President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner urged Argentines «to make an effort to understand the moment the country and the world are undergoing,” while heading a ceremony to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the Vuelta de Obligado battle in the Buenos Aires area of San Pedro. Her words sounded as a message after her administration announced further cuts in subsidies to major companies and affluent neighbourhoods.
Fernández de Kirchner defended the implementation of the National Sovereignty Day and urged Argentines “to understand what we have done in the last few years, and defend and make up for our mistakes and deepen those things that are alright.”
Likewise, the Chief of State talked about the need of giving a new meaning to the “national sovereignty” from a fight of ideas angle. “We must lead a battle of ideas for intellectual sovereignty” within the framework of “a project that began in 2003” and she urged young people «to fight come hell and high water.”
“These ideas live in most Argentines, among the thousands of young people who got involved in politics once again. I feel proud of the young people that got involved in politics again with joy, to build and celebrate and that they feel the nation like their true home and see its authorities not like enemies, but like the people who protect them,” the President added.
Fernández de Kirchner was accompanied by Cabinet members and Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli and was received by San Pedro Mayor Pablo Guacone.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald