Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner was the target of an attack when she arrived at her home in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires last night. 35-year-old Brazilian Fernando Sabag Montiel is held responsible for the threat. Brazilian sociologist Carolina Peterli, who lives in Buenos Aires to do her doctorate studying women in the slums of Argentina, UOL News He pointed out that violence has increased in Argentina.
“According to me [o atentado] escalation of violence established here is important [na Argentina]. The temperature has risen a lot in the last week. Since last week, when the City Police stationed on the doorstep of Cristina’s house on the orders of Larreta, the governor of the city of Buenos Aires, this created a very strong tension among the fans. [de Cristina] and the police themselves and causing the temperature to get very high during the week. When the police weren’t there, we didn’t have any records of clashes or disturbances, but from then on, the heat really starts to rise and tensions escalate between Cristina’s supporters and the Buenos Aires City Police.”
At the time of participation UOL NewsPeterli also drew attention to the machismo of Argentine society, which saw Kirchner’s role in his political project in trying to privilege the working class and end inequality as an insult to traditional values.
“The figure of Cristina is a much-controversial figure precisely because she is a very powerful woman, not only as a vice president but also as a senator and who counts it. The agenda of women in power spaces. This is seen as an insult to the tendency of traditional politics to reproduce itself.” .
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“The political world needs to open its eyes to this lone wolves reality, which is encouraged by the N movements connected via the internet today. We don’t see politics paying attention to that,” he said. UOL Madeleine Lacsko about the attack on Kirchner.
in attendance UOL Newsit also paralleled the case of Mexican President Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, who was assassinated in the city of Tijuana during a rally.
“He’s going to have to start seeing this more in politics because these movements that promote lone wolves’ action are much more complex than organized crime. Now people who are already perverts have met online and have already entered the world of politics,” he concluded.
Attack on Cristina Kirchner: Argentina moves to support vice president after gun attack
“Alberto Fernández made a call for citizenship in his speech yesterday, and yesterday we had demonstrations from all sectors of politics, even from opponents of Cristina, and it shows unity against the escalation of violence and an attack on Argentine democracy,” said sociologist Carolina Peterli. .
Today, Argentine protesters, where political parties, trade unions, social movements and human rights organizations come together, began to gather in the main cities of the country to protest. The ruling coalition Frente de Todos (Peronist, centre-left) has called for a march to Plaza de Mayo “in defense of democracy” on a day that has been declared a national holiday.
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