Argentina: Multitudinous caravans throughout the country in tribute to Néstor Kirchner 10 years after his death

 

The "Caravan of a Thousand Flowers" surrounds the Plaza de Mayo, in the city of Buenos Aires, and also in other cities of the country in tribute to the former president, a decade after his death.

Thousands of automobiles occupied the streets around the Plaza de Mayo very early and the Caravan of the Thousand Flowers, in homage to Néstor Kirchner, spread through the most important avenues of the City of Buenos Aires. At around 6 pm, President Alberto Fernández greeted the citizens gathered in the Plaza de Mayo from behind the window of his office in the Casa Rosada, where he was seen wearing a mask and with his hand raised, replicating the V for Victory. 

The citizens, from their vehicles and wearing masks, brandished Argentine flags with the figure of the former president, in some accompanied by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and chanted slogans allusive and in support of the Government. 

Groups of militants painted the face of Néstor Kirchner in large dimensions on the floor, where they placed flowers, and placed an inflatable figure of the former president. 

The Plaza was also filled with posters with different slogans, including one that spread across the square with the legend: "Impossible to put out so much fire" and several that read: "Néstor lives" and "Néstor no se died". The call was made by the Frente de Todos and the slogan alluded to the famous phrase of the former president towards the militancy: "A thousand flowers will bloom." 

The caravan was also called by the Central de Trabajadores de Argentina (CTA), led by Hugo Yasky,