The presidents of Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia criticized the defamation campaign against the former vice president of the Government of Spain
Three Latin American presidents in office of the heterogeneous progressive arc, the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Argentine Alberto Fernandezand the Chilean Gabriel Boric, as well as the future left-wing Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, they left this sunday in defense of the former Vice President of the Government of Spain, Pablo Iglesias, who was considered the target of a defamation and false news campaign against him.
López Obrador pointed out on his Twitter account: “Millions of countrymen are going to be angry with my grandfather, but the campaign of the conservatives is of alien and outrageous sorrow against the leaders of Podemos. Let’s have faith, because as the poet Machado said: in Spain the best thing is the people. (…) In hard times, the gentlemen (…) invoke the homeland and sell it; the town does not even name her, but buys her with her blood and saves her. In Spain, there is no way to be a well-born person without loving the people.”
From Buenos Aires, Alberto Fernández expressed: “The fake news disseminated by certain journalism to defame, discourage or persecute political leaders, deeply hurt democracy & rdquor ;, in relation to information published by Ok Diario and the television network The sixth, related to a non-existent Iglesias account in a tax haven where he kept money sent by Nicolás Maduro. “Today it has been shown how news is spread against Pablo Iglesias to revile Podemos. The same happens between us & rdquor ;, Fernández also maintained.
“In Spain, the best is the people. (…) In hard times, the gentlemen (…) invoke the homeland and sell it; the people do not even name it, but buy it with their blood and save it. In Spain , there is no way to be a well-born person without loving the people”.
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) July 10, 2022
Boric also found similarities with the Chilean experience, exacerbated in the midst of the start of proselytizing activities with a view to the popular consultation on September 4 for the new Constitution. “Fake news has made him a deep damage to social coexistence. Here we see what they have done to Podemos in Spain for years, which is not very different from the practices of many in our Latin America. Let’s take care of our democracies!“.
Petro had the same reasoning. Her electoral campaign was marked by a shower of fake news that came immediately to her memory. It looks like deja vu“, he said, and added, about what has happened to Iglesias: “with the collaboration of members of the police a journalist decides to defame, knowing that the news was false, a progressive movement in Spain. It all came out in the end.”
With the collaboration of members of the police, a journalist decides to defame, knowing that the news was false, a progressive movement in Spain. Everything was discovered in the end.
It looks like deja vu. https://t.co/IqNsssdTY9
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) July 10, 2022