After an intense Sunday of mobilizations and crosses in commemoration of the Day of Memory, Truth and Justice on the occasion of a new anniversary of the last military coup, the government of Javier Milei decided to move forward in defining the tone that it will give to the celebration of the next Tuesday, April 2,
which remembers those who fell in the Malvinas War and renews the claim of sovereignty over the islands.
Until this Tuesday, the Executive plan sent to the different ministries indicated that the President will place a wreath at the Monument to those who fell in the 1982 war, which stands in Plaza San Martin.
In his cenotaph, as in the Darwin cemetery, in the Malvinas, are the names of the
649 Argentines who fell in the 74 days of the war
in the South Atlantic, in which
255 Britons and 3 islanders also died.
However, although several Cabinet ministers were invited to accompany him at that event at noon on April 2, at Casa Rosada they indicated this Monday that
no decision had been made
.
The Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, met this Monday
with the British ambassador in Buenos Aires, Kirsty Hayes,
but his team flatly refused to report on what topics the meeting “navigated.”
They also denied that it was due to a demand for the end of the military embargo that London maintains, and pointed out that joint activities are being organized, at least these days.
Most likely, they are polishing areas of cooperation.
In the Government House there was talk of an event for 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, which would coincide with the
flag-off that the Commission of Relatives of the Fallen in the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands is calling for.
The president of the Commission, Fernanda Araujo, coincidentally a deputy for Libertad Avanza,
also called a Tedeum in the Metropolitan Cathedral, which would be attended by the chancellor Diana Mondino and the secretary of the Malvinas Area, Paola Di Chiaro.
The celebration of March 24 this Sunday caused a furious confrontation between the left and Kirchnerism with the Government, which published a video in which it accuses human rights organizations of abusing the cause and Kirchnerism of forgetting the victims. of the guerrilla, while Vice President Victoria Villarruel denied that 30,000 disappeared during the state terrorism of the last dictatorship.
In this case, the vice president, identified with the most nationalist military sector - her deceased father was a war veteran -
sought to organize a military parade for April 2 and was unsuccessful
.
In principle, the Government justified the suspension by saying “
there is no money
.”
But it was learned that the final decision was to postpone the parade until next
July 9, when National Independence Day is celebrated.
At the traditional vigil in Rio Grande, where war veterans always spent their night from April 1 to 2, they waited for the presence of the vice president, who was very identified with the cause.
But Villarruel will not attend Tierra del Fuego.
Instead, from Wednesday the 3rd and throughout next week he will lead a series of activities in the Senate aimed at remembering those who died in the war.
Veteran's and War Memorial Day is no less controversial than other dates in Argentina.
There are those who claim the taking of the archipelago as a "deed" - the veterans, among others - and those who would prefer that the tributes be unified on June 10, the
Day of the Affirmation of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas Islands.
On several occasions the British authorities proposed holding a joint act in commemoration of those who died in the war, but Argentina never accepted it.
Now when Milei was looking for a line of dialogue with the United Kingdom and at the same time de-malvinizing the link between both states, a series of unilateral policies from London led the Government to present its claims.