In the fashionable neighborhood of Recoleta in Buenos Aires, a lone gunman attempted to shoot Argentina’s Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner while she was returning to her apartment on the evening of Sept. 1.
Minister of the Economy Sergio Masa called the event an “attempted assassination” on Twitter.
This arrives only eight days after legislators warned about the “climate of extreme violence” Argentina is enduring amid subsidy cuts, a collapsed peso rate, decimated foreign currency reserves, and sky-high inflation surpassing 70 percent.
Television cameras captured the event as the vice president arrived at her home in the evening.
President of Argentina Alberto Fernandez delivers his speech next to Vice President Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 1, 2022. (Matias Baglietto/Getty Images)
Local reporters were already on the scene with inquiries about the vice president’s ongoing trial for corruption, in which she faces up to 12 years in prison….