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South America's leftwing leaders support CFK after court ruling
Lula and Petro called CFK to express their solidarity Most of South America's leftwing leaders expressed their solidarity with former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), whose 6-year prison sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court (CSJN) earlier this week.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva telephoned CFK to highlight her serenity while urging her to remain strong, drawing from his own experience of imprisonment on corruption charges later overturned. “I called comrade Cristina Kirchner this afternoon and expressed my solidarity,” said the Brazilian president on X.. “I spoke to her about the importance of staying strong in these difficult times”, he added. “I observed with satisfaction the serenity and determination with which Cristina faces this adverse situation and her determination to continue fighting,” Lula further noted.
Other leaders, including Colombia's Gustavo Petro, Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, Cuba's Miguel Díaz-Canel, Bolivia's Luis Arce, Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum, and Chile's Gabriel Boric, also voiced support, denouncing the sentence as political persecution and “lawfare” aimed at undermining leftist leaders.
Petro linked the ruling to a broader threat to Latin American democracy, while Maduro called it a “judicial terrorist coup.”
“I just spoke with Cristina Kirchner in Argentina. My solidarity with her who is on her way to prison,” said Petro. “We are facing difficult times,” with “the democratic spring of Latin America in danger.”
The Colombian leader also accused the governments where today “the extreme right and right wing are ascending” of “encouraging democratic ruptures” and has taken the opportunity to link what happened in Argentina with the situation in his country, where “they are already touting a coup d'état and it is not a speech.”
“People of the extreme right wing in Colombia and the United States are holding fluid conversations to achieve it,” he assured.
Former leaders like Evo Morales and Rafael Correa, along with Spain's Podemos, echoed similar sentiments.
Sheinbaum, Boric, Lula, and Petro are reportedly preparing a joint statement to repudiate the ruling, following a precedent set by a 2022 statement against Kirchner's judicial persecution.
The Puebla Group and Brazil's PT also backed Kirchner, framing the sentence as an attack on left-wing forces and regional sovereignty.
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Read all comments““I called comrade Cristina Kirchner this afternoon and expressed my solidarity,” said the Brazilian president on X”....
Jun 12th, 2025 - 03:53 pm +2“Comrade” ? where are we, in Russia ??? (but that's another story...)
Anyway, to be expected, the most corrupt Brazilian politician we have ever known, expresses his solidarity with Argentina's biggest crook.....(birds of a feather...LOL)
“the most corrupt Brazilian politician we have ever known”
Jun 16th, 2025 - 12:01 am 0An opinion of a revealed fascist.
50 Jack Bauer; “Military taking over again, ….. they did it to prevent Brazil from being handed over to the communists. ... the Military , I hope, would be there again to save Brazil
http ://en.mercopress.com/2015/01/26/brazil-supportive-of-mercosur-as-long-as-it-does-not-turn-into-a-burden/comments#comment378210
“Lula’s imprisonment one of the worst mistakes in Brazil’s legal history,” wrote Justice Dias Toffoli in ruling which lowers the final curtain on US-orchestrated Car Wash/Lava Jato Investigation, which helped remove President Dilma Rousseff, jailed her likely successor Lula, and elected neo fascist Jair Bolsonaro.”
Dear Terence,
Jun 17th, 2025 - 05:28 pm 0Thanks for replying to my comment with your usual, stale rhetoric.
What “Justice” Toffoli writes “- what a joke, no justice there - is not to be taken seriously...a mediocre commie and ex-PT lawyer, who was pushed into the Supreme court by nine-fingers.
His record as a ”Justice” is hardly something to be proud of - his release of loads of confessed criminals in the Lavajato investigation, is just one of his great deeds.
He regularly rules on cases defended by a Law firm at which his wife is a partner, yet he sees no reason to recuse himself. But that's how the PT does things.
You insist on calling me a fascist, but please note, not all centre-right conservatives are fascists. On the other hand, you have never denied being a communist.....by definition a compulsive liar.
I presume you have been following the INSS scandal in Brazil....nine-finger's Minister of Social Security, Carlos Lupi, and his replacement, plus others appointed by the PT, responsible for the cover-up of the theft of roughly USD 1 billion, discounted from retirees' pensions, and channelled to leftist unions.
Despite starting during Bolsonaro's mandate, when it was denounced, nothing was done about it.
Beginning 2023, the embezzlement issue surfaced again - Nine-fingers, Carlos Lupi and several other high-ranking PeTistas were informed about it, yet decided to sweep it under the carpet - until they could no longer hide it. Just fyi, nine-finger's brother's union, of which he is vice-president, received USD 20 million of the embezzled money. All documented.
Instead of going after the Unions which received the embezzled funds, the government (nine-fingers) has said it will pay the pensioners back with funds from the National Treasury.....so, not being enough for the pensioners having been assaulted in broad daylight, the taxpayer has to pay for it....of course, to go after nine-finger's brother, would be political persecution.
Have a nice day.
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