Various Latin American authorities on Wednesday continued to express their support for Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after Federal Court 2 sentenced her to six years in prison and a special life imprisonment for the Highway Cause.
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The day before, the vice-president had assured that “it is clear that the idea was to sentence me as they finally did today” and reiterated the irregularities in the trial against her.
Fernández previously denounced that Federal Court 2 was a firing squad and a verdict had been sung against him.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro dismissed the political and media persecution against Fernández, assuring that “sooner than later the truth will prevail and the voice of the Argentine people will be respected”.
For his part, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed his solidarity with the Vice-President, recalling that in this country we are well aware “how much damage this practice (lawfare) can do to democracy”.
“I support an impartial and independent judiciary for all and for the Argentine people,” Lula said.
Minha Solidarity with the Vice President of Argentina, @CFKArgentina. I saw your statement that you are a victim of lawfare and we here do not know well Brazil or how badly this practice can damage democracy. Torço for an impartial and independent judiciary for all people in Argentina.
— Lula (@LulaOficial)
December 7, 2022
For his part, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador described the event during his morning press conference as “political revenge on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández”.
“And it’s also an anti-democratic act because they don’t want her to take part in the electoral process, they disqualify her so she can run.” So, without a doubt, it’s a political issue and things like that of Lula in Brazil,” he said.
The day before, the President had expressed his solidarity with Fernández via his account on the social network Twitter.
I express my deepest solidarity with the Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández. I have no doubt that he is the victim of political revenge and an anti-democratic meanness of conservatism.
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_)
December 7, 2022
He supported Argentine President Alberto Fernández’s argument that this lawsuit against Fernández was an unlawful matter and claimed that the court that sentenced the former Argentine President was run by the oligarchy.
López Obrador underscored the honesty and dignity of the Vice President by not running for office. He estimated that through December 2023, with his work and in his position, he will help Peronism stay in power and prevent the truly corrupt from returning, the ones who bankrupted Argentina’s economy and left the country in debt Complicity of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United States (US), he said.
He recalled that former President Mauricio Macri and others responsible for the multi-million-dollar debt this nation owes to the IMF have not yet been brought to justice in a court of law, Fernández reiterated during his defense in the Highway case .
In return, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated the previous day’s message, rejecting “politically motivated court cases” and expressing his support for the Argentine vice-president.
Likewise, Sacha Llorenti, executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Treaty on International Trade (ALBA-TCP), sent a message of support to the vice president for being a “victim of judicial and media aggression.”
“Trying to silence the leaders of change is a serious act that harms the democracy and peoples of our America,” he said.
We express our solidarity and support to the Vice President of the Argentine Republic, @CFKArgentina, victims of judicial and media aggression. Pretending to silence the leaders of change is a serious act, damaging to democracy and the peoples of Our America. pic.twitter.com/FZkFcd7UkQ
— Sacha Llorenti (@SachaLlorenti)
December 7, 2022
Federal Supreme Court No. 2 Judges Jorge Gorini, Rodrigo Giménez and Andrés Basso read the verdict in which they condemned the 13 defendants in the Highway case, including Vice President Fernández, for the alleged “crime of fraudulent administration against the prosecution”. have condemned the public administration”.