“I don’t know what opposition politician might approach people and arouse as much love as Cristina,” says Rosalía, a young woman who was early this Sunday at the already emblematic corner of Juncal and Uruguay to express her support for Cristina Fernández de Kichrner , and got a photo with her. Because Cristina left her home in Recoleta this followingnoon; there she greeted Rosalía and returned shortly before eight o’clock. On each occasion she greeted, signed books, took photos and thanked the demonstrators who continued with the vigil that began last Monday when the request for her sentence was made known, which seeks to ban her from the “Roads” case.
It was like that until late at night, the streets were cleared once more and even so, the Buenos Aires government announced that the infantry were once once more in the area, and on the prowl. And that they would act once more if the demonstration interrupted circulation. The mobilization cleared up, but the streets were taken until 10:15 p.m. by the assault cars that did occupy the streets for three consecutive blocks, more than twenty motorcycles with armed troops and two fire hydrants in sight, the product of a new ill-advised decision by the right, on a war footing, in front of a mobilized people that expresses without conflict, their unconditional love for CFK.
La Cámpora denounced that the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, advanced with hydrant trucks from the City Police to “intimidate 20 kids sitting peacefully on the sidewalk”, who were demonstrating in support of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in the vicinity of your house.
win the street
“What you give with love comes back multiplied”, the tone of the phrase expresses a profession of faith. But Sergio, who pronounces it this followingnoon in front of CFK’s home, is not religious. He is a worker in the social economy, he is a “walker” he explains, and since Tuesday he follows every step of “the boss” to show her commitment to “the ideas and actions” that she inspires. “She gives us her love and that comes back, that’s why we come back every day, because she is the greatest leader in this country,” reasons Sergio. That is what the right is trying to check, both from the judiciary with the request to condemn CFK that caused “this regrouping of Peronism,” explains Alberto –a taxi driver who arrived from Lomas del Mirador–, as well as with the unnecessary hostility expressed on Saturday with the fencing around his home and the police repression of the protesters ordered by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. A device that was incredibly reactivated this Sunday night with an excessive police presence, although until midnight there had been no incidents.
Perhaps it was because “yesterday we won the street, they had to raise the fences, they had to give in”, as Sergio sentenced at noon on Sunday, while smiling. It did not reach the repression or the acts of provocation: among others, the placement of two containers loaded with rubble and broken bricks in Paraná and Santa Fe, while the massive and peaceful demonstration in support of CFK was taking place, as if inciting a confrontation with the port police. It didn’t happen. “They mightn’t, the street is ours, once once more,” explains Sergio while he applauds the cars that, past noon, circulate around the corner and honk their horns in adherence to the popular support mobilized behind the figure of the vice president.
A Sunday without fences
This Sunday there were no fences, and until night no riot police were seen. And those who had stationed themselves in front of the door of his home were able to exchange excited greetings with CFK. Both at noon and at night, Cristina signed copies of the book “Sinceramente”, she took photos of herself and thanked those who were there. At noon, while the street was free, the same demonstrators made sure that no one got off the sidewalk. An attitude “disciplined from love and respect, something that they, from the right, cannot understand”, evaluates a neighbor from “near here”, school director, while flying “the wiphala, the flag of the original peoples ”.
“She is our support, hope and the only one who can make the construction of a more supportive country a reality, that’s why we have to take care of her, and take care of this love that we have for each other” details Mirta who is a doctor and came from Caballito. She talks regarding those 12 years where “the rights were recovered”, and she gets emotional. “You listen to people and you realize that they speak with reason, people know why they are here,” adds Amalia, who watches everything from the corner and sways to the beat of the slogans.
Without falling into provocation
“My name is also Cristina and I’m the same age as you,” says a history teacher who came from Barracas. “I’m not a Peronist, but with Néstor and Cristina I saw that human rights policy might become a reality,” she explains. The paradigm of that perspective allows today “not to fall into provocations” she adds. “Our people already know it, here no one did justice by their own hand when political violence had left us 30,000 missing companions” adds another woman who, by her appearance, might be a resident of Recoleta, but she is a retired teacher and lives in Flores.
People were arriving without haste and without pause, persistently. Around five in the followingnoon, with the arrival of a column from the Ateneo Néstor Kirchner de Ituzaingó, the hundreds of supporters who remained on the corners filled the street. And the four traffic agents who were monitoring traffic moved to nearby corners to divert motorists from “Cristina’s corner.”
“When she governed – Alberto elaborates – I worked in (González) Catan and in La Salada, I had a remis, and people entered the car through the window because the doors might not be opened because the cars were so old, they were places tremendously poor, but on the weekend you smelled the grill, people had their barbecue, we might go on vacation, the kids might go to school, and we were even able to change the car,” he says. Beneath a blue hood and black chinstrap, dark skin highlights his watchful gaze as the shadows of sunset begin to cover the collective dance that follows the rhythm of the slogans, and a revitalized Peronist march.
