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The leader of the "Mothers of Plaza de Mayo", Hebe de Bonafini, called for a "pueblada" (popular rebellion)

to prevent former president

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

from going to prison

if she is found guilty in the trials that are currently taking place .

of corruption in Argentina.

"We have to put together a town. We cannot allow Cristina to be convicted or taken to prison. We have to make a town because

it is the only thing that is going to save her

and it is in our hands and yours," De Bonafini said during an act on Friday afternoon in Pehuajó, 350 kilometers from Buenos Aires.

Fernández de Kirchner, 69 years old and now vice president,

is the focus of an oral and public trial for "illicit association" and "defrauding the State"

that has been pleading for two weeks and in which the prosecutors have been unraveling a series of evidence of great forcefulness.

The former president herself sought the recusal of prosecutors and judges, although without success.

De Bonafini, 93, founded the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association in 1977, which in the midst of the military dictatorship began to march in the square in front of the Casa Rosada demanding the appearance of thousands of disappeared persons.

The two sons and the daughter-in-law of the until today leader of the human rights entity

were kidnapped and remain missing.

In recent years, De Bonafini has become a controversial figure with statements that generated significant rejection, such as those of 2001

in which he celebrated the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon

.

A fervent Kirchner supporter, the leader of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo said she was preparing for the possibility that before the end of the year the justice system would find Fernández de Kirchner guilty and sentence him to prison.

"We have to defend her with everything. If we love her so much and ask her so much, with the same roar that we ask her, we have to defend her (...). A little letter is

not enough, a statement in the newspaper is not enough, it is not enough

" .

"This thing about Cristina is very serious, it's very serious, and they go for everything. The enemy comes for everything, and it comes from the hand of the Yankees, that's why it's dangerous.

Because the Yankees want to steal everywhere, they kill everywhere. sides

and then they become the victims. So we have to be very careful, let's prepare ourselves, let's do it in every square, on every corner, in our houses, let's talk with friends, with relatives, let's explain what is happening, how they want to put her in jail there is no reason".


Fernández de Kirchner claims to be the victim of a conspiracy that falls within the concept of "lawfare", the alleged manipulation of justice by politics.

A phenomenon, says the former president, that

she was also angry with former presidents such as the Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

, the Ecuadorian Rafael Correa or the Bolivian Evo Morales.

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