More than 250 women leaders from 17 countries signed a document in support of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for considering that the vice president is the victim of “blatant persecution” and denounced that the cause called Vialidad is “one more chapter of the lawfare strategy” in Latin America.
Among the signatures are that of the former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff; the Colombian senator piety cordoba; the spanish journalist River Pillar; the philosopher Chantal Moufeethe Minister of the Presidency of Bolivia, Mary Nela Prada and the referent of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Taty Almeyda; among other.
The accompaniment was carried out through a declaration that bears the rubric of the recognized women in which it is affirmed that the persecution of the vice president “is due to her status as a woman and leader who has confronted sectors of power and has broken into politics to expand rights for the majority of the Argentine people”.
“We also know that the reactionary right-wingers have displayed a very particular misogynistic violence against the compañeras who lead and lead progressive and popular forces,” the document states.
In that same sense, it points against “the articulation” of “big media, judicial corporation, economic groups and anti-democratic right to attack the popular processes and their leaderships.”
“In the case of Cristina, based on a judicial process that lacks any supporting evidence, an extraordinary media campaign of lynching has been mounted with the aim of banning her politically in order to weaken the action of the popular movement as a whole and democracy in the region”, highlights the letter.
The document was also signed by the Minister of Gender, Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta; the senators Juliana Di Tullio Y Anabel Fernandez Sagasti; the deputy Victoria Tolosa Paz; and the spokesperson for the Presidency, Gabriela Ceruti.
