Militants from the Tupac Amaru group concluded three days of camping in the Plaza de Mayo, to ask for the release of Milagro Sala and celebrated that the search for a “political solution” to the situation of the Jujuy social leader has been agreed with the national government.
“On Wednesday we started in a difficult situation, with a closed door. For Milagro, the only chance to put an end to the unfair persecution is a pardon. On Thursday it was agreed in the meeting with the President that we will work with a joint team with lawyers from organizations and the government to create an institutional framework” to achieve his freedom, Tupac spokesman Alejandro “Coco” Garfagnini said at a press conference in Plaza de Mayo.
This Thursday, human rights organizations demanded from the President a “political solution” to the situation in Salawho remains detained in Jujuy, affirmed that the head of state “really has the will to pardon her” and stated that “he promised to find a solution.”
This was reported in statements to the press by Eduado Tavani, from the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH), and the referent of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Línea Fundadora, Taty Almeida, after a meeting they held with the head of state at Casa de Government agencies of the Human Rights Board.
The meeting took place at Government House after last week the Supreme Court of Justice upheld the 13-year prison sentence imposed on Sala in the “Pibes Villeros” case, in which she was accused of “illicit association”. and “defrauding the State.”
Since last Wednesday, members of Tupac Amaru have camped out in Plaza de Mayo in the framework of a protest that was accompanied by the Autonomous CTA and organizations such as Sovereignty Izquierda Popular, Espacio Puebla, Movimiento Popular La Dignidad, Corriente Aníbal Verón and Movimiento Popular Liberación, among others.
Yesterday, on the second day of the camp, the organizations present carried out an open radio and accompanied the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in their traditional round on Thursdays.
Likewise, the group of Priests in Option for the Poor made a living nativity scene with the participation of Father Francisco “Paco” Olveira and, later, the singer from Jujuy Bruno Ari.
“The legal framework that specialists and lawyers from the Foreign Ministry are suggesting has to do with the fact that international human rights law establishes that when violations of access to justice are committed in a provincial state, the federal state is co-responsible. With which, The lack of access to justice in the province of Jujuy is the responsibility of the national State and that allows it to repair this situation,” the vice president of the APDH, María Elena Naddeo, told Télam.
According to Naddeo, “the violations are documented and handed over to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, that must be included in a regulation through a presidential decree and would annul the judicial decision, which would allow a pardon.”
The impossibility of pardon
This Thursday the President said -in interviews given by FM Radio Con Vos and C5N- that he cannot grant Sala a pardon because these are sentences ordered by provincial courts.
“I am convinced that the entire process was riddled with an inadmissible political overtone. The solution does not involve a pardon because the Constitution prohibits me from pardoning sentences handed down by provincial courts. I could only do so in sentences handed down in federal jurisdictions”affirmed the President days ago.
For his part, national deputy Hugo Yasky (Frente de Todos) -also present at today’s press conference- assured that the joint work that will be carried out with the national government is “wonderful news, which allows us to close the year by returning to recover self-esteem and pride in being Argentine”.
“We have to recover the pride of being part of the popular movement. If we save ourselves, we will all save ourselves together and this is demonstrated today by Milagro Sala,” said the legislator.
