A ruling party senator-elect whose swearing-in to the upper chamber has been delayed amid drug-trafficking claims has accused congressional authorities of “violating the Constitution" and proclaimed her innocence.
La Libertad Avanza’s Lorena Villaverde, who won election to the Senate in the October midterm elections representing Río Negro Province, reiterated this week that she has “no ongoing criminal cases either in Argentina or in the United States” against her.
“They have sullied my name and my honour, and no-one is prepared for their name to be destroyed. I have been acquitted in every case. I am not a drug-trafficker, I am not a fraudster,” Villaverde said in an interview with Radio Rivadavia on
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