Is Cristina Fernandez a Victim of a Political Persecution?

August 15, 2018

 

The Argentine Senate was unable to debate the authorization to search the home of former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner due to the lack of a quorum. Editorial Note

For the journalist Stella Calloni, the same script used in Brazil against Lula da Silva is being repeated against the former president of Argentina. On Wednesday the Argentine Senate will debate on the authorization to search the homes of the former president and current senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

The ruling party will try to get the vote on the judicial measure that was requested by federal judge Claudio Bonadio. The magistrate issued the request in the framework of the case investigating the payment of bribes in public works during part of the Kirchner governments. CFK has denounced the attack against her saying that she is the victim of a political persecution in which “the Judiciary, the Executive and the hegemonic media” are acting in coordination.

In a telephone interview with teleSUR, Calloni said that since the arrival of Mauricio Macri in late 2015, at least six cases have been brought against CFK, which is a clear sign of  judicial and political harassment campaign of the former president. Calloni said the government has used judges and prosecutors trained by the United States to advance against CFK and ex government officials of her administration.

Since the 1990s, the strategy of infiltrating judicial institutions with U.S.-influenced judges and officials has been devised as a weapon to prosecute progressive left politicians and leaders of social movements under the smoke screen of charges of corruption.

Calloni went on to say that an essential ingredient of this imperial strategy has been the role played by the hegemonic media to promote a fake narrative which is exactly what happened in Brazil against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and now CFK.

The journalist warned in the interview that both political leaders are victims of a fourth-generation war in which the media are used as weapons by the judiciary and political sectors to create a matrix of unfavorable opinion.

The same scheme is being repeated as in Brazil.  CFK has a popular and positive image in the polls for the 2019 elections; the government’s plan is to prevent the former president from even achieving her candidacy in the electoral process.

According to Calloni, the courts are proceeding without any evidence against former government officials of CFK and leaders of social movements who are confronting President Macri’s neoliberal policies and social decline.

Cristina Fernandez could bring the prosecution to international bodies, but several of those agencies are managed by the U.S. so a measure in favor of the senator on that level is nearly impossible, said Calloni.  She concluded by saying that to stop all this it will take the intervention of  a significant social and popular mobilization

https://www.telesurtv.net/news/cristina-fernandez-victima-persecusion-judicial-argentina-20180815-0031.html

Source: teleSur, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau