Government admits that police killed piqueteros Duhalde appeared today in an act of Prefecture, the same one that on Wednesday shot upon the demonstrators in conjunction with the police, saying that the repression had been “a ferocious hunting party.” The president spoke “against impunity,” and even spoke of the Cabezas case. The media, which before yesterday had shown broken shopwindows and hysterical businesspeople as their news headlines, today fought to see who would show the crudest imagines of the murder of Darío. Polititians, analysts, lawyers, all outline hypotheses and reconstruct the events, demonstrating once and again what all of us knew: that Darío and Maximiliano had been killed by the police. Atanasof (the presidential cabinet’s chief of staff) had to save his provocative declarations, and the lies were torn apart. The case of Duhalde is not just about a change in political position, but about a confession communiqué. The government was who prepared the repression; and it also has been agitating the media since weeks ago, promoting “hard-hand” (dealings with protesters), discussing the army’s training in repression tactics, threatening demonstrators. It is they, and no others, who are politically and intellectually responsible for the deaths of Darío and Maximiliano. This was not about, as Governor Solá had said, “an agile lunatic,” the Commissioner who shot on them, but rather about the person who, step-by-step, directed the brutal repression, the assassination of our comrades and the illegal breaking into the offices of Izquierda Unida (the United Left) and various people’s houses. This was a systematic, premeditated, political, and prepared plan by the government, which was executed through the government’s communications (media) machine, and now it is pretending to be uncovered, on the basis solely of the most bloody and coarse aspects. What will they try to do now? Will they try to put out a theory about two demons, to criminalize the demonstrators? With they jail some cops as scapegoats so that the essence of their plan remains unpunished? Will they continue with a controlled “hard hand” campaign? Perhaps it’s too early to tell now, but we should not let down our guard for a second.