“Buenas tardes damas y caballeros, We are now live from Diario Canal 26 reporting a major story that has just came out! A police probe in Rosario investigating money laundering charges has ballooned into a prominent investigation implicating dozens of public officials from the Justicialist party in charges of bribery, money laundering, corruption and even manslaughter! Although we state our dear viewers that the investigation is ongoing and evidence compiled and thus the charges may change in the future, already several arrest warrants were issued as well as the requisitioning of devices and evidence from compliant witnesses. The document as released by Rosario’s Police and Justice Department makes note that the incumbent President Alberto Fernandez is implicated indirectly with these dealings as well as the Kirchners, presenting aditional doubt over if Kirchner’s case will be reconsidered, extending the sentence given last year. This is your 5pm report on Diario Canal 26, Stay tuned for further updates.”

In the aftermath of Kirchner’s sentencing, further evidence was uncovered implicating members of the Kirchner family and prominent Peronists in a major corruption scandal. Similar in scope to Operation Car Wash in Brazil, it has resulted in incumbent President Alberto Fernandez facing enormous backlash. While the president has avoided the direct legal fallout of the Kirchners. His association with them and prominent peronists has not won him any favors to help fix his tanking popularity and support. The subsequent events further radicalized the Peronists against the establishment and government institutions, seeing their proceedings as a plot to weaken the Argentinian left in the leadup to the October presidential election as Lula’s imprisonment did to Brazil’s PT. The Argentinian Right on the other hand supports the proceedings as long awaited justice towards corrupt politicians and welcomes the indirect weakening of the Justicialist Party and the Argentinian Left due to this event.