Posted on 12/09/2022 7:05:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It's been a crazy week in South America. In Peru, a president was arrested and removed from office. The U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru is advising Americans to avoid crowds, demonstrations, and comply with police. Over in Brazil, President elect Lula is trying to put a cabinet together in a bitterly divided country.
Over in Argentina, where everybody is talking about the World Cup these days, VP Cristina Fernandez got some bad news:
Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández was convicted and sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office for a fraud scheme that embezzled $1 billion through public works projects during her presidency.
A three-judge panel found the Peronist leader guilty of fraud, but rejected a charge of running a criminal organization, for which the sentence could have been 12 years in prison. It was the first time an Argentine vice president has been convicted of a crime while in office.
Fernández lashed out at the verdict, describing herself as the victim of a “judicial mafia.” But she also later announced that she would not run next year for the presidency, a post she previously held in 2007-2015.
The sentence isn’t firm until appeals are decided, a process that could take years. She will remains immune from arrest meanwhile.
So the appeals mean that VP Fernandez won't be arrested anytime soon. She is also lucky that everyone is focused on the Argentina vs Netherlands game this weekend. The game will get her off the front pages for now but it won't soften the bitter divisions in the country.
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Isn’t this the b!tch that stole everyone’s 401k and IRA Plans and promptly lost (spent) all the funds? .................
It’s a shame, in this country we elevate them from a senator for Illinois to the presidency, and later we elect their vice president to president. I can think of at least three senators who should be in jail right now. But instead one enjoys the position of being a twice elected president, one is constantly on the talk show circuit talking about how she lost the election because of Russian interference and one is the current occupant of the White House. It’s a shame we don’t have the backbone that Argentina has apparently.
See how well a felony conviction and prison sentence worked out for lula in Brazil eh?
I agree. You know who else should be in jail? Gyorgy Schwartz.
It is all part of a plan to pull people out of elected office all over South American. We read about it in the media and become accustomed to the idea of indicting presidents and vice presidents and making sure they can’t run for public office again.
THEN they do it to Trump!
It’s a shame we don’t have the backbone that Argentina has apparently.
Or the returning veterans in Athens, Tenn circa 1946
Or a certain group of guys some time in the 1770s that got tired of the sh*t they were dealing with
You know who else should be in jail? Gyorgy Schwartz.
Did you really mean, he should be in jail for a couple of days before he’s hanging from a lamppost and left up there for the birds to pick at him. Along with his kids.
I thought that’s what you meant.
Quite a few more can be on the other posts that line the street.
A headline any American would love to see
Today’s headline comes from America. President Biden was convicted and sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office.
No telling what crime he’s done Xi winks.
Pretty sure there were 2 ‘rounds’ of that seizure.
It got Pelosi & Schumer & Obama’s attention and they were discussing the same moves here in USA.
It is all part of a plan to pull people out of elected office all over South American. We read about it in the media and become accustomed to the idea of indicting presidents and vice presidents and making sure they can’t run for public office again.
THEN they do it to Trump!
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