After receiving Lula da Silva’s visit, the leftist leader denounced the current situation facing the Argentine people.

On Thursday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva visited former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez at her home in Buenos Aires, where she has been under house arrest since June 17.

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After the visit, the leftist leader published a lengthy message on social media denouncing the current situation facing the Argentine people. Her full statement is presented below.

“Today we welcomed our comrade Lula da Silva to my home, where I am under house arrest by order of a judiciary that long ago stopped pretending to be impartial. It has become a political party serving economic power.

Lula was also persecuted. He too was a victim of lawfare and was imprisoned. They also tried to silence him. They failed. He returned, elected by the Brazilian people, with his head held high. That’s why today his visit was much more than a personal gesture — it was a political act of solidarity.

The eyes of the world are closely watching as Argentina descends into authoritarianism under the administration of President Javier Milei — a reality we can define as low-intensity state terrorism.

It took tremendous effort to build Argentine democracy, and we cannot allow it to be dismantled step by step. And yet, that very democracy is being hollowed out from within by a government that calls itself “libertarian” — but only grants freedom to the wealthiest.

We see it daily in violations of press freedom. Reporters Without Borders has already pointed out that Argentina experienced the world’s steepest decline in press freedom, dropping 47 places in the two years of Milei’s presidency. And that was before photojournalist Pablo Grillo was left in a coma for documenting the pensioners’ protest.

What came next? A secret national intelligence plan that authorizes domestic surveillance of anyone who “undermines confidence” in the official narrative. And who decides what undermines confidence? Caputo? Karina? Conan?

As if that weren’t enough, now Security Minister Bullrich wants the federal police to monitor people’s social media posts without a warrant and to carry out preventive detentions without any actual crime. Complain about how the country is being run? Make fun of the government on social media? Then maybe the police will come knocking. We’ve already seen this happen in other countries — and now it seems they want to import that too.

This is the authoritarian drift. This is the low-intensity state terrorism Argentina is experiencing. They are turning the country into a continental experiment. Just as Pinochet made Chile the laboratory of the Chicago Boys, now they want our country to be the testing ground for Milei and the Caputo Boys. They’re using the same playbook: starvation wages, total privatization, and complete submission to the International Monetary Fund.

But it won’t work. They know they can’t pull it off if the people speak up, organize, and fight back. Just like the hundreds of thousands who took to Mayo Square on June 18 — they were too many to be intimidated. And we Argentines are too many to be left isolated, frightened, and watched.

We have something they will never have: a collective “we” that carries the size and the history of the Argentine people — a people that neither falls silent nor stops. That “we” always comes back. Lula proved it in Brazil, and we will prove it here, too.

P.S., Hey Milei… With the polar cold wave we’re going through… What do you do? The only thing you can come up with is adding another 6.4% hike to utility bills? Tariffs are sky-high, heaters are off, and you’re bragging about doing a good job at MERCOSUR? Come on, man… keep blowing smoke.

Too bad smoke doesn’t keep us warm.”

teleSUR/ JF

Source: CFK

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