Dressed as a soldier, the Fuegian veteran who settled in the Falkland Islands voted

Osvaldo Hillar, a Tierra del Fuego veteran 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 clbadmate who died at the war of 1982, voted this afternoon at rural school "Entre Ríos", located 55 kilometers from the capital fougienne

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 place of voting, because the pbadage on the national road 3 is now With extreme caution. to the presence of ice and a strong snowstorm.

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

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Guzmán said that during the trip to school, "it was snowing and we have witnessed several accidents and omissions due to adverse weather conditions. We had to go very slowly, "he said.

Hillar presented the national identity card to the authorities of the table. Eduardo Antonio Vallejo Street in the Falkland Islands appears as a fictitious 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.

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Both had known each other since before going to the Malvinas because they were doing their military service in the airborne artillery group 4 of La Calera (Córdoba) when they were summoned to the islands on 23 April 82 and immediately traveled with a previous stopover to Commodore 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 today's PASO, Fueguine's electoral justice set up an exclusive table for the "South Atlantic Islands" district, where three other people were legally resident in the Falkland Islands.