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Cristina Fernández says that she suffered violence for being a woman and refers to aggressions to Fabiola Yáñez
Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández, between 2007 and 2015, pointed out on Wednesday, during the trial for the attempted murder against her, that she suffered violence for being a woman and compared images of her published in the press with the photos of Fabiola Yáñez after being possibly beaten by former President Alberto Fernández.
“When a woman exercises power and does not do so in the orientation that the power sectors in Argentina want, it generates much more resistance and much more violence than men,” the former president considered during her statement before the Oral Federal Criminal Court No. 6 of Argentina, of the Comodoro Py Building in Buenos Aires, in the trial for the attack perpetrated when she was vice president of Fernández.
During his testimony, Fernández showed a series of covers of the magazine Noticias and a cartoon of him published in the newspaper Clarín, which, he said, exhibited the violence exercised against her during her years in the Presidency.
The first of them read ‘El goce de Cristina’ and an explicitly sexual allusion, something that she highlighted attacked not her “status as president or politician, but directly as a woman.”
A second cover showed it on a cross, in a pose similar to the crucifixion of Jesus and accompanied by the message ‘Vía Crisis’, while in a third she was seen with a black eye and titled ‘The business of hitting Cristina’.
“Even with a black eye, look at what current context, right?” Fernández said, comparing that publication with the photos of former first lady Fabiola Yánez recently disseminated by the local press as part of the complaint of sexist violence against Alberto Fernández.
In one of those photographs you can see Yáñez with a black eye.
“As you will see, everything is always repeated,” added the former president, who also showed a caricature of hers published in the newspaper Clarín in which an image of her with a black eye is repeated.
“None of the feminists believed that they were assaulting me because of my condition as a woman. Never, never, never, never said anything about this. She was the first female president elected, I am still the only woman elected president. I suffered from these aggressions in my capacity as a woman,” Fernández denounced.
In addition, he stressed that “no man president, who there were, was caricatured in that way,” he commented that “the destruction of machismo and misogyny in Argentina is not a minor issue” and emphasized: “I never heard a president being treated as sexist and misogynist, when many have been and are.”
These statements coincide with the progress of the trial against the former president after the complaint by his ex-partner, who on Tuesday reiterated before the Justice that he hit her several times and suffered serious injuries.
Fernández referred to the case on social networks, where he published that the images of Yáñez “allow us to verify, once again and dramatically, the situation of the woman in any relationship, whether it develops in a palace or in a hut.”
“Personally and as a woman who has been the object (and continues to be) of the worst verbal and political violence, up to the maximum experience of physical violence, as was the assassination attempt of September 1, 2022, I express my solidarity with all women victims of any type of violence, without forgetting the words that (Pope) Francis told me the day after that event: ‘all physical violence is always preceded by verbal violence,’” concluded the former president’s message about the case.
International
Police investigate deaths of Rob Reiner and wife as apparent homicide
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is investigating the deaths of Hollywood actor and filmmaker Rob Reinerand his wife as an “apparent homicide,” amid a wave of tributes to the director of classics such as When Harry Met Sally.
According to U.S. media reports on Sunday, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead at their Los Angeles mansion with what appeared to be stab wounds.
Several political figures shared messages of condolence following the reported deaths of the director of A Few Good Menand his wife.
While the LAPD did not officially confirm the identities of the victims, it stated that homicide detectives were dispatched to the Reiner residence.
“At this time, no additional details are available and the investigation into an apparent homicide is ongoing,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement posted on social media.
LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton told reporters that no arrests have been made and that no individuals are currently being questioned as suspects.
“I’m not going to confirm whether anyone is being questioned at this moment or not. We are going to try to speak with as many family members as we can,” Hamilton said.
CNN reported that a family spokesperson confirmed the deaths of Reiner and his wife.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, former U.S. President Barack Obama, and former Vice President Kamala Harrisissued statements expressing their condolences.
International
U.S. and Mexico Reach Deal to Address Water Deficit Under 1944 Treaty
The United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to comply with current water obligations affecting U.S. farmers and ranchers and for Mexico to cover its water deficit to Texas under the 1944 Water Treaty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement.
The department уточified that the agreement applies to both the current cycle and the water deficit from the previous cycle.
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump accused Mexico of failing to comply with the water-sharing treaty between the two countries, which requires the United States to deliver 1.85 billion cubic meters of water from the Colorado River, while Mexico must supply 432 million cubic meters from the Rio Grande.
Mexico is behind on its commitments. According to Washington, the country has accumulated a deficit of more than one billion cubic meters of water over the past five years.
“This violation is severely harming our beautiful crops and our livestock in Texas,” Trump wrote on Monday.
The Department of Agriculture said on Friday that Mexico had agreed to supply 250 million cubic meters of water starting next week and to work toward closing the shortfall.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, quoted in the statement, said Mexico delivered more water in a single year than it had over the previous four years combined.
Trump has said that if Mexico continues to fall short of its obligations, the United States reserves the right to impose 5% tariffs on imported Mexican products.
Mexico’s Deputy Foreign Minister for North America, Roberto Velasco, said that a severe drought in 2022 and 2023prevented the country from meeting its commitments.
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Several people shot in attack on Brown University campus
Several people were shot on Saturday in an attack on the campus of Brown University, in the northeastern United States, local police reported.
“Shelter in place and avoid the area until further notice,” the Providence Police Department urged in a post on X. Brown University is located in Providence, the capital of the state of Rhode Island.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that he had been briefed on the situation and that the FBI was on the scene.
At 5:52 p.m. local time (11:52 p.m. GMT), Brown University said the situation was still “ongoing” and instructed students to remain sheltered until further notice.
After initially stating that the suspect had been taken into custody, Trump later posted a second message clarifying that local police had walked back that information. “The suspect has NOT been apprehended,” the U.S. president said.
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