Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner published this morning a video on her Twitter account showing the precise moment in which her office was attacked yesterday by the organizations that were protesting in front of Congress in rejection of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund, which finally It was approved by a large majority in the Deputies, but it had the negative vote of the hardest wing of Kirchnerism. In the images you can see how the windows explode with the stones thrown by the protesters and how her office was left.
The tweet was titled “Again… immense sorrow” and is accompanied by a story that Cristina herself makes about the events. “Today, as never before, I remembered Néstor’s words regarding the International Monetary Fund, when he said ‘he always acted as a promoter and vehicle of policies that caused poverty and pain in the Argentine people'”.
This is the full account of the former president:
Today is March 11.
Yesterday afternoon, when the Chamber of Deputies began the treatment of a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund to finance the loan that Mauricio Macri requested from that organization for 57 billion dollars, we were in my office in the Senate presidency, in the National Congress, Senator Oscar Parrilli, Senator Anabel Fernández Sagasti, Deputy Máximo Kirchner and whoever is speaking to you.
At that time, in the Plaza de los dos Congresos, a massive political mobilization was taking place against the Monetary Fund’s economic plan, occupying the entire plaza and Avenida de Mayo until July 9.
A few minutes after a burning of the initials of the International Monetary Fund with tires began on the corner of Hipólito Yrigoyen and Entre Ríos, a small group of protesters began an intense stone attack against Congress.
The images you are seeing now are those of my office after the stones.
Paradoxically, it was my office that was attacked.
The office of the one who stood up to the Vulture Funds, who kept the International Monetary Fund out of the country, fulfilling the legacy of my colleague Néstor Kirchner, and who also built the Frente de Todos with his decision, which allowed Mauricio Macri to be defeated.
Paradoxically or intentionally…
Before Vice President and President, I was several times Senator of the Nation but I always was and will be a political activist.
I had to see, since the recovery of democracy in 1983, scenes of violence always linked to that body and above all to the policies it imposed on the different governments.
Today as I never remembered Nestor’s words regarding the International Monetary Fund, when he said “it always acted as a promoter and vehicle of policies that caused poverty and pain in the Argentine people.”
Again… immense shame.
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