The Fuegian veteran who settled in the Falkland Islands went to vote dressed as a soldier

Osvaldo Hillar, the ex-fighter from Tierra del Fuego who established his home in the Falkland Islands and who was accepted by the Ushuaia Civil Registry as a street address with the name of a comrade of clbad died during the 1982 war, voted this afternoon at the rural school "Entre Ríos", located 55 kilometers from the fuegian capital.

Hillar, 56, appeared at the district's 209 polling station, dressed as a soldier and decorated with chest decorations, for which he was applauded by the table authorities and military officials who monitored the vote, Telam witness this.

Accompanied by his wife Zulma, his son Matías and veteran and journalist Daniel Guzmán, Hillar had to overcome climatic difficulties to get to the polling station, because the crossing on the national road 3 is now With extreme caution to the presence of ice and a heavy snowstorm.

"I have fulfilled my objective which is to make visible the Argentine claim on the sovereignty of the islands and to do it through an action which, hopefully, can be multiplied and create a legal precedent" , said the veteran during a dialogue with Telam.

Guzmán said that during the trip to school "it snowed and we witnessed several accidents and dismissals due to poor weather conditions, we had to go very slowly," he said.

Hillar presented to the authorities of the table the national identity card (DNI) in which the street "Eduardo Antonio Vallejo", located in the Falkland Islands, appears as a fictional home.

Vallejos is his companion who died between 11 and 12 June 1982, while he was guarding in a trench and received shrapnel from a naval bomb that exploded two meters from him.

Both of them knew each other before going to the Malvinas because they were performing compulsory military service in the airborne artillery group 4 of La Calera (Córdoba) when they were summoned to the islands on 23 April 2001 and were immediately traveled with a previous stopover. in Comodoro Rivadavia.

"His death is something that has marked me a lot and his inscription in the document is a way of being able to take it wherever I go," said veteran Fuegian.

For PASO today, Fueguine Electoral Justice has set up an exclusive table for the "South Atlantic Islands" district, where three other people were legally domiciled in the Falkland Islands. .