The Government will announce next Monday the replacement of Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta at the head of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity; after President Alberto Fernández accepted his indeclinable resignation, produced as a result of the differences with the police action in the eviction of a supposed Mapuche community in the Rio Negro area of Villa Mascardi.
The feminist lawyer had specifically denounced “serious violations of the human rights of detained women” during the operation.
“The imprisonment, the denial of release for all of them and even more so for a 40-week pregnant woman, the incommunicado detention and the transfer to more than 1,500 kilometers from her place of residence,” and argued that such actions “constitute obvious violations of human rights”.
The departure of Gómez Alcorta at the head of the respective portfolio fueled rumors of a cut and reduction of the Ministry to a rank of Secretarywithin the framework of the budgetary adjustment carried out by Economy Minister Sergio Massa to meet the fiscal goals of the agreement with the IMF.
However, the spokeswoman for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, was in charge of denying the versions and said that they were “nonsense.”
