Warning on negativism and extremist ties of Argentinean candidate

Buenos Aires, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) The vice-presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza, Victoria Villarruel, denies the disappearance of 30 thousand people during the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) and maintains links with the Spanish ultra-right-wing organization Vox, the newspaper Página 12 warned today.

August 20, 2023
11:41

According to the newspaper, the 48-year-old lawyer and Javier Milei’s running mate comes from a military family and would be the one to monitor the security, defense and intelligence areas if that group wins the general elections of October 22.

Her father, Eduardo Marcelo Villarruel, worked in the General Secretariat of the Army within the Department of Social Communication during the civil-military regime and was pointed out as one of the military men who wanted to kill former President Raúl Alfonsín (1927-2009).

Meanwhile his uncle, Ernesto Guillermo, was arrested in October 2015 by order of Judge Daniel Rafecas for crimes committed in the undercover center known as Vesubio, but was not prosecuted because he was declared unfit to face the process, Pagina 12 indicated.

In addition, the newspaper states that the vice-presidential candidate was part of the Argentine Unity Association, led by Fernando Exequiel Verplaetsen, former head of Intelligence of the Command of Military Institutes established in Campo de Mayo, where one of the extermination centers of the dictatorship operated.

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