Macri celebrates with the armed forces | Parade po …

President Mauricio Macri he took the war chariots down the street and deployed more than 4,000 soldiers, gendarmes, prefects and police on Libertador Avenue in the parade that began at noon and will continue until the afternoon, on the occasion of the 203rd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Soldiers with painted faces marched through the streets of Palermo's Buenos Aires neighborhood, in front of spectators' eyes, some of them anti-right representatives who decided to wear their heavenly handkerchiefs "for both lives" in front of the national flag. Other people, like Cecilia Pando, have taken this opportunity to post posters claiming what she regards as "political prisoners", former military men convicted of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship.

"We are all worried, General, go ahead, let's start," said the president to Brigadier General Jose Antonio Saumell Robert, commander of the military garrison of Buenos Aires, for the launch of the official exhibition.

Along with his wife, Juliana Awada, the vice-president of Together for Change was standing up. Miguel Ángel Pichetto. After taking advantage of Tucumán de la Patria to proselytize during the election campaign, the president did not deliver any speech from the city of Buenos Aires. In the skies of the city they flew over helicopters and military planes.

It's him Second military parade under the government of Cambiemos, which took them back under the bicentennial of independence in 2016, after a period of 16 years without military operations. Last year, the parade was suspended for "budget reasons", in the midst of the economic crisis that unleashed the government and after turning to the IMF.

In the preview of the show, the Argentinean army shared photos of tanks and tanks on social networks, while They urged users to upload images and videos of the show under the hashtag # EsteEsTuEmétrica, where are grouped the messages proclaiming "order and discipline". Some of the military present also uploaded their images, often holding the light blue scarf.

As in other military events, in the parade There was no dearth of deniers who demanded the release of convicted ex-prisoners. "Cnel Emilio Nani, Falklands veteran, can not walk today because he is illegally detained for defending the country," reads the poster of his relative, Perla Nani. .

In 2016, Nani was present at the military parade, but today he is serving a preventive house arrest in the "Cueva III" case, investigating crimes committed during the last dictatorship. in the clandestine detention center of the base. Military Air of Mar del Plata. Nani is being prosecuted for crimes of unlawful deprivation of liberty, aggravated by violence, threats and torments, as well as by homicide for cruelty and treason.

He was also present at the parade Cecilia Pando, with a poster with the same sentence but on the repressor Horacio Losito, sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of political prisoners in the famous "Mbadacre of Margarita Belén" of December 13, 1976.