Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner leads in the Senate an act in tribute to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, where its head, Estela de Carlotto, and other members of the entity were distinguished with an honorable mention “Juana Azurdur de Padilla” .
The event was organized by the Frente de Todos (FdT) and was also attended by the Defense Ministers, Jorge Taiana; from the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro; Justice, Martin Soria; of Culture, Tristán Bauer, and the Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla Corti, was officially informed.
The leader highlighted “the courage” of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and assured that “there is no higher honor than the memory of a people.”
“There is no higher honor than the memory of a people, than the one that history gives you when you fulfilled your convictions, when you fulfilled society. The Grandmothers had the courage that we did not have so many other Argentines to face. They did not care because They are mothers and there is nothing that matters to mothers more than being touched by a son. We will always carry them in our hearts,” he said.
He maintained that “Argentine society was absolutely disciplined after the tragedy of the ’76 dictatorship,” which “generated a loving leadership.”
For the vice president, those who believe that the repressors “failed because they were sentenced to life imprisonment” are wrong, for which she warned that these effects are seen “in the discipline of society and the political leadership, which say ‘This cannot be done’ , ‘You can’t go against the IMF’; they have disciplined society, and Néstor Kirchner was undisciplined,” he insisted.
The former president affirmed that Argentina “is an example in the world” because “it is the only place where they were tried in the same country where the atrocities had been committed”, referring to the events of the last civil-military dictatorship.
“That Nunca Más is serious because the horror that was experienced today would not be tolerated by Argentina or any country in the world. Today there are other more underhanded, more subtle ways of closing the dreams of those who believe that a different world can be possible. Now They are not tanks, they go through the courts,” said the Vice President in a tribute to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo in the Senate.
The Vice President recalled former President Néstor Kirchner, when warning during an act in the Senate in tribute to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo that “he is here with all of us.”
The head of the Upper House recalled that, with the Human Rights policies, Néstor Kirchner “felt that he had complied with each and every one of the generation of which we were a part, that they followed their convictions, and that, if they were wrong, they would they made a mistake with his body, not like others and those who put things are the town and the people”.
