Milei heads cold commemorative event for the Falklands War

Buenos Aires. In a country convulsed by an unsustainable social situation, during the commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the Malvinas War (1982), President Javier Milei led an event in Plaza San Martín, in front of some soldiers, plus those representing presidential custody. , and in a cold speech he dedicated himself to criticizing the previous governments “and the corrupt politicians”, denigrating the actions of those who called for memory, truth and justice, by maintaining that in recent years they had been “harassing and humiliating” the military, evidently vindicating those of the past dictatorship.

At the other extreme, the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, the Peronist Axel Kicillof, responded to Milei during a popular event for veterans held in Pilar, a city north of the province of the Argentine capital, reminding him of the times he expressed his admiration for the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

“We are waiting for whoever is president today to tell the people that they cannot honor and have as an idol Margaret Thatcher, who treacherously ordered the killing of Argentine soldiers” during the Malvinas war, Kicillof said.

He referred to the order to bomb the Argentine ship General Belgrano, in which 323 Argentine soldiers died, the largest number of young soldiers killed in that war.

Kicillof spoke alongside the mayor of Pilar, Federico Achával, and the president of the Veterans Federation of the province of Buenos Aires, Roberto Gerpe.

“Sovereignty is not just a speech on April 2, it is not just carrying symbols or singing the anthem. It must be exercised and updated every day, remembering the Malvinas feat and honoring the former combatants, demanding in an unwavering and paying the international costs that have to be paid by repudiating the usurpers,” Kicillof said.

Milei, meanwhile, criticized the “political caste” that is his opponents and maintained that he wants to make “a real and sincere claim, not mere words in international forums” which, according to his view, until now had “zero impact on reality.” and “it only served the politician on duty to impose a false love for the country.”

The environment that surrounded Milei was uniformed and there he also spoke of his “inspirator, General Julio Argentino Roca”, who was at the head of the criminal Desert Campaign at the end of the 19th century, when there was a genocide of the native peoples of the Patagonian area, a massacre that no one forgets.

But the most questionable moment in his argument was when Milei referred to the second condition, that of military power. There he reissued the old slogan of “national reconciliation” fostered during Menemism by the denialist sectors of the crimes against humanity committed during the last dictatorship.

In that section, Milei asked “that on this April 2 we inaugurate a new era of reconciliation with the Armed Forces,” in such a way that “tribute to the” military heroes (he did not specify which ones) “giving them the recognition they deserve.” ”.

The president who negotiated with David Cameron, the British Chancellor, and has allowed them to continue acting by giving authorization to different companies, including Israel, to exploit that very rich area of ​​the South Atlantic, violating the resolutions of the United Nations Organization regarding this conflict. , when there is already a very important naval base on one of the islands of the archipelago, which today is already on the map of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, spoke of the “unwavering claim to sovereignty” over the islands, and said that the only The way to strongly raise this claim is by inserting Argentina as a “protagonist of international trade,” urging society to open a stage of “reconciliation with the Armed Forces.”

At this time, the head of the Southern Command, General Laura Ridcharson, was already in the country, returning again to visit the places in the South Atlantic and continue negotiating and especially to monitor its supposed humanitarian bases in Neuquén, in the Chaco and in the extreme south, while propaganda and misinformation rages about a supposed Chinese base that is actually a scientific center, where Chinese scientists collaborate.

In this context, deputies from the Left Front demanded that Milei stop using the Malvinas for their political maneuvers.