Pablo Duggan’s counterattack to Nacho Álvarez: “He’s a sucker”

Paul Duggan and Ignatius Alvarez they are locked in a tough binational debate. The Argentine journalist was a correspondent in Buenos Aires for Álvarez’s radio program for 12 years until the Uruguayan communicator decided to end the relationship. “There was a change that I couldn’t understand… for me it lost credibility“Said the driver of La pecera (Azul FM) in reference to the turn in Duggan’s opinions that went from being a critic of Kirchnerism to defending certain actions by Cristina Fernández.

Now, the latest news of this crossing comes from Buenos Aires. On Radio 10 in Buenos Aires, Duggan addressed the Astesiano case and communicated with the Uruguayan journalist Fabián Cardozo, who is also president of the Uruguayan Press Association (APU). In dialogue with Cardozo, Duggan complained about a “supposed media shield” in Uruguay about the figure of Luis Lacalle Pou.

“Here they sell you Lacalle Pou as a clean guy, perfect, wonderful, 10 points. And it turns out has a very serious corruption scandalDuggan said.

“Nobody talks about these things in Uruguay,” he added. “That’s why I asked Fabián Cardozo, who is our man in Uruguay, to tell us a little about what is happening to Lacalle Pou with the Astesiano scandal.”

Cardozo believed that it is a topic “that is little talked about in Uruguay but it was talked about a lot because you put it on the agenda a bit,” the Uruguayan journalist considered in reference to an editorial by Duggan on C5N.

On the end of the contact, Duggan commented: “How barbaric is media shielding. That’s why some government suckers jumped on me.”

On Twitter, the Argentine journalist directly pointed to Nacho Álvarez as one of the alleged “suckers”.

Sharing a quote attributed to the president’s ex-wife, Lorena Ponce de León, Duggan charged hard against his former boss. “Lacalle’s suckers get mad at me, like Nacho Alvarez, but even the former first lady thinks she has some things to answer for the president,” she wrote.