1 of 1 Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel in August 2023 Photo: Agustin Marcarian/Portal Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel in August 2023 Photo: Agustin Marcarian/Portal
Elected this Sunday (19) as the new Vice President of Argentina, Victoria Villarruel, 48, comes from a family of Argentine military personnel and has in the past marked the era of military dictatorship in the country, which lasted between 1976 and 1983 as a “war” against communism .
She is the new vice president Daughter of Army Lieutenant Colonel Eduardo VillarruelVeteran of the Falklands War, against the United Kingdom in 1982. About 650 Argentinians died and 255 British, who emerged victorious and now control the socalled Falkland Islands.
Next to his father, an army man Villarruel’s grandfather is Rear Admiral Laurio Hedelvio Destéfanifrom the Navy.
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Villarruel is founder and president of the civil association Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims (from the Spanish acronym CELTYV), which equates the crimes committed by military governments during Argentina’s dictatorship with the actions of armed antiregime groups.
In September, the thencandidate led a tribute to what she called “other victims” of terrorism promoted by guerrilla organizations before the 1976 military coup.
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The new vice president’s position contradicts more than a thousand court convictions for crimes against humanity against military personnel during the dictatorship. What’s more, Villarruel plans to launch an audit to reverse the compensation paid by the Argentine state to victims of the military dictatorship
“It is time to rehabilitate those who fought against the terrorist groups that tried to introduce communism in Argentina and who are today unjustly imprisoned by a distorted justice system manipulated by the left,” Villarruel said at a event in September.