A tweet by Naval Engineer Raúl Podetti refuting the expressions of satisfaction that Governor Mariano Arcioni expressed on his Twitter account from the Armón Vigo SA Shipyards (Galicia, Spain), highlights the high level of protection or political connivance enjoyed by the Spanish interests in Argentina, to the point that, even in the case of shipbuilding companies that are enriched as a result of the illegal fishing practiced in the Malvinas, they obtain the attention, approval and propaganda of the Chubut president.
Arcioni was last week in the port city of Vigo, capital of Galicia. He went to participate in the International Frozen Seafood Products Fair, Conxemar ; leading the important delegation of ministers, secretaries, officials and businessmen from the Patagonian States with a maritime coast who traveled to Spain to be present at the three days of intense commercial activity in fishing matters; whose dimension and importance for Europe and the world can be understood by simply mentioning that in the recent 2022 edition, 700 exhibitors from 44 countries could be heard.
In addition to being in Conxemar, the governor went to visit one of the shipyards where ships were built for the companies that operate with a license from the province that he leads in his second term; and this is what he commented: “We toured the Armón Shipyard in Vigo, which is important for Argentina and our province because it builds a large part of the freezer ships for the national fishing industry,” Arcioni said on Twitter last Wednesday. 5, along with three photographs that show it in the Armón workshops, on the dock of the industrial complex and exhibiting on a map of Chubut.
➡️We toured the Armon Shipyard in Vigo, which is important for Argentina and our province because it builds a large part of the freezer boats for the national fishing industry. #AdelanteChubut pic.twitter.com/Uj9ccg9p8i
— Mariano Arcioni (@arcionimariano) October 5, 2022
Everyone sees, everyone hears, but no one notices
It is possible that Arcioni does not know, that no one told him; or that, being aware, he did not care that the Armón Shipyard that he visited was beginning to build, in that same place and at the same time, a trawler of about 70 meters in length for South Atlantic Squid , one of the most important joint ventures that fish squid, hake and other species in the Malvinas with an illegal British license; composed of the Galician shipowner Copemar and its partner based in Puerto Argentino, Beauchene Fishing.
In any case, it seems impossible that he, like the rest of the delegation, which also included the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Nation Carlos Liberman and the Argentine ambassador to Spain, Ricardo Alfonsín , in addition to the Foreign Ministry; They had overlooked that at the International Fair they attended, an important Copemar stand had been set up promoting and selling the fishing resources that they steal from the country and, even less, that no one noticed the gigantic presentation of the plan of the new trawler that is being built by the Armón Shipyard to replace the Baffin Bay , which burned and sank in the port of Vigo after returning from Malvinas in 2020.
The same day that Arcioni visited the Shipyard, Faro de Vigo headlined: “Copemar exhibits at the fair what will be its new trawler for Malvinas waters.” And on the way down it explained: “The shipowner shows a plan at its stand.” of the ship that Armón Vigo will build.”
Far from the gaze of the ex-combatants and their expressions of rejection, inconsequential for the Argentine press that feeds on the political situation as the only topic to follow; the chancellor Santiago Cafiero , the secretary of Malvinas Guillermo Carmona , the members of the Malvinas National Council, Government and opposition; They turn a blind eye to the official acts of the governor of Chubut, visiting and praising those who support those who, day after day, strengthen the British occupation of our territory.Worse still, keeping a complicit silence in the face of the international propaganda displayed at the Fair by Copemar ; so as not to have to denounce one of the main actors in carrying out fishing plundering in the waters surrounding our usurped southern islands.
