MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Mrs Kirchner promises to keep fighting “for all the Argentine people”
Thousands turned out in Plaza de Mayo to pay homage “I will keep fighting for all the Argentine people” was President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner first public message following the death of her husband and former president Nestor Kirchner early Wednesday morning in the Patagonian resort of El Calafate.
The family priest Carlos “Lito” Álvarez, from the Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús Church in El Calafate, who accompanied Mrs Kirchner at Los Sauces residence, was in charge of making the announcement. The priest told a journalist from Lago Argentino Radio (LU23) that he “saw” the Argentine Head of State “very strong, with a strong spirit.”
Alvarez said the former president will lie in state in Government House and later returned to Santa Cruz, the province where he was born and stared his political career. The official medical report is that Kirchner suffered a massive non traumatic heart-respiratory arrest followed by sudden death.
El Calafate Mayor, Javier Belloni, also visited the Kirchners and affirmed that “the president is full of strength. I'm convinced that the national and popular project will continue.” Belloni also said that he talked to her son, Máximo, who told him that “we'll fix this by working and thinking about work.”
Meanwhile in Buenos Aires government ministers and a massive crowd turned out to pay homage to former President Kirchner in Plaza de Mayo square next to Government House (Casa Rosada).
After the news of Kirchner's death was made known, thousands of followers showed up at the square with flowers and signs to express their condolences and their support for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's government.
Government officials moved with difficulty among the crowd that sang out the former president's name and expressed its support to CFK.
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, led by Hebe de Bonafini, were also present and little later, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo arrived.
Aside from the groups that arrived at the square, thousands of people not belonging to any organization also showed up.
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Read all commentsMy suggestion is: stop fightin', and better try to get it all together and come to an agreement with all of us, before it's too late for you and our Nation. Thanks.
Oct 28th, 2010 - 05:37 pm 0Eh? you elected her, and is your country is such a bad way under her regime (I mean relatively of course).
Oct 28th, 2010 - 10:31 pm 0@ WestisBest #2 I did not vote for this woman, and I've never liked her. She's not an honest person. I don't consider this woman capable of doing something valuable for this country. Apart from giving poor jobless people our money, to make them believe they're not poor anymore, she's incapable of doing what needs to be done. I consider her a foul liar. Socialism is a mental illness and that's why so many people in this country love her and her husband, because they love to receive money without any effort and think that Cristina and Néstor are Evita and Perón reincarnated.
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