Alberto Fernández: “Belgrano was convinced that education was the future of our homeland”

President Alberto Fernández said on Monday, June 20, Flag Day, on a new anniversary of the death of General Manuel Belgrano, that lawyer, economist, journalist and politician “was convinced that education lay the future of our homeland.” This was expressed when he led the act of Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag from the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), with more than 2000 fourth grade students, and accompanied by the Ministers of Education, Jaime Perczyk; of Culture, Tristan Bauer, and of Defense, Jorge Taiana.

Alberto Fernández led the act of Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag from the CCK | Photo: NA

“Today is an important day, commemorating the flag, one of our national symbols. Belgrano was not just another man in Argentine history, he was a singular man, unique perhaps, only comparable to San Martín, to Güemes, they were immense men who gave everything so that today we are a free and independent country (…) and who took care of the North with a huge woman, who is in that monument, Juana Azurduy, to whom the homeland also owes a lot”, said the president.
“Argentina is not that place without a destination that some want to ask us, it is a country that wants to stand up,” said Alberto Fernández.

Fernández maintained that Belgrano “firmly believed that in that freedom was the development of the peoples,” with “a courage and bravery that few men recognize.” Even when he returned from his military campaigns in northern Argentina, he was given as payment the equivalent of 80 kg of gold that he destined “for the foundation of schools because he was convinced that in education lay the future of our homeland.”

“Today we commemorate his figure is something we must do every day, because these heroes that the homeland had are the example that we must follow in times of great uncertainty that the world is experiencing,” said the president, and spoke directly to the students.

“You are all part of a generation that must have suffered from not having been able to share the hours of recreation that childhood demands but you are the ones who are going to make the future and for this you have these examples,” he said, while quoting María Elena Walsh. ” I am sure we have a huge future ahead of us. Argentina is not that place without a destination that some want to ask us, it is a country that wants to stand up. For you, so that you have once and for all the homeland you deserve,” he concluded.
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