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Argentine Deputy Condemned Applause for US Plans on Venezuela

Left-wing leader Myriam Bregman sharply criticized applause from colleagues in the Argentine parliament for Donald Trump's plans to intervene in Venezuela, calling it sycophancy towards imperialism and urging condemnation of such actions.


Argentine Deputy Condemned Applause for US Plans on Venezuela

The left-wing leader fired back: “You cannot justify and applaud an attack on a people in Latin America.” Bregman reacted to the applause given by ruling party deputies to the U.S. president Donald Trump's plan to intervene in Venezuela and filed a privilege motion against them. “I feel deeply offended to be part of a country that has a colonial occupation in the Malvinas. This level of sycophancy, of bootlickers applauding a criminal act, the military advance against Venezuela, compels me to file a privilege motion against the deputies,” she announced. The PTS leader emphasized that the peoples of Latin America already have experience with such actions of economic boycott and military intervention, and mentioned in this regard the “criminal blockade” that the United States imposed on Cuba in 1962. “Shut up those macaws!,” she shot back at the boos from the ruling bloc, before then directly attacking Lemoine. According to Bregman, “The United States intervenes politically in the region” and gave as an example the demand from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for the judicial sentence against Cristina Kirchner to be issued before the Supreme Court's ruling, or the request for “impunity for (Jair) Bolsonaro.” “They are advancing by conditioning our country, with (Scott) Bessent and Trump telling us who to vote for,” she emphasized regarding the explicit support of the Republican government in the last elections for La Libertad Avanza. “We call on a country that has the English in the Malvinas to speak out against this imperialist interference,” she concluded. As confirmed by the Noticias Argentinas agency, the head of the Left Front bloc, Myriam Bregman, exploded today against national deputy for La Libertad Avanza Lilia Lemoine, who tried to interrupt her with shouts during her speaking time, which she used to repudiate the announcement of a blockade and possible military invasion of the United States against Venezuela. “Shut up, Lemoine, you have no idea! Shut your mouth!”