Who is Victoria Villarruel, the denialist elected vice president who will take over Security and Defense in Argentina | PROFILE

The elected vice president of Argentina, Victoria Villaruelrecognized for its campaign in favor of reviewing the memory structure of those who disappeared during the last dictatorship (1976-1983), will have the areas of Defense and Security under its orbit starting December 10.

Due to her position as number two in the State, she will be the successor of Cristina Kirchner at the head of the Argentine Senate and will replace the president in case of illness, travel, death, resignation or dismissal, according to the Argentine Constitution.

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The companion of the winning presidential candidate this Sunday Javier Milei In the formula of the La Libertad Avanza coalition, she is a lawyer very close to the military sphere as she is the daughter of a lieutenant colonel, a veteran of the Falklands War. Eduardo Marcelo Villarruelalready deceased.

Furthermore, she is the niece of Ernesto Guillermo Villarruel, who was arrested in October 2015 by order of the judge Daniel Rafecas for crimes committed in a clandestine torture center during the dictatorship.

Defender of the idea that “there are not 30,000,” in reference to the number of dead and missing in the military regime, among her campaign proposals Villarruel has announced that she will increase the budget of the Defense and Security areas by 2% of the GDP.

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She has claimed the ‘theory of the two demons’ to equate the violence of guerrilla groups with State terrorism and, as a lawyer, created in 2006 the Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victimsan organization that claims that “terrorists” attacked 17,380 “innocent citizens” in the 1970s, of whom 1,094 were murdered.

Born in the City of Buenos Aires on April 13, 1975 (she is 48 years old), Villarruel graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and technician in Urban and Port Security from the National Technological University.

Since 2021 she has been a national deputy, along with Javier Milei, and from the beginning of the campaign she promoted her agenda to “reconstruct the part of history” that, in her opinion, the Governments of the now deceased Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) “erased”. ), along with those of Cristina Kirchner (2007-2015) and Alberto Fernández (2019-2023).

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Clearly, Villarruel affirms that “there were not” 30,000 people who disappeared during the “National Reorganization Process,” as the military regime called it, but 8,751, unlike what human rights organizations such as the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo defend.

She is also questioned about the visits made to military leaders detained for crimes against humanity perpetrated in Argentina, which she has justified as part of an academic investigation.

To address insecurity, one of the problems that most concerns Argentines, their proposals revolve around the collaboration of federal forces in the fight against organized crime, particularly drug trafficking, present throughout the country and especially in the city of Rosario.

In addition to being considered a “denialist” for her military agenda, she is a parishioner of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius a traditionalist Catholic order that does not recognize certain doctrines of the Second Vatican Council, expands the theory of deicide and rejects the elimination of the Latin mass, freedom of worship and the sole authority of the Pope.

He is ‘pro-life’ – just like the president-elect, Javier Milei – and it is foreseeable that he will try to reverse the law that allows abortion up to the 14th week of gestation, whether due to rape or risk to life.

At the international level, Villarruel was the necessary link so that the president-elect could have contact with the extreme right in other countries, such as Vox in Spain, the Trumpist Republicans in the United States and the Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil.

“Thank you to all the Argentine people who, despite the obstacles, chose Freedom and a future for themselves and their children. “With Javier Milei we feel a deep honor to represent you and to move with you into the coming years,” was the message that the vice president-elect shared upon learning of the victory this Sunday by more than eleven points of difference with respect to the Peronist candidacy.

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