After the National Government decided to remove the retired general from his position rodrigo soloaga by “excuse to state terrorism”, a military forum remarked that he was a veteran of the Falklands War and criticized his expulsion.
On April 22, in an act held at the Campo Argentino de Polo on the occasion of the Day of the Cavalry weapon, Soloaga stated in his speech: “It is to remind all the comrades of the Cavalry who are deprived of their freedom as a consequence of having fulfilled functions in the ranks of the force during a difficult time for our country and to express our permanent and renewed accompaniment in these circumstances that they have to face and that they carry with stoicism”.
The speech reached the ears of the Defense Minister, Jorge Taiana, which decided to remove him from his post in the Cavalry Weapons Commission. Responses from human rights organizations that assured that the military’s sayings pierce democracy will also be forthcoming. But days after the decision, the Forum of Retired Generals issued a critical statement against Taiana’s decision and supporting Soloaga.
“Resentment, hatred and revenge are not good advisers, they lead people to commit mistakes and injustices. Those who hold public office adopt these positions, if they are good men they apologize or move away from the function, until they recover the necessary balance to exercise it ”, the letter from the military says in a passage.
They also claimed their role in the Falklands War and the combat of the table during what happened the administration of Raul Alfonsin. For Soloaga’s comrades, “clearly there is no apology for terrorism, no gratitude, no judgment or adjectives to interpret in one way or another.” And they added thatthe harangue does not carry a critical opinion but a pious message towards “the prisoner that must be visited”; to avoid suspicion, it is not even stated that they fulfilled ordered functions, only that they fulfilled functions”.
That is why they called for “harmony, for the appeasement of the spirits of those who were still tied to the past confrontations between Argentines, approaching the future from a frank perspective of history, to get closer to the truth, to in order to judge the past and its protagonists fairly, based on such a basic, old, and forgotten principle of equality before the law”.
According to the arguments put forward by Taiana for the removal, Soloaga violated article 1 of the Military Disciplinary Code, which indicates that they must “adjust their conduct to strict compliance with the National Constitution and the other laws of the Republic, as well as the observance compliance with military laws and regulations, respect for command orders, subordination to the hierarchical regime and compliance with all obligations arising from the military state”.
Memories of April at the time of the Malvinas War
Who is Rodrigo Alejandro Soloaga?
The 75-year-old man is a Malvinas veteran, he participated in the confrontation of the table in 1989 and has a long history in the military exercise.
In 2004, already in the government of Néstor Kirchner, he requested his retirement after learning that the president would remove the cadres of Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone from the Military College. “It runs counter to principles and convictions that I am not willing to negotiate, much less with the petty objective of endorsing behaviors that tend to devalue the institution and, in some way, force it to abandon a history full of greatness, honor and dignity,” he argued. so
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