06/14/2021 11:40 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/14/2021 11:41 PM
A group of opposition political and social leaders and journalists were scanned
on a Kirchnerista website
.
There, they drew up a list which they called
"Conservative reaction"
, in which they published the names, links, photos and personal data of leaders, all accused for their positions against the decriminalization of abortion.
In the escrache there was a database with personal files of the deputies Marcela Campagnoli, Gustavo Hein and Estela Regidor, among dozens of political and social leaders, such as Toty Flores, as well as the
UCR, PRO
and the Civic Coalition parties, among others.
Also included are the economist Javier Milei, his colleague and former candidate for president José Luis Espert, as well as several
Catholic institutions
.
The list and personal data were compiled by a group of feminist journalists, made up of
Ingrid Beck
, Soledad Vallejos, Paula Hernández, Flor Alcaraz, Paula Rodríguez and Juan Elman, who were financed by the feminist organization
International Family Planning Federation
.
The escrache, which was disseminated on the reaccionconservadora.net domain, was later reproduced on the news portal
ElDiario.ar
as if it were a journalistic investigation
.
But it unleashed such a level of
controversy and repudiation
in the opposition and on social media that the website
was finally closed
.
The main reactions to the escrache questioned the inclusion of
personal files, names, photos, background and links
.
"The creation of a black list or an invitation to escrache cannot be dressed as journalism," questioned deputy Mario Negri, head of the Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) interblock.
Later, JxC released a statement in which it repudiated "the
making of black lists
in democracy" and asked "to preserve the quality of our democracy and defend freedoms in a time marked by individual restrictions and little tolerance for dissent."
"It also points to the PRO, the UCR and the CC as parties that are part of a scheme of ties that also includes young people and militants who are
stigmatized as the" new right "
, and whose privacy is violated by exposing images and information that they exhibit their
relationships, courtships or ties to NGOs
, social, religious or party organizations, "the statement said.
With the hashtag
“La Gestapo Argentina”
another of the victims, the journalist Agustín Laje, expressed his opinion: “Can you imagine if the right wing had set up this sort of blacklist against progressives, putting their names with personal information?
We would already have a problem with INADI and the media, to a minimum.
But they will have no problem.
They enjoy ideological privileges ”.
Film director Juan José Campanella affirmed that “it is surprising that they do not even realize how big they are.
This is not progressivism, it is outright fascism.
They are the most reactionary in the country and have no moral limit ”.
A specialist consulted by Clarín assured that "the Personal Data Protection Law prohibits the creation of databases with information on people's affiliation and political ties, since current regulations consider them sensitive data."
Those responsible for Eldiario.ar, who promised to publish the alleged report in stages, stated that "Ingrid Beck and several of the team members
were threatened by telephone
and their personal data was leaked" and repudiated the escraches and threats.
The authors of the escrache presented the opposition leaders as “individuals and organizations and their identifiable relationships with the conservative reaction. The search can be done through different filters: by activity (social networks, political parties, churches, media, powers of the State,
think tanks
, among others), territory or individually by name.
Clicking on each photo
brings up the corresponding biography and its network of links ".
From the LED Foundation, founded by Silvana Giudici, they repudiated the initiative, stating that “the making of lists or personal files on any citizen and their publication on the web to be stigmatized under
a negative bias
due to their ideological position, whatever it is, puts in risk the exercise of the most elementary human right such as freedom of thought and opinion ”.
The head of the Buenos Aires UCR,
Maximiliano Abad
, said that "the" Conservative Reaction "website is an example of persecutory practices that we believed to be extinct.
Including the UCR, a show of ignorance that we deeply regret ”.
Deputy Mónica Frade accused the Conservative Reaction of being "
intelligence services revamped
in journalistic format."
One of the defenders of the escrache was the deputy of the Frente de Todos Gabriela Cerruti.
"The right does not support that you call it right. It does not want you to name it," he said.
The initiative was also supported by Leandro Cahn, executive director of the Fundación Guest, and the deputies Mónica Macha and Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez.
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