Legislators will debate the modification of article 213 of the Penal Code to strengthen the fight against these behaviors, and will evaluate proposals such as sentences of three months to two years in prison, fines, dismissals and disqualification from holding public office for 10 years, among others.
They will also study the creation of an Observatory for Democratic Coexistence whose objectives will be to design academic actions against hate speech and violence.
In recent months, Argentina has seen with concern the resurgence of acts and statements that deny the crimes perpetrated by the civil-military dictatorship established from 1976 to 1983, which disappeared 30 thousand people and separated hundreds of children from their families.
Members of political organizations, unions and human rights advocates denounced statements of this type made by the La Libertad Avanza presidential candidates during the electoral campaign, made up of Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel.
According to Página 12 newspaper, Villaruel was part of the Argentine Unity Association, led by Fernando Exequiel Verplaetsen, former head of Intelligence of the Military Institutes Command established in Campo de Mayo, where one of the extermination centers of the dictatorship operated.
She also joined the Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims, which opposes the fight for human rights, defends the repressors and calls for the accusation and prosecution of militants who were victims of the regime.
According to the newspaper, Villarruel founded Jóvenes por la Verdad, a group whose most notable activity was coordinating visits to dictator Jorge Rafael Videla (1925-2013). In addition, she is honorary president of the Oíd Mortales Foundation, which signed the Madrid Charter, signed by Vox and members of the Latin American right who consider communism as a threat.
Villarruel attacked the Grandmothers and Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and the ESMA Memorial Site Museum at the former Navy Mechanics School, in addition to organizing an event in tribute to genocidaires in the capital’s Legislature, which generated strong criticism.
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