Varela played as boomerang by sticky-fingered deputies

An investigation by La Prensa has revealed how millions of dollars came out of Pandeportes to benefit athletes of various disciplines. Instead of reaching the fields and stadiums, they fell into a black hole run by deputies. The report adds to others that showed similar handling in the case of monies destined to donations and to personnel hiring. In addition to their creativity and lack of principles, the deputies made hundreds of thousands of dollars, necessary to temporarily satiate their material appetites and their reelection aspirations. If they managed to get away with it, it was not only because of their trickery but because they had an Executive Body willing to give them the money and then turn a blind eye when they squandered it. Neither the president nor the Minister of Economy and Finance nor the director of Pandeportes seem to have done anything to stop the looting. And not by carelessness, not even by cowardice, but by interest. Varela wanted to buy the deputies, have them on their side to govern without dealing with the obstacles that they use to blackmail. The play hit him like a boomerang: he empowered the gang so. 3 much that now the gang controls everything. LA PRENSA, Oct 31