Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, returned this Monday (12) to social networks, from which she had been absent since hours before the attack she suffered on September 1, and linked a newspaper editorial to “hate speeches”. ” pointed out as reasons for the attack by the ruling party.
The former president (2007-2015) published the cover of the Argentine newspaper Clarín on Twitter and highlighted the title of the editorial in red: “The bullet that did not go out and the decision that will come out”, in reference to the attack from which she emerged unharmed and to the judgment that is answering for possible irregularities in the concession of public works during its mandates.
Cristina was attacked on September 1, when a Brazilian man who has lived in the country for 20 years tried unsuccessfully to fire a gun twice inches from her face, as the vice president greeted supporters holding a vigil. in front of his house, in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
The last time she was seen in public was the day after the attack, when she left her home and briefly greeted supporters outside the building.
The attack on Cristina Kirchner took place in a context of strong political tension between the ruling party and the opposition, which has grown since August 22, when a prosecutor asked for a 12-year prison sentence for the vice president, in addition to life the exercise of public office, within the scope of the trial that is responsible for corruption.
On the same night as the attack, Argentine President Alberto Fernández declared that democratic coexistence was “broken by the hate speech that has spread through different political, judicial and media spaces”.
Since then, several leaders linked to Cristina have linked the processing of cases in Justice and the attack suffered by the vice president with the “stigmatization” and “disqualification” that is done in the media and have even proposed a law to regulate “hate speeches” “, although it was later dropped.
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