Lawfare: Judicial & Legislative Coups in Argentina and Peru

TODAY’S EPISODE: Lawfare: Judicial & Legislative Coups
in Argentina and Peru


Joining me today is my friend and co-host Raul
Burbano. Raul is the Program Director for Common Frontiers
based in Toronto. Common Frontiers is a WTF broadcast
partner


GUESTS: Aníbal Ibarra and Daniela Ortiz.


Anibal is the former Mayor of Buenos Aires and Federal
Prosecutor. Anibal is currently a criminal defense lawyer and
member of the Broad Front political party.  


Daniela Ortiz is a peruvian artist and antiracist militant who
lives in Urubamba, Peru. She was part of the Campaign against
immigrant detention centers in Catalunya from 2009 until 2012,
The Espacio del Inmigrante in Barcelona from 2012 until 2016,
during the pandemic she was part of the Red de Cuidados Anti
Racistas in Barcelona and was founder of the Madrecitas Colectiva
against judicialization of motherhood and childhood of migrant
families and the removal of custodies. She now is part of the
Frente de Lucha Materna in Peru where she currently lives.


BACKGROUND:


Argentina:


On Tuesday, December 6, An Argentine court sentenced Vice
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to six years in jail and
disqualified her from holding public office in a high-profile
corruption case.


The vice president, who has temporary immunity due to her current
role, will not face immediate prison time and is expected to
appeal the sentence, with the case likely to spend years winding
through higher courts.


Technically, she could run for office while the appeals are
pending, but she said on Tuesday that she "would not be a
candidate for anything" in next year's general election.


Fernandez de Kirchner, who served as president for two terms
between 2007 and 2015 and commands rock-star crowds of
supporters, faced charges of alleged corruption in the awarding
of public works during her presidency


The court acquitted her on another count of "illicit
association".


Peru:


The crisis in Peru has reached the streets, after Congress
dismissed former President Pedro Castillo on December 7 for
wanting to dissolve Parliament and establish an emergency
government.


 The appointment of Vice President Dina Boluarte as
President of the Republic, far from bringing calm, has led to a
wave of protests in Lima and in the interior of the country.


Faced with this situation, Boluarte declared yesterday a 30-day
state of emergency throughout the country and presented to
Congress a proposal to advance the general elections to April
2024, two years ahead of schedule. Now possibly 2023.


Many defend the return of Castillo -now detained in preventive
detention-, but there are at least three other claims on the
streets.
The resignation of President Dina BoluarteClosing of the
Current CongressA Constituent Assembly




FOLLOW OUR GUESTS


Raul Burbano


Anibal Ibarra


Daniela Ortiz


Frente de Lucha Materna


ADDITIONAL LINKS:


Argentina's Vice President Faces a "Media-Judicial Firing Squad"


Peru Goes to the Polls: 2021 Presidential Elections


Pedro Castillo Assumes the Presidency of Peru





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