President Javier Milei will speak this Tuesday from 10 a.m. on the national network
to commemorate the Day of the Veteran and those who fell in the Malvinas War, 42 years after the war conflict. The event will take place at the cenotaph located in Plaza San Martín, and the president will be accompanied by Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who will participate in a mass in the Buenos Aires Cathedral in the afternoon.
Starting at 10, the president will place a wreath at the Cenotaph dedicated to the 649 "heroes" who died during the war in the South Atlantic. He will lead the commemorative meeting in the Plaza de Retiro, where he will give an allusive speech about the Argentine claim for sovereignty of the Malvinas and the surrounding spaces.
It will be the
only participation of the President in the commemorative events
in which the State pays tribute to veterans, those who fell in the 1982 war and their families. This year
there will be no military parade
through the Buenos Aires avenues with the argument of the high cost that its logistics would demand.
Milei and Villarruel, together, in the midst of tensions
In Plaza San Martín, and amid reports of a tense atmosphere between the two,
Milei will once again share an event with Vice President Victoria Villarruel
, as they had already done during the tribute to the victims of the attack on the Israeli Embassy.
At 3 p.m., another official meeting is scheduled at Casa Rosada. The Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei and Manuel Adorni will rename the Indigenous Peoples room, apparently, with a name referring to the Heroes of Malvinas. In principle, the presidential spokesperson will be in charge of giving a speech to explain the name change of the place.
Last week there was remodeling work in the Hall and, like what happened with the transformation of the Hall of Argentine Women into that of the Próceres, the paintings that adorn the place were also changed.
Nor will the President be part of the Mass for the Fallen in Malvinas that, from 5 p.m., will be held in the Cathedral. Yes, Vice President Villarruel and other leaders of the ruling party will be part of the religious service.
This date has a special meaning for the Vice who, for years, has remembered the figure of her father, the late Lieutenant Colonel
Eduardo Villarruel
, as a "hero of the Malvinas."
Villarruel will be present at the Mass for the Fallen in Malvinas at the Buenos Aires Cathedral.
At the end of the year, in fact, he created the "Gesta de Malvinas" directorate within the Senate and put journalist
Nicolás Kasansew in charge of it,
who was Channel 7's envoy to the islands during the war. Until next Friday, in addition, the balconies of the Legislative Palace will be illuminated blue in tribute to the fallen.
The organization chart of the so-called "Malvinas Week" will begin this Wednesday: that day the Vice will lead, from 4 p.m., a meeting in the Blue Room of the Senate in which she will deliver Honorary diplomas to ex-combatants and members of the Fallen Relatives Commission.
On Thursday, April 4, meanwhile, the presentation of the book "The Altar and the War. The Chaplains of the Malvinas Gesta" by Professor Sebastián Sánchez will be held from 6 p.m. in the Provincias Hall of the Upper House and will be inaugurated the art exhibition "The Malvinas War from the Air" by the painter Carlos A. García.