The ex-president Jose “Pepe” Mujica praised the Argentine vice president, Cristina Kirchnerlast night during an international meeting of the Puebla Group held at the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), in the city of Buenos Airesorganized as a show of support for the Peronist leader.
“I’ve known her for years and I’ve argued and agreed and fought. And she is a wonderful old woman“Mujica said to the C5N mobile, to correct himself smiling:” A lady, not an old woman, is going to offend me.
The CCK hosted a massive event, in which the ex-presidents also participated Evo Morales (Bolivia), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Ernest Samper (Colombia), Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (Spain) and the Chilean and coordinator of Grupo Puebla Marco Enriquez-Ominamito denounce the “lawfare” against Cristina Kirchner.
The vice president herself was in charge of closing the meeting of the political and academic forum convened under the title “Popular will and democracy. From the military party to the judicial party, threats to democracy” within the framework of the III World Forum on Human Rights inaugurated on Tuesday by the Argentine president, Alberto Fernandez.
Asked about the legal proceedings against Kirchner – who was sentenced to 6 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office – José Mujica assured that “justice straysis far from being objective and one needs to recover a little confidence in Justice”.
During his presentation, the former Uruguayan president considered that “the first human right, the first of all, is the right to life.” “Life is a daily matter for each of us, perhaps we do not give it the intellectual value it has,” he said.
And he recalled that in Kyoto, “more than 30 years ago, men of science said that climatic phenomena were going to be” more frequent and intense. “And it is being fulfilled. It was not science that failed, it failed politics, which did not live up to the responsibility that lay ahead. Politics did not fight for the future of life,” Mujica stressed at a time when Uruguay is facing one of the greatest droughts in its history.
Source: Ambito
