From the gardener of De la Rúa to the tennis teacher of Meijide, the background of the Donda case

The media scandal that was generated by the Alleged offer by Victoria Donda to her domestic employee to fill a position at the National Institute against Discrimination (INADI), an agency that the former deputy commands, put into effect some similar cases that also generated a stir.

According to the conversations on WhatsApp that were made public, Donda’s domestic employee made her claims for non-compliance in the realization of pension contributions and the payment of salary during the pandemic, which resulted in an offer of a social plan and a position of I work in the Inadi to solve the situation.

The case of former Labor Minister Jorge Triaca is one of the antecedents That comes to mind when the details of the Donda case become known. The conflict came to light by the broadcast of some private conversations that were added to some audios of the minister himself insulting his then employee Sandra.

“Sandra, don’t come back, you’re an asshole“Said one of the Triaca audios addressed to her employee who worked in her house in the Boulogne district of Buenos Aires. Along with her work at the Triaca family residence, the woman had an appointment in the San Fernando de la intervention of the SOMU union, the union led by Jorge “Caballo” Suárez and which had been intervened with the support of the national government.

Sandra Heredia had worked for more than 5 years with the Triaca family and, according to her own account, when she went to ask for a salary increase in 2017, she was offered the position at SOMU, with a much higher income than she received in the fifth of Boulogne.

Further back in time, in the year 2000, A controversy broke out with the then Minister of Social Development during the Alianza government, Graciela Fernández Meijide, when it was known that his tennis teacher Eduardo Wetzel was also an advisor in the portfolio that commanded the leader of the Frente Grande.

Wetzel had clarified at the time that Meijide was not directly responsible for their hiring, Instead, the decision had passed through the Secretary of Sports Marcelo Garrafo, but the figure of the former minister had already been hit by another matter that directly involved her, since it had been discovered that a nursing home that was a provider of PAMI and He had benefited from a recategorization belonged to his sister.

The late former president Fernando De la Rúa was another of those who was involved in a confusing episode when he was head of the Buenos Aires government that, in addition to the media, had its judicial edge.

It is that by 1994 the gardener of his villa in the town of Villa Rosa also received a salary from the former Deliberative Council of the City of Buenos Aires, which was already being targeted by the existence of “gnocchi” within its payroll.

The scandal also involved another person who was doing maintenance at his home on Montevideo Street and prompted a lengthy judicial investigation that was only closed in 2009 with the dismissal of De la Rúa.

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