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Cristina Fernández says that she suffered violence for being a woman and refers to aggressions to Fabiola Yáñez
Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández, between 2007 and 2015, pointed out on Wednesday, during the trial for the attempted murder against her, that she suffered violence for being a woman and compared images of her published in the press with the photos of Fabiola Yáñez after being possibly beaten by former President Alberto Fernández.
“When a woman exercises power and does not do so in the orientation that the power sectors in Argentina want, it generates much more resistance and much more violence than men,” the former president considered during her statement before the Oral Federal Criminal Court No. 6 of Argentina, of the Comodoro Py Building in Buenos Aires, in the trial for the attack perpetrated when she was vice president of Fernández.
During his testimony, Fernández showed a series of covers of the magazine Noticias and a cartoon of him published in the newspaper Clarín, which, he said, exhibited the violence exercised against her during her years in the Presidency.
The first of them read ‘El goce de Cristina’ and an explicitly sexual allusion, something that she highlighted attacked not her “status as president or politician, but directly as a woman.”
A second cover showed it on a cross, in a pose similar to the crucifixion of Jesus and accompanied by the message ‘Vía Crisis’, while in a third she was seen with a black eye and titled ‘The business of hitting Cristina’.
“Even with a black eye, look at what current context, right?” Fernández said, comparing that publication with the photos of former first lady Fabiola Yánez recently disseminated by the local press as part of the complaint of sexist violence against Alberto Fernández.
In one of those photographs you can see Yáñez with a black eye.
“As you will see, everything is always repeated,” added the former president, who also showed a caricature of hers published in the newspaper Clarín in which an image of her with a black eye is repeated.
“None of the feminists believed that they were assaulting me because of my condition as a woman. Never, never, never, never said anything about this. She was the first female president elected, I am still the only woman elected president. I suffered from these aggressions in my capacity as a woman,” Fernández denounced.
In addition, he stressed that “no man president, who there were, was caricatured in that way,” he commented that “the destruction of machismo and misogyny in Argentina is not a minor issue” and emphasized: “I never heard a president being treated as sexist and misogynist, when many have been and are.”
These statements coincide with the progress of the trial against the former president after the complaint by his ex-partner, who on Tuesday reiterated before the Justice that he hit her several times and suffered serious injuries.
Fernández referred to the case on social networks, where he published that the images of Yáñez “allow us to verify, once again and dramatically, the situation of the woman in any relationship, whether it develops in a palace or in a hut.”
“Personally and as a woman who has been the object (and continues to be) of the worst verbal and political violence, up to the maximum experience of physical violence, as was the assassination attempt of September 1, 2022, I express my solidarity with all women victims of any type of violence, without forgetting the words that (Pope) Francis told me the day after that event: ‘all physical violence is always preceded by verbal violence,’” concluded the former president’s message about the case.
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Chile enters runoff campaign with Kast leading and Jara seeking a last-minute comeback
Chile’s presidential runoff campaign for the December 14 election kicked off this Sunday, with far-right candidate José Antonio Kast entering the race as the clear favorite in the polls, while left-wing contender Jeannette Jara faces an uphill scenario, hoping for a comeback that some experts describe as “a miracle.”
The final polls released in Chile—published before the mandatory blackout on survey dissemination—give Kast, an ultraconservative former lawmaker running for president for the third time, a lead of between 12 and 16 points. His opponent, the communist former minister in Gabriel Boric’s current administration, is weighed down not only by the government’s low approval ratings but also by a fragmented electorate.
Although Jeannette Jara received the most votes in the first round with 26.9%, her lack of alliances beyond the left makes it difficult for her to expand her support. Kast, who secured 23.9%, has already brought key figures on board: ultralibertarian Johannes Kaiser (13.9%) and traditional right-wing leader Evelyn Matthei (12.4%), both now backing his candidacy.
Analysts note that although Kast’s support base consolidates more than 50% of the electorate, it does not guarantee an automatic transfer of votes. Populist economist Franco Parisi, who placed third with 19.7%, emerges as the major wildcard. His party, the People’s Party (PDG), is set to decide this Sunday through an internal consultation whether to endorse one of the two finalists.
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Trump says asylum decision freeze will remain in place “for a long time”
U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that the suspension of decisions on asylum applications—implemented as part of his order to “halt” immigration from third-world countries following Wednesday’s shooting in Washington—will remain in effect “for a long time.”
The president declined to specify how long the freeze, imposed last Friday by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), would last. The suspension affects individuals waiting for an asylum ruling from that agency, though it does not apply to cases handled by U.S. immigration courts.
The delay is part of a series of measures enacted by the Trump Administration after a shooting on Wednesday in which an Afghan national allegedly opened fire on the National Guard in Washington, D.C., killing one officer and leaving another in critical condition.
Trump has ordered a permanent halt to immigration from 19 countries classified as “third-world.” He also indicated on Sunday that “possibly” more nations could be added to the list.
“These are countries with high crime rates. They are countries that do not function well… that are not known for success, and frankly, we don’t need people from those places coming into our country and telling us what to do,” Trump said, adding: “We don’t want those people.”
USCIS had already announced on Thursday a “rigorous review” of green cards held by migrants from 19 “countries of concern,” including Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti.
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Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy military as deadly asian floods kill over 1,000
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel on Monday to assist victims of the devastating floods that have killed more than a thousand people across Asia in recent days.
A series of weather events last week triggered prolonged torrential rains across Sri Lanka, parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, southern Thailand, and northern Malaysia. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said Monday in North Sumatra that “the priority now is to deliver the necessary aid as quickly as possible.”
“There are several isolated villages that, with God’s help, we will be able to reach,” he added. Subianto also stated that the government had deployed helicopters and aircraft to support relief operations.
Floods and landslides have claimed 502 lives in Indonesia, with a similar number still missing.
This marks the highest death toll from a natural disaster in Indonesia since 2018, when an earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than 2,000 people.
The government has sent three military ships carrying aid and two hospital vessels to the hardest-hit regions, where many roads remain impassable.
In the village of Sungai Nyalo, located about 100 kilometers from Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, floodwaters had receded by Sunday, leaving homes, vehicles, and crops coated in thick mud.
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