President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner kept her silence over the train crash in Once and once again flew to Santa Cruz province, where she will visit the mausoleum at the Rio Gallegos cemetery where late president Nestor Kirchner, who would have turned 62 on Saturday, was laid to rest.
The Head of State departed to Río Gallegos from the military sector of the Metropolitan airport, where she had would meet Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo in her Los Sauces residence in Calafate.
Lugo traveled to Río Gallegos and visited Kirchner’s mausoleum, as the President will do the same in a private visit on Saturday. Her husband died of a heart attack on October 27th 2010.
The mausoleum in which he was laid to rest is an imposing 11 metre high building and was inaugurated in a private ceremony led by Fernández de Kirchner, son Máximo and daughter Florencia.
Meanwhile, the President once again made no public comments regarding the train crash in Once that killed 51 people and injured 702, following her Thursday meeting with Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi.
She has thus far only mentioned the tragedy in a communiqué released late Wednesday night, in which she expresser her deep sorrow and sent her condolences to the victims’ families.
Fernández de Kirchner is set to reappear in public on Monday in Rosario, Santa Fe, where she will lead the main ceremony of the commemoration of the bicentenary of the creation of national flag.
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