Nacho, the boy who cleans every Sunday the plates of the Malouin heroes

Every Sunday at ten o'clock in the morning, nine-year-old Nacho Elías appears with an orange stain, two similarly colored wipes and an aerosol, and begins to clean the names of the Falklands war heroes engraved on the granite slabs. Gray Cenotaph located in front of the monument. It sounds like a movie, but it's real.

"Mom, I want to go clean," surprised six-year-old Ignacio Elías, the day he learned that a group of fans from the University of Chile had painted the names of Malvinas heroes , remembers her mother, Mariana Nimitan, a 36-year-old teacher from Alvear neighborhood, tells the story of Nacho. And yesterday morning, the president of the Center for Former Falklands Soldiers of Rosario, Claudino Chamorro, accompanied by a large group of veterans and councilman Pablo Javkin, handed Nacho Elías the Distinguished Citizen's Certificate, in the cenotaph that cleans them. On Sunday

Like every Sunday, Nacho arrived early and smiling with his mother and father, Leandro, with his tool stove, his haircut with a long wick on the front side, wearing a white t-shirt Malvinas, camouflaged pants and gray shoes.

After the delivery, the photos and the applause of the handful of veterans, Ignacio told La Capital: "I told Javkin that if he were mayor, I would bet: he will send the GUM to take care of him and I will come twice. week. "

"I come every Sunday except when it's raining or it's raining at 50 degrees," remembers Ignacio, who revealed: "I told my grandfather Miguel, who today is He could not come because he's sick, he could bring me because my old ones did not bring me. " Chamorro explained to Ignacio during the brief act that "the Malvinas are something to never forget and that you share, with what you do, the same values ​​as those for which we fight." Your commitment and you are a little someone who leads the cause of the Malvinas. "

At his side, Councilor Javkin told Ignacio that "your friends, the Malvinas veterans, have proposed to the Council to distinguish you, as we do for the elderly because of their trajectory of years, because that when we were children like you, they did not speak to us A large part of the Falkland Islands was a forgotten question, and we voted all the councilors of all parties.

In turn, former combatant Fernando Vitale, one of the promoters of the distinction, recalled that his sister-in-law, accompanying Nacho's mother, had shown him one day the photo of a garden boy who was celebrating his birthday with a Malvinas cake. "I followed the topic, we discovered that he had come to clean the plates and on a Sunday he was on duty with the comrades, as we do every weekend, I see a boy who came with a fuenton, two wipes and an aerosol cleaner "he added.

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"Nacho has always been interested in the Falklands, but it's not that we've instilled him, he's a boy who's interested in social issues." If anyone needs anything, he'll "Help, just as he is interested in the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo." To read the names of the plates and when they vandalized them, he said "I want to go pure," remembers his mother.

"We are going to go," we said, but we did not come because my husband works in a bookstore, which brought him several books on Malvinas. We worked all day. One day he caught my father, his grandfather Miguel, and he told him that he wanted to come, but we did not bring him. So they came this Sunday at 10 o'clock, "he recalls.

In the end, a Malvinas veteran gave Ignacio a Newell jersey numbered 43 of the Aníbal Moreno flyer and bearing the signature of several players of the team.

"Someone who does not know him may think that we have him instilled him, but I do not know where he comes from, Nacho is a child stripped of any material object, who loves very much. history and politics ", explains the mother of Ignacio Elías. The example of fourth-grade student of the Albert Sabin School, Rueda and Camilo Aldao, in the Triángulo district, which since yesterday is the youngest distinguished citizen of Rosario.