"Javier Milei has targeted feminist movements."

During Women's Month, within the framework of the meeting Gender and public policy: Rights in tension?, organized by CLACSO on March 6 in Buenos Aires, Veronica Gago, from the University of San Martín and a professor and researcher at CLACSO, spoke with CLACSO.tv.

Two days before the International Feminist Strike, the Argentine researcher asserted that “we are in a truly dramatic, critical situation, one that places our country—known worldwide for the strength and power of its feminist movement, the mobilizations of recent years, and such important achievements as the abortion law—at the center of the world stage in this reactionary far-right laboratory.” She further noted that “teaching the movement, as this government intends to do, sends a regional and global message,” adding that, nevertheless,

Regarding the March 8th mobilizations, she added: “We are betting on massive turnout because we believe it is the main tool for self-defense. There is an activation and a state of alert on the part of the feminist movement.”