Argentina's Fernandez, Lula da Silva and Pepe Mujica attend rally to mark Human Rights Day

Record ID: 1650693

  • Title: Argentina's Fernandez, Lula da Silva and Pepe Mujica attend rally to mark Human Rights Day
  • Date: 11th December 2021
  • Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (DECEMBER 10, 2021) (REUTERS) VARIOUS AERIAL SHOTS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING IN BUENOS AIRES STREETS PROTESTERS WAVING FLAGS AND HOLDING FLARES IN HANDS VARIOUS AERIAL SHOTS OF PROTESTERS AT PLAZA DE MAYO VARIOUS OF ARGENTINE VICE PRESIDENT CRISTINA FERNANDEZ KIRCHNER, FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, FORMER URUGUAYAN PRESIDENT PEPE MUJICA AND ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ALBERTO FERNANDEZ ENTERING STAGE AT EVENT AT PLAZA DE MAYO (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ARGENTINE VICE PRESIDENT, CRISTINA FERNANDEZ KIRCHNER, SAYING: "We need the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help us to recover from the fiscal paradises, where thousands and millions of dollars have gone in (tax) evasion so that we pay back. President, pledge that you'll pay to the IMF every dollar recovered from tax evasion. That should be a negotiation bridge with the IMF." ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ALBERTO FERNANDEZ DURING SPEECH ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ARGENTINE PRESIDENT, ALBERTO FERNANDEZ, SAYING: "Calm down Cristina. We won't negotiate anything that will compromise Argentina's growth and social development. Secondly, Cristina don't be scared. If the IMF let's go of my hand, I'll be holding the hand of every Argentine." GENERAL VIEW OF FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA DURING SPEECH VARIOUS OF CRISTINA FERNANDEZ KIRCHNER, ALBERTO FERNANDEZ AND FORMER URUGUAY'S PRESIDENT PEPE MUJICA LISTENING TO LULA (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) FORMER PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL, LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, SAYING: "Our beloved South America lived its best period between 2001 and 2012 when we governed democratically all of South America's countries." VARIOUS OF ALBERTO FERNANDEZ AND LULA RAISING HANDS AND POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS CRISTINA FERNANDEZ KIRCHNER HUGGING LULA AND WAVING TO PROTESTERS AUDIENCE FILMING SCENE WITH MOBILE PHONES CRISTINA FERNANDEZ KIRCHNER AND ALBERTO FERNANDEZ WAVING TO AUDIENCE AND POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
  • Embargoed: 25th December 2021 02:36
  • Keywords: Argentina Buenos Aires Human Rights protests
  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
  • City: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: Fundamental Rights/Civil Liberties,South America / Central America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001F7LEMVB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: On Friday (December 10) thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires to mark the Human Rights Day.
    President Alberto Fernandez and vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner were joined onstage at a rally in Casa Rosada by Uruguayan and Brazilian former presidents Pepe Mujica and Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva.
    One of the most addressed topics at the event was Argentina's debt negotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) President Fernandez said that his government "Won't negotiate anything that will compromise Argentina's growth and social development."
    Meanwhile, Lula fondly recalled the early part of the century when a pink tide of leftist governments ruled South America.
    "Our beloved South America lived its best period between 2001 and 2012 when we governed democratically all of South America's countries," he said.
    (Production: Horacio Soria, Claudia Martini, Miguel lo Bianco, Juan Bustamante, Eva Weininger)
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