Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Buenos Aires, June 17 – With one day remaining until Cristina Fernández learns the fate a judge will decide on how her prison sentence and political ban will be carried out, the former president continues to welcome political and social figures and personalities into her home.
During Monday, the vigil was maintained from morning until midnight. In the afternoon, a group of pastors and priests from the Argentine Ecumenical Roundtable visited her home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución.
The priest Francisco "Paco" Olivera told the Comuna Agency that he saw her "immensely strong, lucid and convinced. She told us, with the dignity of those who do not break, that even in prison they will not succeed in humiliating her".
In front of her building, religious leaders held an Ecumenical Celebration surrounded by hundreds of followers of the Peronist leader.
In it the priest Paco officiated a moving collective prayer, crowned by a Hail Mary that tears. In his voice broken by emotion, he thanked the Virgin for stopping the bullet that tried to take his life, described Comuna.
He referred to the assassination attempt two years ago when a Brazilian hitman pulled the trigger twice in his face, but the gun didn't fire. A column of Peronist youth marched from the Justicialist Party headquarters in the Balvanera neighborhood to Constitución, arriving at the intersection of Humberto 1º Avenue and Calle San José, after meeting with Máximo Kirchner, leader of La Campora and Secretary General of the PJ in the Province of Buenos Aires.
While thousands of followers were accompanying her on the street, Cristina also received referents from various human rights organizations in her home, including the Grandmothers and Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
Among other activities organized by the PJ (Party of the People's Party), a meeting was held on Monday to coordinate the international "Free Cristina" campaign, attended by Peronist leaders and supporters of this from several countries.
Demonstrations are taking place in several countries as part of the campaign in support of the former president.
“Defending Cristina is defending her people, democracy in Argentina. Wednesday will be a key day for the former president's fate and for many Argentines. The mobilization is intended to ensure her return home without any humiliation,” Gustavo Menéndez, Secretary of International Relations for the PJ, stated at the meeting.
This Tuesday, leaders of the General Confederation of Labor will hold a meeting with the leadership of the PJ at its headquarters, followed by another meeting with governors from several provinces.
Meanwhile, popular enthusiasm is growing for the march being planned for Wednesday to accompany Cristina from her home in Constitución to the courts in Comodoro Py. (Text and photos: PL)
