The vice president targeted the former president for recommending the series in which the former head of Montoneros, Mario Firmenich, appears.
The vice president Victoria Villarruel harshly criticized the public appearance of Mario Firmenich, former Montonero leader, in the series “Argentina 78”and questioned the former president Cristina Kirchner for recommending the documentary. “Cristina, why don’t you go watch this fourth-rate series but imprisoned in Ezeiza?” he told her.
On November 27, the four-episode miniseries was released on the Disney + platform in which the coexistence of the 1978 World Cup and the last civil-military dictatorship is reconstructed through testimonies, that is, the main sporting event worldwide and the horror represented in the repression and disappearance of people.
The documentary has archival material and interviews with protagonists of the time. Among some people who appear in the trailer are the then leader of Montoneros, Mario Firmenich.
“This weekend I saw the documentary “Argentina ’78” that premiered a few days ago. In four unmissable short chapters, the soccer World Cup that took place in our country in 1978 is recounted, in text and context, where Argentina won its first world championship,” said the former president on her “X” account and added: “If you like football, you can’t miss it. If you like history, neither. And if you like football and history, no way.”
Villarruel used a promotional clip of the series, with first-person testimonies from former Montoneros commander Mario Firmenich, to express his indignation at the premiere of, in his words, a “shitty series” that gives voice to “terrorists” and harshly attack the former president for recommending her on her social networks.
“For Firmenich the past is always the present. “We are talking about terrorism and this terrorist is free and pontificating after murdering innocents,” the vice president said on her X account.
“And for more caradurez “A former president who should be imprisoned starts recommending this shitty series about what happened in the 70s. (Shit is understood as the total indignation at seeing criminals who should be imprisoned, enjoying their freedom),” he continued. “Cristina? “Why don’t you go see this fourth-rate series in Ezeiza?” Villarruel concluded.
In the fragment that aroused Villarruel’s irritation, Firmenich He defined Montoneros as a “political-military organization” marked by “the ideology of the Peronist movement, which is popular revolutionary nationalism.” According to him, the existence of the guerrilla political formation was due to “the practical exercise of the right to resist oppression.”
“Our political objective was always to achieve a political victory against the dictatorship. It’s not that we were going to take power with weapons, no. We were going to say: ‘We are going to be there as long as you are there,'” he clarified. Firmenich in the extract.
Source: Ambito
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