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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 10:32 UTC

Tag: Lourdes Arrieta

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Argentina: Congresswoman Arrieta leaves LLA bloc – ruling party feebler?

    Menem fears that discrepancies within LLA's bloc fuels destabilizing rumors

    Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta announced Tuesday that she was resigning from La Libertad Avanza's bloc to form her one-seat force in the Lower House. After being involved in a series of incidents regarding the visit of a group of lawmakers to incarcerated human rights violators during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, Arrieta claimed that “I cannot be part of a party where I am not respected.”

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Argentina: Breakup among Libertarian lawmakers imminent

    Arrieta said Martín Menem called her “a little whore”

    Libertarian Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta, who gained notoriety for claiming she did not know who the people she visited with a group of fellow lawmakers at the Ezeiza penitentiary because she had been born in 1993, keeps undermining whichever unity President Javier Milei's Parliamentarians might have left by denouncing House Speaker Martín Menem for allegedly labeling the female deputies of his bloc as ”whores.