In Spain, they don’t want Videla to be decorated | Can …

To the Spanish government, they demand the removal of a decoration that royalty awarded to the genocidal Jorge Rafael Videla. Can we, the party of the Spanish vice-president, Pablo Iglesias, promotes review and withdrawal of recognition in Videla, convicted of crimes against humanity and imprisoned until his last days in a common prison for crimes committed against the Argentine people.

The Spanish feast United We Can, member of the government coalition with the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) of President Pedro Sánchez, noted in a statement addressed to the government in the What they directly point to Videla and other dictators who “review and remove decorations and honors from members of totalitarian regimes and those who have been convicted of crimes against humanity.” or criminal acts manifestly incompatible with democratic values ​​and fundamental rights and freedoms “.

The Argentine authorities welcome this initiative because it has its correlation with the withdrawal by the French government of a recognition which had been granted to the repressor Ricardo Miguel Cavallo in 1985.

French President Emmanuel Macron signed the decree for the withdrawal of the decoration of the National Order of Merit available to the imprisoned soldier sentenced to life imprisonment.