The rejection of President Javier Milei's crusade against women and LGTBIQ+ groups has been overwhelming and transversal in Buenos Aires
Tens of thousands of people marched this Saturday in Buenos Aires to repudiate the homophobic speech of the president, Javier Milei, carried as a flag the World Economic Forum in Davos. milei there was Homosexuality linked to pedophilia as part of his attacks against what he calls “the cancer of woke ideology".
This time, the excesses of the far-right politician earned him a cross-party rejection in Argentina, which ended with a large demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo, Front of Casa Rosada, convened by the LGTBIQ+ and feminist groups. "Mothers of the square, the people embrace you”, they sang in support of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who together with the Grandmothers, have joined the call. Social, union and political organizations joined the call, such as Kirchnerist Peronism, the left and the most progressive sectors of the centenary Radical Civic UnionThe Government, which was on the defensive all week, called the call "supporter".
The mobilization began in front of Congress and advanced along the traditional May Avenue to the Casa Rosada. Slogans like “to the closet never again"were mixed with others of a clearly oppositional nature such as"Enough of adjustment”. The call of the gender groups soon became a large demonstration of repudiation of Milei under the flags of “Antifascism and antiracism”. The organized groups were joined by people without political affiliation, families who came with children. Catholic Church, even supported in his own way.
Elimination of LGTBIQ+ rights in Argentina
The last great mobilization against milei It was in April last year, when half a million people took to the streets in Buenos Aires to reject the budget cuts to public universities. There was a second call in October, without the same repercussion, and since then the Government has enjoyed social peace despite the depth of the economic adjustment it is applying. That is why it did not expect the repercussions that they had. the words of Milei in Davos.
The entire political spectrum, including some allies, repudiated his words. Faced with the initial rejections, the far-right government doubled down and announced the presentation to Congress of a project of "equality before the law". Your proposal? Eliminate the legal figure of femicide, job quotas for sexual minorities, the gender parity in lists electoral and the non-binary identity documents, among other measures aligned with the dismantling of public policies and institutions that fought against discrimination against women and sexual diversity.
In the World Economic Forum, Milei had argued that feminism “It is a distortion of the concept of equality” and hides the “search for privileges”. He had also referred to the “bloodthirsty and murderous abortion agenda” and stated that, “In its most extreme versions, gender ideology constitutes child abuse, they are pedophiles.”. In addition to denying the gender pay gap, she had questioned that “If one kills a woman, it is called femicide and that carries a more serious penalty than if one kills a man just because of the sex of the victim.".
