The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, will participate on Monday in a meeting of the Puebla Group, in Buenos Aires, initially called as a debate on democracy, but which has been reformulated as an act of "solidarity" with the Argentine vice president , Cristina Fernández, sentenced this Tuesday in a case for corruption. The meeting, to which Díaz was invited a month ago, has been reformulated at the initiative of the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, the Puebla Group has reported. In addition to Alberto Fernández himself, the former president of the Spanish Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and four former presidents of Latin American countries will also attend.
The meeting will serve to "denounce" that Cristina Fernández "has been the victim of a political trial orchestrated by the right with operators of the Justice and the media to remove her from the democratic debate", in the words of the Puebla Group, a political and academic forum for left trend.
This week, an oral court sentenced the Argentine vice president, who governed the country between 2007 and 2015, to 6 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for defrauding the public administration in a case for irregularities in the concession of road works during the Kirchner governments (2003-2015).
After the verdict was announced, Cristina Fernández, 69, claimed to be a victim of the "judicial mafia" and a "parastatal" apparatus that does not forgive her for defending "people's rights" and announced that she does not intend to run for any position in the 2023 general elections.
The meeting, which will be held at the CCK Cultural Center in the Argentine capital, will include discussion tables led by Yolanda Díaz and former presidents Rodríguez Zapatero, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), José Mujica (Uruguay) and Ernesto Samper (Colombia).
The president of the Morena party of Mexico, Mario Delgado, and the lawyer of the Latin American Council of Justice and Democracy (Clajud), Gisele Ribocom, will also participate.
Various unions in Argentina have launched a call to demonstrate at the gates of the CCK Cultural Center, in parallel with the meeting of the Puebla Group. "Enough of the judicial mafia" is the slogan of the mobilization called, among other union groups, by the Central de Trabajadores de Argentina (CTA). "We convened together with other organizations from the popular field to demand the resignation of the Supreme Court of Justice and a democratic judicial reform," the Autonomous CTA highlighted this Thursday through the social network Twitter.
