Peronist militants turned a mass in Buenos Aires into a political act against the president of Argentina, Javier Milei.
According to information from the Clarín newspaper, the incident occurred on Sunday (9) at the Santa Cruz Church, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Cristóbal, during a mass in honor of Nora Cortiñas, co-founder of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo movement, who died last month .
A video posted on social media shows several of those present at the ceremony singing the slogan “The homeland is not for sale”, sung by Peronist activists in demonstrations against the Basic Law or Bus Law, a project to reduce the State and deregulate the Argentine economy. presented by Milei, which will be voted on in the Senate this Wednesday (12).
The song was sung at the moment the priest raised the chalice to consecrate the wine. The images show some altar boys clapping to the music and worshipers making a V with their fingers, a Peronist symbol.
At X, the group La Néstor Kirchner, a subdivision of the Peronist youth movement La Cámpora, joked. “In the churches, they are saying: ‘The country is not for sale!’, more precisely, in the Santa Cruz Parish, in the city of Buenos Aires. In a house of God, a message to the ‘forces of heaven’”, wrote the group.
During the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83), the Santa Cruz Church was a refuge for relatives of politically disappeared people, but was the target of infiltration by the military, which in December 1977 resulted in the kidnapping of nine people, including two nuns. French.
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