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Weekly Report - 05 February 2015 (WR-15-05)

ARGENTINA: Pressure and incompetence mar Nisman probe

In an elaborate and menacing piece of political theatre, Jorge Capitanich, the cabinet chief, tore up a copy of the Clarín newspaper live on television on 2 February. The newspaper had published a report that investigators had found a draft copy of an arrest warrant for President Cristina Fernández in the rubbish outside the apartment of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman. Viviana Fein, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation into Nisman’s death, denied the report, prompting Capitanich’s stunt. A day later, Fein retracted her statement saying that it was an honest mistake. Capitanich then claimed he had been deliberately fed false information as part of a plot to discredit the government. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the supreme court has let it be known that it is worried Fein’s investigation “lacks direction”.

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