They repudiate a denialist event promoted by an organization chaired by Victoria Villarruel

In the last hours, controversy was generated because the candidate for vice president of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Victoria Villarruel, and the Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims (CELTYV) promoted a “tribute to the victims of terrorism” in the Buenos Aires Legislature next Monday. The invitation was made through the social networks of the CELTYV and it was explained that, in addition to Villarruel, the deputy Lucia Montenegro will be invited and Lorenza Ferrari, Graciela Saraspe and Arturo Larrabure will speak. Given this, a wide variety of human rights organizations expressed their rejection and requested the suspension because they considered it “provocative”. In fact, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line and other organizations will march next Monday to the Buenos Aires Legislature to repudiate this act. In addition, the Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights, Victoria Montenegro, sent a note to the 1st Vice-Chairperson. of the Legislature, Emmanuel Ferrario, where he expressed his “deep concern” because “it threatens social and cultural advances in the field of Human Rights.” Villarruel’s presence in Etchecolatz’s notebookThe vice presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza was linked to Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz in recent days, because his name appeared in the image shared by lawyer Guadalupe Godoy. The photo was of the notebook where the repressor prepared his defense for the first oral trial, after the declarations of unconstitutionality and nullity of the laws of Due Obedience and Final Point in 2006, and you could see his name written. In turn, it was recalled that the father of the leader was a soldier who participated in Operation Independence and served under the command of Aldo Rico in the Malvinas War. It was also highlighted that his uncle was arrested in 2015 for the torture and shooting of 16 people in the Vesuvius clandestine center, but was not tried because he was declared unable to face the process.

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