He showed the exchange with his editor, Carlos Díaz, who had been contacted by Axel Kicillof’s wife to include the essayist in a vaccination campaign.
Beatriz Sarlo appeared this Wednesday in the Courts of Comodoro Py, cited in a testimonial statement by Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti. It was the framework of the case where the allegedly irregular circuit that operated from the Ministry of Health is investigated. There she said that she was contacted to receive the Sputnik vaccine as part of a campaign that was organized in the province of Buenos Aires. The invitation was made by the wife of Governor Axel Kicillof, Soledad Quereilhac.
Everything was exposed in email exchange that intellectual and journalist attached to his statement.
“The offer was at the end of January, it was through my editor Siglo XXI, Carlos Díaz, who from what I understood from the province of Buenos Aires were vaccinating to get photos that would persuade people,” said Beatriz Sarlo before the judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti.
This morning in the Courts of Comodoro Py, Sarlo appeared, summoned to testimony by the magistrate in charge of the case. In this situation, he indicated that after the call received through his editor, “there was still some doubt about the effectiveness of the vaccine. That came as an invitation from the province of Buenos Aires, through the wife of the governor of Buenos Aires, Soledad Quereilhac” .
He continued with his story before the magistrate and remarked that Diaz told him that “the idea was to legitimize the vaccine through public figures. I am from Capital was not listed in the registry.”
Beatriz Sarlo assured this Wednesday that she was the wife of the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof, Soledad Quereilhac, who offered her an early vaccination against the coronavirus.
Then, he said that Axel Kicillof’s wife was his student. “She contacted my editor. I would have no problem getting the vaccine, but I did not want the vaccine to become a ‘give and take’, by vaccinating a known person. I mean, I was waiting for it to be my turn. , according to my age and my place of residence. They never told me the place where I was going to be vaccinated, my hypothesis is that it was going to be in the province who made the offer to me “.
Sarlo accompanied his statement with a document in a digital medium that contains a document that reads “VACUNA FISCAL DEF”.
The court made a copy of the document and that was when the testimony concluded. Those documents show an email exchange with the editor of Siglo XXI. ” Dear Beatriz, (…) My name is Soledad Quereilhac because she is collaborating with the awareness campaign so that people get vaccinated. She asked me for a hand to contact some people, starting with you. It is a well thought out campaign (that is, They are not going to give it a political use, but clearly it is the campaign in favor of the vaccination of the Province of BA.) My first reaction was to think that you would never lend them to you, but in the face of the possibility that you can immediately vaccinate me It seemed like I had to ask you. It’s all ‘from the right’, nothing tricksy .
In the email, which dates from January 22 at 12:16 pm, Diaz explained: ” Many well-known people are going to be vaccinated and the idea is that later they comment that they have already done it, that they take a photo or that their name circulate in lists of personalities who took the step. Each one does what he wants, there are no conditions (the only one is that it can be said that the person was vaccinated) although obviously for the idea to work is that the news circulate as much as possible “.
At the end of the email, the editor maintains: ” You know that nothing is at stake in this, so if you say yes or no, everything will seem very good to me. I thought that your desire to circulate around the world as soon as possible make you see the most charming plan. Tell me what you think and count on me to manage the details if you accept . “
Sarlo’s reply came that same day at 1:39 p.m. He rejected the proposal thus: ” Dear Carlos, I think it is very good to campaign for people to get vaccinated. But it is a bit violent for me to receive the vaccine prize in exchange, which would give me this very moment, of course. It seems like a A campaign for those who can get vaccinated now, without queuing or waiting for turns. I think that example of intellectuals who receive that privilege is bad . “
In the final section of his response, Sarlo said: ” I have no problem with my name being used expressing my desire to be vaccinated. But I do not want to be vaccinated before it touches me just because I am a known name. It does not seem ethical to me .”
” Soledad should think about this aspect of her idea. She went to the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters not to study advertising at full speed, but to learn to reflect on the consequences of the first idea that crossed her mind. You can pass this message on to her if It seems to you that it helps not to rush with the first advertising idea, without thinking about the moral dimension of the whole thing, “he said about Kicillof’s wife.
Around 20:07, the editor of Sarlo in SXXI, responded to the refusal of the essayist. ” Dear Beatriz, I fully understand what you are saying and I will comment on it to Soledad. When I spoke I explicitly raised the matter you are commenting on. It seemed to me that the only justification for some prestigious and / or famous people to skip some places in the vaccination line It had to be that everything was within the framework of a well-armed campaign and not a group of people getting vaccinated and posting photos on the networks, which could be misinterpreted or seen as a fan , “said Díaz.
“They have already accepted a lot of figures and I think that what Soledad wanted to contribute was wealth and diversity, and that is why to the list of actors, athletes, etc., I wanted to add figures from the academy or the intellectual field. For her, you are one of the maximum exponents and that is why he thought of you, “he commented.
In his email, the editor also raised questions about the Province initiative. ” I think they do not pretend to be original with the campaign since in various countries of the world they are asking figures from different fields to take their photo giving themselves the vaccine, to show that it is important, that they trust, that it does not hurt, etc. ” .
” In these times, although it may seem horrible to me, a photo of the moment or a first-person testimony during an interview, I think it has more power than simple custom-made support. So I fully understand what you say about your disagreement in what relative to receiving it. I continued enjoying Córdoba! “, he said goodbye.