Her tall and lanky image, her features and her look, somewhat more formal but remarkably similar to that of the vice president Victoria Villarruelturned out to be an irresistible magnet for sympathizers, curious and even ex-combatants who arrived on Monday the 2nd to Plaza San Martín, in the Retiro neighborhood, for the official commemoration of the start of the Malvinas War, 42 years ago.
“I’m the sister, but if it helps, take the photo anyway.”he said with a smile Virginia de las Nieves Villarruelyounger sister of the vice president, who held a bouquet of white daisies while posing for the selfieswithout hiding some surprise at the repeated requirements.
Los hugs and photo requests towards her were repeated at the end of the official ceremony, in which the president Javier Miley He promised a new diplomatic “roadmap” for the recovery of the Islands.
Jealous of her family intimacy and her private life, the vice president stayed away from her sister, who is 45 years old and has four children, during the event.
Villarruel does not usually talk about Virginia in public, his collaborators claim time and again that they have no information about that link and they do not have photos shared on social networks, although he does do so with his godchildren., always with a smile. They are both daughters of Eduardo Villarruela member of the Army and a combatant in the war against Great Britain, which culminated in defeat and accelerated the end of the de facto government.
Once that commemoration was over, the vice president toured, surrounded by a sea of cameras and microphones, the cenotaph that remembers the names of the 649 combatants who died in combat for the recovery of the Islands.
The appearance, with a very low profile, of the vice president’s only sister, was not the only curious episode of the day: after arriving somewhat late at Plaza San Martín, the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichhe ran into a burly ex-combatant, named Volonté, who In a kind but assertive way he attached a light blue and white cockade to his chest..
“Hello minister, I see that you are not wearing the cockade, here I give you one,” said the ex-combatant to Bullrich, who gladly accepted the gift and joined, she too, in paying her personal tribute to the fallen, after the speech by President Javier Milei.
Cifelli’s “broom” sweeps up posters and busts in the CCK
Those statements by spokesman Manuel Adorni had a strong impact, who in one of his regular meetings with the press announced the change of name of the Centro Cultural Kirchner.
Beyond the announcement, which has not yet led to an alternative name, the current Secretary of Culture, Leonardo Cifellihas already ordered a series of inconspicuous changes, but intended to erase all vestiges of Kirchnerism and Peronism in the renovated old Post Office building.
They say from inside the building that, under the orders of the secretary, Different posters with “political content” were transferred to the warehouse that made reference to the former president. Also, a bust of the former head of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Hebe de Bonafiniwhich had been left there as a temporary display, was withdrawn from circulation, as was a mega poster of the Peronist march in front of the Argentine Room. While these changes are already taking place, the Government continues to think about a new name for the cultural center, now far from Kirchnerist folklore.
Poker of presidents at the event on July 18
While the conflict between the State of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas continues to leave its dramatic toll, inside and outside the Gaza Strip, the Jewish community of Argentina is preparing to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the attack on the AMIA headquartersnext July 18.
From the central entities, AMIA and DAIA, they have already begun with the invitations and the highest community leaders They are excited about the presence of different presidents of the regionin memory of the victims of that terrorist attack financed by Iran and in support of Israel.
According to community sources, the president of Paraguay, Santiago Penahas already confirmed his presence in Pasteur at 600, while there are already talks for the president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, also say present. Peña and Lacalle Pou could not be the only leaders, if they are Javier Miley and the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, they decide to attend. “It would be a very strong poker of presidents,” the organizers of the event enthused.
Libertarians, in search of Lule Menem in the Casa Rosada
The Corrientes libertarian saw something lost Lisandro Almirónlast week, in the hallways of Balcarce 50.
“I’m looking for Lule’s office, where is it?”asked several journalists who were circulating through the Casa Rosada, somewhat caught off guard, the deputy, who like many others recognizes the leadership of Eduardo “Lule” Menem in the national army that commands Karina Mileialways with the 2025 legislative elections as a central objective.
Coming from the National Autonomist Party (PAN) of Tato and Pocho Romero Feris, Almirón is today one of the main leaders of La Libertad Avanza in Corrientes, a province that radicalism has governed for 24 years, and that has elections for governor precisely the year that comes.
In the Casa Rosada they assure that the box office governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdeswill support the candidacy of his brother Juan Pablo, today mayor of Ituzaingó, and that there A possibility opens up to end the hegemony of the UCR in the Mesopotamian province. No one wanted to say who would be Milei’s chosen one to face him.
Villegas, from star to “forgotten” of the Foreign Ministry
After eight years outside the country, and having held for no less than a year the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the ambassador Federico Villegas Beltran He returned to the country in February.
While the government of Javier Milei located the former vice chancellor Carlos Foradori as Argentine representative before international organizations in that city of Switzerland, The months went by and Villegas – far from Kirchnerism’s positions on Venezuela or Nicaragua – still did not find a new assigned position..
“It is an example of the State being unintelligent”they ironically commented on Villegas, who appeared in public at the last event commemorating the attack on the Israeli embassy, along with the ambassadors. Marc Stanley (United States) and Yury Klymenko (Ukraine), who thanked him for his work against anti-Semitism and in defense of the rights of Ukraine.
Active in the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI) and speaking next week at a talk on the rise of anti-Semitism, Villegas Beltrán remains silent.