Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Buenos Aires, July 7 – More than 100 union and human rights organizations today support the national campaign "Argentina with Cristina," as well as the international "Free Cristina," calling for an end to the former president's political proscription and house arrest.
More than a hundred referents of human rights bodies, commissions for the memory, areas of human rights of trade unions, universities, public administration and the legislative sphere, among other sectors launched the space " "Human Rights Against Proscription: Free Cristina", the Justicialist Party (PJ, for its acronym in Spanish) announced.
They created this initiative "with the aim of carrying out an action plan that will contribute to proving Cristina's innocence and achieving her prompt release," explains the PJ statement.
It is a multi-sector and multi-party forum that will publish a document signed by more than 100 human rights organizations in defense of democracy and against proscription, created at a meeting held that weekend at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.
Among other important defenders of civil liberties attended the Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Carmen Arias, president of the Mothers' Association of Plaza de Mayo, Horacio Pietragalla, Nora del Valle Giménez, Victoria Montenegro, Matías Moreno and Charly Pisoni.
The plenary session, which also included members of the trade union federations The Argentine Workers' Central Union, the General Confederation of Labor, and the Autonomous Argentine Workers' Central Union, concluded with the reading of a document in which it was stated that «The persecution of Cristina -with its plus of misogyny- is part of the violence and hatred directed toward those of us who think differently."
It is also a persecution—the document adds—"of those of us who defend human rights, of those of us who participate in political alternatives to the country's surrender model, of those of us who fight for a just country. The government of "Liberty" imposes hunger with repression and persecution, with cruelty and criminalization».
At the National University of La Plata (UNLP), participants in the First Latin American Congress "Public University and Contemporary Feminisms" reaffirmed the need to continue fighting for a feminist, democratic, popular, and Latin Americanist university and country.
"Free and without hate" was the closing message at the UNLP, where there was a call for a free Cristina and condemned the arrest and persecution of political activists in Argentina.
Prior to these two events, union leaders from 62 Peronist organizations held a plenary session at the headquarters of the Taxi Drivers' Union, where they denounced systematic violations of constitutional guarantees in Argentina, the debt with the IMF, and the link between adjustment policies and the imprisonment of Cristina Fernández.
During the debate, which included the presence of constitutional lawyer Eduardo Barcesat, the attendees agreed with the president of the National Justicialist Party (PJ, for its acronym in Spanish), Cristina Fernández, that "the social, democratic, and economic state has ceased to be a low-intensity democracy and has become low-intensity state terrorism."
"I am very proud that this meeting is taking place within the 62 Peronist Organizations, and that the issue of Cristina is being brought to the table," said national deputy Vanesa Siley, who has been promoting union actions as part of the "Argentina with Cristina" campaign.
Also present were Mariano Recalde, president of the Buenos Aires PJ, and Paco Manrique, national legislator and representative of the Union of Mechanics and Related Workers of Automotive Transport of the Argentine Republic. (Text and photo: PL)
