‘All feminists are under attack’: ultra-right threat in Milei’s Argentina forces writer into exile

Exiled feminist writer Luciana Peker holding up one of her books: ‘My fear does what it always does to women, it shuts me up,’ she said. Photograph: Salvador Batalla

Female journalists who write about gender issues say they are having to deal with a toxic wave of threats against them in Argentina. Some are fighting back, others are lying low and one has gone into self-imposed exile for her safety.

“We are facing a witch-hunt from the ultra-right,” said the author, journalist and activist Luciana Peker, who recently left Argentina for an undisclosed location due to the weight of threats against her.