Contact Admin. Antonio Baseotto b. Until February he was Argentina's military bishop obispo castrense , that is, the head of the military chaplains , with the status of Subsecretary of State. Baseotto was born on April 4, and ordained as a priest in He was in charge of the Sunday programming schedule in a local TV channel and several times he was formally accused of anti-Semitism due to public statements on air.
Among other things, in he affirmed that most of the Jewish community in Argentina "devotes itself, with much skill and often with very few moral principles, to big business It does not matter the means If pornography is good business, [the Jew] sells pornography.
And if drugs are good business, he sells drugs He also claimed that "the means for spreading culture are in the hands of the Hebrews", who are "desintegrat[ing] the bases" of the national civilization and culture.
He never went to court or apologized for these statements. According to some sources, he ordered the murder of the girl because she discovered by mistake a meeting between the bishop and drug traffickers.
In Baseotto was appointed bishop of his diocese. During his time, he was acknowledged as a supporter of the provincial government and especially of its police force, accused of innumerable abuses and violations of human rights. In bishops' meetings he repeatedly refused to condemn or criticize the policies of President Menem 's administration denounced by most other bishops as causes of poverty.
