Buenos Aires, March 27 (NA) — “Commie fatty”: That's how Enzo Ferreira, director of “Radio Nacional Tucumán Mercedes Sosa,” referred to the iconic singer Mercedes Sosa. In response, her niece, communicator Maby Sosa, stated that the artist's family is seeking legal recourse against the libertarian official's actions. In an interview with the Argentine News Agency, Maby said the young influencer had “the clear intention to discredit” the performer and added, “It anguished me deeply because he is a public official speaking on behalf of the people of Tucumán.” “It's a disgrace from any angle you look at it,” Sosa emphasized, while also explaining that the station's director had also reposted a message targeting her aunt's memory: “This fatty was a cancer.” Furthermore, the communicator explained that Ferreira secured his senior position because “the director is appointed by the management of the public media in the region.” “The anti-Trumpers in the NFL hired him to plant flags against the country he lives in, despite his Latino pride.” “His ‘revolution’ would be impossible without capitalism. It saddens me that there are such limited minds who get carried away by the passion of seeing a guy jumping with 50 paid dancers in dollars and playing the tough guy with the country that feeds him and say ‘HE REPRESENTS ME’,” closed the director of the Tucumán media outlet. Meanwhile, the Tucumán Cultural Entity issued a statement this noon expressing its “energetic repudiation of the offensive expressions made on social networks by Enzo Ferreira, coordinator of Radio Nacional Tucumán, against the figure of Mercedes Sosa, one of the most transcendent artists of Argentine and Latin American culture, pride of the Tucumán people and an undisputed benchmark of our identity.” “The statements that qualify Sosa with offensive and disqualifying terms not only constitute an affront to her memory but also to the entire community that recognizes in her voice a symbol of struggle, sensitivity, and social commitment,” the statement added. As an entity, they considered it “unacceptable for speeches of hate, symbolic violence, and devaluation to circulate in the public space, and even more so when they come from people who hold institutional positions,” and they stressed: “This type of expression represents an attack on the culture and identity of Tucumán, disregarding the value of those who built, with their work, the cultural heritage of our province.” “Mercedes Sosa represents a cultural legacy that transcends generations, ideologies, and borders.”
