Stella Calloni

Correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 8, 2024, p. 27

Buenos Aires. Our country is wounded, stripped of everything, half deadwas one of the phrases of Archbishop Jorge García Cuevas in his homily yesterday at the church of San Cayetano, in Liniers, a municipality in the province of Buenos Aires, where since Tuesday hundreds of faithful held a vigil to ask and thank the saint of the poor and forgotten, before beginning a march that reached the historic Plaza de Mayo, which was joined by social movements, representatives of all the trade union centers and human rights organizations.

The government of Javier Milei was denounced with the warning that Hunger is a form of violencethe human rights slogan during the event, and details were given of a situation, for many leaders, never lived in the country.

The chants and banners carried by the protesters were aimed at Milei’s government, which in less than eight months has caused poverty and indigence to skyrocket to figures ranging from 59 to 69 percent in the provinces, which the far-right government condemned to hunger by not sending the revenue sharing funds. In response to this, a call was made for unity, solidarity, resistance and hope.

On the other hand, the ruling party and its partners and friends prevented the deputies of the Peronist Union for the Fatherland party from presenting a project to expel the six legislators of the ruling La Libertad Avanza, who not only visited the military, tried and convicted for crimes against humanity committed during the last military dictatorship (1976-1986), but also wrote their own project to be released, which has been requested by the current vice president, Victoria Villarruel.

It is now known that the group made up of those detained most involved in the kidnappings, deaths and disappearances of thousands of victims handed over a folder containing the project that was allegedly written by Alfredo Astiz, who the media claims heads the group of well-known criminals.

Another scandal is the complaint by Fabiola Yáñez, former partner of former President Alberto Fernández, who is in Spain with their son, for which she asked to speak with Judge Julián Ercolini, who belongs to the so-called judicial district created during the government of conservative Mauricio Macri, with support from the United States embassy.

Days ago, Yáñez had rejected the possibility of filing a complaint. However, he contacted Ercolini and expanded the accusation regarding beatings and telephone harassment from Spain.

Fernandez published a statement on his social networks: Having learned from the media of Fabiola Yáñez’s complaint against me, I want to express that the truth of the facts is different. I will only say that it is false and that what she now accuses me of never happened..

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