Argentina seconds from a disaster. The assassination attempt on Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner not only splits the history of the past 40 years of democratic life. What happens is not just about the ultimate action of an unstable person. Whether I act alone or not is not yet known. The only thing certain at the moment was that the pistol did not work, but the failed attack made the impossible possible: to once again place the possibility of death in this country for political reasons.
Context of the attack
Tensions loomed over the horizon since Prosecutor Diego Luciani requested a 12-year prison sentence and Fernández de Kirchner’s permanent disqualification for considering him a “president”.illegal association” was linked to public works during their government (2007-15). The right-wing opposition and a section of the media welcomed the request. Francisco Sánchez, deputy of PRO, the party of former president Mauricio Macri, arrived. Statesmen convicted of corruption cases death penalty. Peronism, the ruling party, admitted that Luciani lacked evidence and the court was biased, and was part of a conspiracy aimed at banning the vice president for the 2023 election, as was the case with Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula in 2018. silva He claimed to have a “target”.pullWithout the media and the judiciary knowing this, weeks later he fired two shots in front of his face.
days of reckoning
From then on, hundreds of Cristina’s followers became a constant vigil around your home. The police of the city of Buenos Aires ordered a violent evacuation. Abuse and beatings made no distinction between ordinary citizens and legislators. On some balconies of adjacent buildings, men in uniform filmed protesters, bringing back memories of other times when intelligence agents took pictures of political militants who were later killed or disappeared during the last military dictatorship (1976-83). There was a fear of climbing in the air. “The attack on Cristina Kirchner is the result of ‘they or us’,” said former Supreme Court minister Raúl Zaffaroni.
A history of hate
The great historians of Peronism, among them French Alain RouquiéConsider that the most intense emotional power in Argentina comes from those who oppose it at all costs. John Peron Between 1946 and his overthrow nine years later. Buenos Aires witnessed the most important bombardment of the civilian population after the war. guerrillaJune 16, 1955. In 1956, the military regime that overthrew Perón passed Law 4161, which prohibited the pronouncing of the names of the exiled general and his late wife, Eva Duarte. whose corpse came to be harassed. “Peronism would not have lasted so long had it not been for the incompetence of anti-Peronism,” Rouquié speculates. The emergence of Kirchnerism in 2003 only rekindled those sentiments that seemed to be a part of the past, especially after 2008, when the then president clashed with major agricultural producers over soybean income.
death drive
this return of peronismor to power, it took the anger of sectors of a right that took new forms at the end of 2019 to another dimension. Social networks have become one permanent drive assassinated during his presidency, even during the pandemic Alberto Fernandez “infection”. Summary trials were conducted in some walks. Funeral bags with the names of the leading figures of the government were left in front of the door of the Executive Headquarters. Fantasy is the order of the day. A few hours before the assassination attempt, Roberto Garcia MauritaniaA right-wing legislator, famous for marrying a prominent model, has proposed demolishing the iconic building of the Ministry of Social Development to “improve circulation”. There you can see two images of Eva Perón illuminated at night, unbearable for anti-Peronism. serious economic crisis of a country 40% poor and with the specter of collapse on the horizon, understanding the present is inevitable.
dangerous background
Dictator Pedro Eugenio AramburuResponsible for a series of executions of Peronists in 1956, he was abducted in 1970 and later executed by the nascent Montoneros guerrilla. Never before had a former president been assassinated in Argentina. But Latin America is not exempt from extremely serious cases. Luis Donaldo Colosio, candidate of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), ended his life by a gunshot wound to the head on March 23, 1994. Also on March 23, 1999, he was assassinated on Luis María street. Argaña, later Vice President of Paraguay. Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed in the middle of his election campaign in 2018. Evo Morales was on the verge of death after being ousted in November 2019. Lula decided to run his election campaign in a bulletproof vest. Now in Buenos Aires, where the word assassination doesn’t sound like a crazy fact.