CORREPI: Repression of the Government of Javier Milei in Argentina is only compared to the last dictatorship

Published at: 15/03/2024 08:29 PM

The Coordinator against Police and Institutional Repression (CORREPI), assured that the government of Javier Milei in Argentina is on track to become “the most repressive since the last dictatorship” taking into account the report of more than sixty cases of death associated with police violence, registered in the three months that the neoliberal government has been in power.

To this must be added the complaints about censorship of public media, as in the case of the closure of Télam, said the head of CORREPI , María del Carmen Verdú, who blamed the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, for this increase in repressive policies.

The speech given by the head of CORREPI was given in the context of the repression of demonstrators against the sale of the Gaumont Cinema and in defense of national cinema.

Verdú repudiated “the current government's attempts to censor public media” which “centrally affects this task of collecting cases because it's not precisely the commercial press that we get information from, but from the public media that cover the entire country.” “No to the closure of Telam,” he stressed.

He reiterated that the government of Javier Milei, compared to the government of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and Alberto Fernández (2109-2023), shows a “significant increase in cases of repression compared to previous years”.

“During Macri's presidency, it was consolidated as the most repressive government since the last civic military church dictatorship, although the projection we can make with the data collected during the first 70 days of the LLA government indicates that the management of Milei and Victoria Villarruel will leave them on the second step of the podium,” Verdú stressed.

In addition, the representative of CORREPI warned of the escalation of institutional violence during the government of Javier Milei, which could become “the most repressive since the last dictatorship”.

Mazo News Team