"I should have had to protest more for Cristina" | …

Jean-Luc Mélenchon searches the words in his ancestral Castilian (the grandfather was born in Spain) and states: "I am ashamed of not having protested before and stronger for the political persecution of Cristina by justice" . And he adds, "I've always trusted myself, but I did not understand the seriousness of what was happening."

The leader of France Insumisa, the left group with which he got seven million votes in the 2017 presidential election, or 19.58%, has maintained with Page I12 during a tour of Latin America including Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. In Brazil, he visited Lula at Curitiba Prison. In Argentina, he had an interview with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the Instituto Patria. He was also the principal guest of a dinner at Mundo Sur, the foreign policy group that includes Jorge Taiana, Oscar Laborde, Ana Jaramillo, Marcelo Brignoni and Roberto Baradel. It was at the headquarters of the Unified Union of Education Workers of Buenos Aires, Suteba, where Mélenchon shared the roast of Mundo Sur. Those present recorded several concerns of the French political leader. First, his insistence that politics has an emotional dimension that can only be exercised personally. Another idea, his idea that "the clbad struggle is also topical", or directly because of hunger or toxic food. Another, his trip to Latin America was not to teach but to learn.

"Part of my learning has been the fabulous electoral reaction of the Argentine people within the OSP," said Mélenchon. Page I12. "The unification of Peronism and progressive forces is a great lesson for the world".

He explained that another part of his knowledge resulted from "more detailed observation of the intensity of the persecution to which are subject many Latin American leaders". Mélenchon is defined as "a friend of Amado Boudou, but I apologize all the same, because he should have been more energetic in his defense". And the same thing with Cristina, "although I specify that I never shared the dominant point of view on her in the French press".

– What is this vision?

– The world has criticized it a lot. In French politics, the newspaper is center-right, but in international politics it is influenced by the American point of view and comes directly from the right. Many journalists came to say that Nestor Kirchner was lucky.

– The luck why?

–Because he is dead. They wrote that then, she, Cristina, had to answer for the corruption. Lawfare, as the name already used of justice and the big media, is a new form of attack used by the empire and the conservative forces of the whole world. Look at Brazil Can we talk about free elections and a clear victory, that of Jair Bolsonaro, when Lula, the main opposition leader in Michel Temer, was jailed? It's always the same thing. First comes the big media campaign. Then the direct attack. Suspicions As they had suggested that there was smoke, it was because there was a fire. Then, prosecutors linked to the power open the investigation.

– Is it illegal?

–Is it legal to take advantage of the preliminary inquiry into a case to intercept your phone, spy on the computer without your knowledge and not even communicate on the content of the complaint? This is complemented by something you are familiar with in Argentina: prosecutors filter sections of the pins and create a hostile environment. Sometimes they are lies. Sometimes cuts. This is not just in Latin America. In France, there is also a wave of state violence unprecedented in recent decades. During the demonstrations of yellow vests, 22 people lost their sight. There were two dead. Without reaching this extreme, the persecution has reached me as the leader of the opposition.

– You must appear in court on September 19th. Because?

– They say that I have prevented a search. But the truth is that he did not want the security forces to take the list of members at the headquarters of France Insumisa, 43 rue Dunkirk in Paris. There are ten thousand people. And the whole movement, 500 000. Among them, ambbadadors, journalists, judges, military and police commissioners. They did not have the right to capture these lists. I just wanted to check that it was not the case. They accused me of having resisted the authority of the police. They want to get me dirty, they want me to pay fines, lawyers, to hate me, to become disabled. But this process is not the only thing rare. In 2017, as we emerged from the presidential election, they allegedly wanted to kill me with a flamethrower. The intelligence services have led me nearby but no one has alerted me. Is it normal to do so with a neighborhood president? Strange, no? Lula was imprisoned and sentenced and Judge Sergio Moro is the minister of a far-right government. The case of Rafael Correa is also arbitrary. He already has 25 charges in addition. And it all started with the whistleblowing that says Correa wanted to take it off. Worst is Jorge Glbad, the vice president. There is not even any crime. Judgments are shows. The policeman with whom I spoke was given leave of seven days on the grounds that my cries would have caused a psychological shock. If a cry produces this, what would become of a real criminal … Your family is afraid, we are afraid, we wake up in the middle of the night, the media present you as crazy and violent … In these conditions, c & Is very important the friendship of Mexican and Argentine companions. I am not used.

– To this type of persecution?

– exactly. I know the gallery and I know that it comes out with a flag. I do not know the rest. I know that they have prepared and I presume that they are preparing something. They said that Mauricio Macri could not impose labor reform or completely destroy retirement. Well. French entrepreneurs are the first in the distribution of dividends. Macron has abolished the wealth tax and Europe is now the paradise of the rich. And in the meantime, the show of the tests. The day they entered our headquarters, I saw that there was a camera from a TV show, Daily. For months in the presentation of the program, I appear screaming. They want to drive me crazy.

–Who is it?

– Prosecutors are former socialists sold to Emanuel Macron. With what they do, they give a show of love to power. The Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior are former socialists.

–You were also socialist.

– We all know each other.

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