Uruguay
A Foreign Ministry director distanced herself from Orsi over his remarks on the attack in Medicine
Cristina Mansilla questioned on social media the president’s characterization of the attempted femicide at the Faculty of Medicine. According to El País, the official noted that it was not an isolated incident.
The official reaction to the attack against a student at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of the Republic added a difference within the Uruguayan government itself. According to El País, the director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Foreign Ministry, Cristina Mansilla, criticized the definition given by President Yamandú Orsi regarding the attempted femicide.
According to that outlet, Orsi had said it was an “isolated incident,” which prompted criticism from students and political actors. A day later, the president clarified that he was referring to the exceptional nature of such an episode occurring at a study center in Uruguay, and not to the gender-based violence incident itself.
Still according to El País, Mansilla wrote on her X account on September 3: “No, honestly, no. An attempted femicide is not a ‘very isolated incident.’ Not at all.”
The Uruguayan outlet also recalled that there were also criticisms of the dean of Medicine, Arturo Briva, for describing the attack as an “exceptional” and “tragic” event.
El País noted that Mansilla is also vice president of the Association of Foreign Service Officials of Uruguay and a member of the Latin American Network of Women Diplomats. It also recalled that her name had appeared in February in the controversy over a mission of 23 people to Geneva to present a report before a United Nations committee.
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