Stella Calloni
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, p. 26
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Know that whatever you do, you are not going to silence me. I was not and will never be a pet of powerwas the forceful expression of the two-time former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who yesterday spread a letter on social networks, in the context of strong political tension, since the Federal Chamber of Cassation must decide today whether to maintain sentencing her to six years in prison, or prohibiting her from holding public office, based on a false cause for alleged collection of bribes in a public work, which could never be proven.
From a very young age I have been active in Peronism and worked to achieve a fairer and more humane Argentina, and a nation that builds a homeland. And you know what? I plan to continue doing itsaid the former president. He also spoke of the impartiality of the judges who are in charge of his case and linked them to the interests of the big media, such as The Nation and the Clarín Group, pointing out that they are part of a power network that attempts their political ban.
In his message, he recalled the newspaper cover Clarion about the attempted assassination of which he was a victim on September 1, 2022, which said: The bullet that did not come out and the failure that will come outadvancing the decision of the judges, linked to former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), who condemned her without any evidence five days later. The question was: how did he know Clarion that the failure I was not going to fail?
Speaking today at the Union of Mechanics and Related Automotive Transport Workers of Argentina (Smata), Fernández de Kirchner said he had very clear why they are after me, it’s nothing new. In Peronism, persecution is nothing new. We are used to that. Far from intimidating us or making us retreat, it makes us much stronger.
In this case, other former government officials were also convicted without evidence in a scandal of the so-called Judicial Party, which was imposed during the government of former right-wing president Macri, with advice from the United States embassy.
Fernández de Kirchner will not attend today’s public hearing in which the resolution will be announced, which is never done, which is why the former president described it as a show; Neither will their lawyers, who have the option of presenting the case before the Supreme Court of the Nation.
Meanwhile, on November 17, the former president will assume the presidency of the Justicialist Party (Peronist), in an act of the only important national and opposition party in the country.
pure fiction by Milei
Yesterday, at the Smata headquarters, Cristina Fernández also spoke about the urgent need to rebuild a social and political framework that will finally return the country to its best times.
In a message addressed to the government of the supposed libertarianthe far-right Javier Milei, who manifests himself as the father of modernityFernández de Kirchner stated: Don’t come tell us any movie. They are telling Argentines about a movie that does not exist and that is pure fiction.
Meanwhile, those who will protest against this falsification of justice They will do so by presenting a public class on lawfare (judicial harassment), used for political persecution, in front of the courts.
The case against Fernández de Kirchner is an unscrupulous, illegitimate and illegal mix of concentrated media, politicians and a very small, but unfortunately very powerful sector of the Argentine justice system that pushed the hammer on the head of democracysaid the Buenos Aires Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Juan Martín Mena.
Faced with this new and dangerous advance of a justice openly committed to the concentrated groups of economic power and the mass media, it was reported yesterday that the Chamber that will decide on this case received a visit from a group of senior officials from the Department of United States Justice. A strange coincidence.
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