Milagro Sala, you'll recall, was transferred to house arrest following a supreme court ruling in 2017.
Morales hemmed and hawed for a couple of months, and then put her in a abandoned halfway house - which her supporters refurbished at their expense (by way of a fundraiser).
She was dragged back and forth between the halfway house and jail at least twice - as a way of breaking her emotionally, you know?
When it became evident Fernández would be elected president, Morales finally allowed Sala a transfer to her own house in San Salvador de Jujuy last year.
No one doubts that Fernández, who's a lawyer, had a word with Morales. He's also made an effort to get along well with the touchy governor, which has helped Sala's situation.
Though confined, she and her husband have reportedly been happy there - so much so in fact that Clarín's TN cable news outlet recently staged a fake news on her by showing her "having a party amid the quarantine (!)."
Except the video is clearly dated 12/31/19.
Some are pushing Fernández to try to have a mistrial declared - but it's next to impossible, given the stacked courts in Jujuy, and given that the Supreme Court already refused to hear the case for one.
And since Jujuy Province Peronists couldn't get their act together, and ran on three different slates (thereby assuring Morales re-election), it looks like Sala will have to wait until 2024. She'll be 60.
In the meantime, at least she's safe and comfortable in her own home.
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