the presidential spokeswoman Gabriela Ceruti received the Minister of Equality of Spain Irene Montero in Pink House. Cerruti led the Spanish official through different parts of the government palace, and showed her the stones that the relatives and friends of Covid victims had deposited in May Plaza in 2021, in tribute to those killed during the pandemic. These stones had been transferred to Casa Rosada and arranged in one of its patios.
“After Covid, the right has put its stones remembering the dead of Covid. In the middle is the pyramid with a fountain around it that the city government has fenced off so that we don’t put our feet in it,” Cerruti told the official. Spanish woman who silently nodded to the tour.
Montero is in the country to participate in the XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbeanorganized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and UN Women.
You manage to measure that Gabriela Cerruti tells a Minister of Spain that there are the stones that “the right” put for the dead of Covid. This is how he laughs in our faces. Gentlemen, I neither forget nor forgive.???pic.twitter.com/IB3L9c6qp7
– Diego Álzaga Unzué (@atlanticsurff) November 10, 2022
This event, which this year celebrates its 45th anniversary, is attended by representatives of different governments as well as United Nations agencies, academics and members of civil society linked to feminist movements. Its about main regional intergovernmental forum of the United Nations on women’s rights and gender equality.
Together with the presidential spokeswoman, President Alberto Fernandez He also received Montero, with whom he discussed the advances in gender and diversity carried out by both countries. Both politicians, over lunch, analyzed the current panorama on the rights of women, lesbians, transvestites, trans and non-binary people in Europe Y Latin Americawith the idea of working together on this area.
In addition to Cerruti, the meeting was attended by the Spanish ambassador to Argentina, Maria Jesus Alonso; the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Ayelen Mazzina; the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Presidency, Vilma Ibarra and the Secretary for Equality and Diversity Policies, Maria Cristina Perceval.
Montero also met with Cristina Kirchner, with whom they shared a few minutes in the Senate. The visit was recorded in a tweet published by the vice president.
Together with my colleague Irene Montero, Minister for Equality of Spain, who visited me today in the Senate. pic.twitter.com/Pk0jFjbfpM
– Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) November 10, 2022
by RN
