The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo sent a brief message of solidarity to the Vice President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez, sentenced on December 6 to 6 years in prison for irregularities in the concession of road works during the Kirchner governments (2003-2015).
“To you, with admiration, respect and affection, in these difficult moments, when your courage and that of your people show themselves once again, defiant and capable of transcending the miseries, and of growing, even more, in the historical dimension that He has done them, and he makes them great, “said the Ortega administration without reproaching the sentence against the vice president.
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In the best style of Nicaragua’s deputy dictator, Rosario Murillo, the Nicaraguan government expressed its “solidarity in all struggles and always beyond, unyielding, lucid, formidable and profound spirituality.”
In the brief communication dated December 7, the Nicaraguan dictatorship told prisoner Cristina Fernández that “we continue to win, count on us.”
The expressions of solidarity and twinning of Ortega and Murillo towards Fernández joins others such as those sent after the attempt that the former president would have suffered in September of this 2022.
Fernández, 69 years old and who in principle enjoys immunity until December 2023 due to his position in the Executive, has the right to appeal the sentence before higher courts.
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In this process, irregularities were judged in the concession of 51 public works to firms of the businessman Lázaro Báez during the governments of the late Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) in the southern province of Santa Cruz, the political cradle of the kirchnerism.
In addition to sentencing Cristina Fernández, the court also imposed a 6-year prison sentence for Lázaro Báez, the former Secretary of Public Works José López and the former head of the National Highway Directorate Nelson Periotti.
For her part, Cristina Fernández assured that the sentence imposed against her originated from a “parastatal judicial mafia” and reiterated her innocence in this process due to irregularities in the concession of road works.
