sense of that phrase.
González García reproaches the President for much of the K power knew of the vaccination provided to their own, skipping all protocol and health plan. The now former minister reveals that he actually made a gross mistake with the vaccination program he set up in his ministry.
His associates admit that he was inoculated with Sputnik to his main advisers, his secretaries, a chauffeur, and especially to employees who work in the Detectar program, dedicated to searching “in the territory” for Covid-19 positives.
González García also explained to officials that two of those vaccinated at the Ministry of Health, legislators Jorge Taiana and Eduardo Valdés, were treated there because This was indicated by the Casa Rosada because they were going to participate in the trip to Mexico that Alberto Fernández will lead earlier this week. They won’t go anywhere anymore. Unleashed the controversy over the VIP Vaccines, Fernández ordered that the two beneficiaries of his influence stay in Buenos Aires.
González García is increasingly convinced that the Casa Rosada “took advantage” of the scandal to accommodate the internal of power K.
Counselors of the President explained yesterday that the drastic request for the resignation of González García was a gesture of leadership from Fernández that serves as a message to the different referents of the Frente de Todos.
González García was until Friday an emblematic official of the Government. He led policies to combat the pandemic.
But he was also one of the ministers who had earned the annoyance of Vice President Cristina Fernández, and the leadership of the group led by his son Máximo, La Cámpora. That sector of power had been pressuring him for many months to leave his post.
The Ministry of Health was, at least until today, one of the main organisms of the State in which La Cámpora had not managed to appoint officials to hierarchical positions.
Gonzalez Garcia did not let the “campers” enter Salud. And he got on badly with the Minister of Health of Buenos Aires, Daniel Gollan, and also with his deputy minister, Nicolás Kreplak. He had more affinity with his Buenos Aires colleague, Fernán Quirós.
Unforgivable for Fernández (Cristina).
Until González García was fired, criticism for the vaccinated VIP they focused on the province of Buenos Aires.
Not anymore. The enemies of the Buenos Aires government of Ginés celebrate their “fall”. Have they encouraged her?
The former minister was one of the few who dared to answer the vice when she asked in a public speech that ministers who are afraid should resign from their position.
González García said about this criticism of the Cabinet that “he would never” “leave in the middle of this situation.” And he added: “I fight her every day and I’m going to keep fighting her. How am I going to go right now?”
The former minister added more anger at the Instituto Patria, the political headquarters of the vice president, when he resisted the advance of a plan by Fernández herself who, at a ceremony in La Plata, at the end of last year, launched a proposal that had been well studied : modify the Argentine health system to become the State Whoever has power over union social work and even prepaid companies, companies with private owners. González García was a Minister of Health with very good dialogue with the most powerful unions of the Peronist CGT.
It was also the vice who ordered the President to brake an increase that the Ministry of Health had enabled for private companies that provide health services.
Everything was canceled through a decree that González García signed a day after having approved the increase in the fees charged to their millions of clients.
So dizzying and problematic was this round trip, that the Superintendent of Health Services, Eduardo Zanarini, ended up hospitalized for a heart condition.
None of those conflicts or disagreements between González García and Fernández (Cristina) they do not excuse to the former minister of the VIP Vaccine scandal, for which he was held responsible by accepting the disaster in his letter of resignation.
González García took several hours to make his resignation public, although the President had asked him to leave at noon on Friday.
Surprised by the outcome of the controversy over the VIP vaccines, the former minister spent all Friday afternoon, until after nine at night, locked in his office thinking about what his discharge would be, and waiting for some endorsement from the President, which never came.
Other times. Alberto Fernández hugs Ginés González García in a ceremony at the Faculty of Medicine. It was on December 3, 2019 and there he confirmed him as minister. Photo Martín Bonetto.
In the office of the Minister of Health, where a huge mural by Quinquela Martin dazzles, González García insisted in front of his relatives: “I have to talk to Alberto”. In a moment of anger and impatience, he even got up from his chair and blurted out: “Well, I’m going to the Casa Rosada to see the President.”
His most trusted officials convinced him that there was no point in trying to reconcile anything with the boss who had had enough of him, so much as to cut off his communications and encourage criticism against him by leaking harmful information about him to journalists who were trying to find out what happens in the Casa Rosada on that rabid Friday.
Although he will never admit it in public, the former minister would be hurt because his secretary for Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, She accepted the President’s proposal and today she is the new minister of the area. Although it was González García who made her grow in the public function, Vizzotti several months ago had bad relationship with your direct boss.
Even with other hierarchical employees of the Ministry that he now leads.
The breaking of that bond occurred at the same time Vizzotti began to approach Vice President Fernández.
The official was chosen by her to lead the first visit to Russia to agree with the government of Vladimir Putin on the supply for Argentina of the Sputnik V vaccine.
“Well, go and see what happens with that”, would have been the response of González García when his subordinate informed him that he would travel to Moscow at the impulse of the vice president.
The unconditional advisers of the former minister let it transpire that time will show that La Cámpora officials will end up moving up in the Ministry of Health.
González García accepts that he was ugly wrong. But he is not willing to be mistreated by public opinion alone, in the face of the silence of a government that knew what it was doing, according to your version of events. He knows all the secrets of the management of the Casa Rosada in pandemic.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/vip-vaccination-gines-anger-because-the-government-left-him-alone/
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