Chile: Cristina Kirchner to return San Martin's letter to O. Higgins

The O. Higginian Institute of Chile today requested that the letter sent by José de San Martín to Bernardo O. Higgins, found during a search at his home, be returned in his country by the former president.

Cristina Kirchner

It has in the city of El Calafate in Santa Cruz.

The authorities of this entity, dedicated to the preservation of the historical heritage linked to the figure of the trans-African supreme leader, have expressed the wish to recover this document after the letter that led to the power of the exmander was known, according to the one -this
in his book "Sincerely" recently published.

In the book, the former president reveals that this letter was a gift from the Head of State of the Russian Federation,

Vladimir Poutine,

during an official visit that she made in this country.

He said: "This is for you, President." When I opened the box and I could see San Martin's original letter to O. Higgins, I almost died. "I looked at him and asked him," And this? "Where did they get it?" Said the current national senator, who badured that Putin had acquired the letter in New York.

In this regard, Yerko Torrejón, historian and general secretary of the Institute O. Higginiano, told the newspaper El Mercurio that "no matter how it was carried out, it is desirable that one document of this nature be returned to Chile ".

Sergio Martinez Baeza, president of the Chilean Society of History and Geography, said that the letter was in the country before his disappearance and that it was part of the record of the writer, historian and man political Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna.

The loss or theft of this document by San Martín occurred in 1979, when a change was made to the documents of the Institute. "We hope that there is a formal initiative of the government authorities for their recovery," said Torrejón in statements to the Chilean press.

Telam Agency