The referent of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora, Nora Cortiñas, assured this Thursday that the Argentine people “live in resistance” and that it is necessary to “feed that feeling with all the love possible”, when commemorating the Day of Memory, Truth and Justice.
“I start my day with all the strength. Because of all the adversity that has happened, the Argentine people live in resistance. We have to feed that feeling with all the love possible. The struggle of the 30,000 who are detained and disappeared today and who put their bodies to change this Argentina began in 1955, when the Plaza de Mayo was bombed,” Cortiñas told Radio Provincia.
“Because of all the adversity that has happened, the Argentine people live in resistance. We have to feed that feeling with all the love possible”
The Mother of Plaza de Mayo considered that after “so many years of struggle, the people had achieved a bit of a Welfare State”, but considered that With the arrival of Mauricio Macri to the Government “Argentina was destroyed”, and that is why he assessed that the former president “should be imprisoned.”
“After the macrismo, the (coronavirus) pandemic arrived. These last six years that we lived were disastrous for Argentina. Today I see so much poverty, lack of everything. We have to keep fighting and go out on the streets. That’s what we have to do I will continue to be there until God or whoever gives me life, “he stressed.
The reference and co-founder of the emblematic human rights organization that challenged the last dictatorship affirmed that “the people who need encouragement” because they are “hungering for that Justice” but also for “the caress, the look in the eyes.”
? This March 24, 46 years after the coup, with the slogan “With the IMF in the country, more children will die of hunger”
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“We have to recover from this two-year confinement that we had to do due to the pandemic that brought us many illnesses and a lot of sadness. Many people were alone or lost a family member. We were recovering,” he stressed.
He considered that Argentina had always had “a fascism that came and went,” but that “now it is strong” with politicians who deny the crimes committed by state terrorism.
“If the President (Alberto Fernández) listens to the people and governs with that premise, he will do better. “When we vote, we do it for a better world, let’s continue undertaking the work of changing reality,” he concluded.
