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actress argentina Cecilia Roth ensures that she was raped in Madrid by a Spanish journalist to feminism taken by assault the argentine television
Each new allegation of sexual abuse and harassment causes an earthquake. When you listen, other women, people look back and remember the violence that for years silenced and tried to forget. Happened to the mighty american producer Harvey Weinstein, denounced by hundreds of Hollywood actresses. In Argentina, was repeated with the actor and singer John Darthés. First reported the actress Calu Rivero, after his colleagues Natalia Reed, and Ana Coacci. Today, wrapped up by dozens of interpreters in a collective act, Thelma Fardín has made public a complaint against Darthés for alleged rape. They were on tour in Nicaragua. She was 16 years old, he 45.
“For nine years anulé to be able to move forward. Until a few months ago I heard another girl accused the same person. It was a slap for me”, narrated Fardín between tears in a video issued this afternoon during a press conference of the collective Actresses in argentina. The actress recalled that one night in 2009, when they were on tour with the children’s program Ugly Duckling, Darthés began to kiss his neck, despite the fact that she was asking him not to do it. “He grabbed my hand and said to me, ‘look at how I start’ making me feel his erection. I kept saying no,” he continued. Then threw it in the bed, performed oral sex and climbed over her to penetrate it, despite its manifold negative, according to his testimony.
The actress announced that it has filed the criminal complaint in Nicaragua, the place where alleged events took place. Do not rule out also ask the cooperation or intervention of the Justice department of argentina.
The accusation of Fardín is the more serious of the well-known up until the time within the scope of the action in Argentina, but it is not an isolated case. According to a slope in recent SAGAI, 66% of the interpreters stated that they had been the victim of some type of sexual harassment or sexual abuse in the exercise of the profession. “It’s more like a norm than an exception,” denounced the collective Actresses Argentinas in a text read collectively. “Who are we going to report? What are the head casting, the owner of the production company, the director of the play or film, the drama teacher?”, it is questioned.
Actresses argentine in the press conference to accompany Thelma Fardín. AFP
“it Is known that this is a phenomenon that has been shaken internationally to the entertainment industry and is functional to it. Today we say enough is Enough. Hear us out, the time of impunity for perpetrators must end,” stressed, among the applause of an auditorium filled.
One of the actresses present was Cecilia Roth, months ago he confessed for the first time that he had been sexually abused by a Spanish journalist. “To me, I was raped in Spain. I had a situation like this in Madrid. But it was so strong that he refused for a long time. It happened many years ago, so many that I don’t remember the name of the person”, he assured THE COUNTRY in an interview last month.
At the forefront of the continent
Argentina has been at the forefront of Latin America in some of the claims of feminists of the past few years. In this country you were born in, in 2015, the movement, Or A Least against the femicides that are then replicated in a large part of the continent. In 2017 organized the first strike of women in the region and this year was marked by the collective struggle in favour of the legalization of abortion, which was finally braking in the Senate and is authorized only in some cases. In South america, only Uruguay allows women to freely decide on the interruption of their pregnancy.
Roth shared about filming on the miniseries television History of a clan with Rita Pauls and perceived the harassment suffered by his partner on the part of the veteran actor, Tristán Díaz Ocampo. “I said things to the ear disgusting, very vulgar on the two, whispered, and totally out of the script, ‘I’m going to do such a thing…”, said Pauls, 24 years of age. “The reality is that at that time, prior to the MeToo, the director did something else to kill that male character in chapter seven. There was No other way to get rid of it,” said Roth about the situation of harassment endured by their colleague.
One of the first actresses to break the silence was Calu Rivero. The actress, 31 years old, accused of stalking John Darthés, your excompañero in the cast of the telenovela Dulce love. “I was in my place of work, it was my first leading role, the best moment of my career. There, in a recording set, under the eye of the camera, they began their excesses inappropriate, that were not part of the script,” he told the magazine Hello the actress about the alleged harassment he suffered in 2012. Darthés denied the charge and denounced Rivero before the courts for damages.
The call of the collective Actresses in Argentina, that brings together 400 of them, was one of the trends of the day in the social networks under the hashtag #MeToo. The debate stopped evidence why the argentine has cost them so much to talk about: many Twitter users have been insulted, have mocked them and have them thrown in the face of its commitment with other flags of feminism, such as the legalization of abortion. Others are glad that they will not shut up more.
“Compared to the ‘look as I start’, we say ‘Look, as we’. We are strong, united front to your violence and your impunity. We’re together. Justice for our colleague and for todes. This has just began”, concluded the actress.
