CFK: 'Moreno is doing a very good job'

While attending a meeting at the Coninagro headquarters on Monday, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that controversial Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno “is doing a very good job.” 

According to sources that were present at the meeting, the President defended the Trade Secretary by assuring he was doing a very good job. 

Her statements come amidst a new scandal involving the Government official after he allegedly assaulted a PRO militant last Saturday.

According to witnesses, Moreno attacked a close aid to Vicente López’s mayoral candidate Jorge Macri, City Mayor Mauricio Macri’s cousin. 

This prompted many opposition officials to demand his resignation.

But this isn’t the first time that the President stands by her controversial “price sheriff.” 

In a public ceremony back in June 2008, the President staunchly defended him and stressed that “he does his job, which is defending the money of Argentine consumers.”

“Moreno is mean, it’s true. Whoever says that, they’re right. He is mean. But Government officials aren’t paid to be nice or mean, they are paid to do their job. And the job of a Trade Secretary is to precisely look after the money of Argentine consumers,” she had said.