On Saturday, in her glorious recital, Jairo told a horrifying experience of his native Cruz del Eje. One morning his sister does not stop trembling as she was getting home. Her parents were desperate. Do not know what to do. They feared that they died and went to knock on the door of the house of the village doctor. Dr. Arturo Illia was an overcoat over his pajamas, climbed onto his bike and pedaled to the Gonzalez home. Just saw the little girl said: "Hypothermia." "Not if my father understood what that word meant rare," he said Jairo. The wisdom of the doctor ordered something very simple and profound. The father to take out the shirt, coat and with his naked torso tightly hug the little girl which covered a couple of blankets. "Are not you going to give a remedy, doctor," asked the mother anxiously. And Arturo Illia said that these tremors there was no better medicine than the heat of the body of his father. When the little girl began to restore color. And at 5 am, when it was completely replaced, Arturo began his worn overcoat again, climbed onto the bike and disappeared into the night. Jairo said it was for the first time in his life. Perhaps this wisdom, this attitude of solidarity, the Franciscan austerity marked him forever. The theater was filled with tears. The applause in the room denoted that most people knew who was the country doctor who became President of the Nation. But outside I realized that many young people were unaware of the ethical dimension of that simple man and patriot. And I promised that today, this column was going to tell something of what was the republican legend.
came to the presidency in 1963, the same year that the world was shocked by the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and mourned the death of Pope Well John XXIII.
Maybe it was not a fluke. The same day he died Illia John XXIII was born as a good president. Today, all placed on the altar of the heroes of democracy.
I give some figures to only dimension that was his government. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1964 increased by 10.3% and 9.1% in 1965. "Chinese rates, we would say now. In the two previous years, the country had grown, had negative numbers. That year, unemployment was 6.1%. Took 23 million dollars of Central Bank reserves and when he had 363. It seems from another planet. But I want to be as rigorous as possible with history. Argentina was not a paradise. The government had a great weakness of origin. He had assumed that October 12, 1963 only 25.2% of the vote in elections where Peronism was banned. I give it one more fact: the brushed white vote 20% and therefore did not have the radical majority in Congress. Nor should we forget the bitter battle plan of the Wolf Vandor and Peronist labor to weaken him mercilessly. Of course the government also had errors like all governments. But the great truth is that Illia was overthrown by his successes and not by their mistakes. For its historical honesty, autonomy from the powerful inside and outside. He had the courage to put the knife in the two businesses even more bills today in the world: drugs and oil. Never forgave him much independence. That's why I made the cross and pointed the guns. So I say that it turned Illia fascist military Onganía defending the economic interests of foreign monopolies. He said it clearly: to me overthrew the 20 blocks surrounding the government house.
never a president in our country again traveled by subway or take coffee in the bolichones. Never again a president did what he did with the funds reserved: do not touch them. Born in Pergamino but took to Cruz del Eje where he served vocation of art to heal people and cure medicine societies and politics. There he met Don Marito Gonzalez's father, ie, Jairo. Attended the poor and fought for freedom and justice for all.
Humberto A Don Arturo Illia will miss the rest of our days. Because he did not steal. Because the government was much poorer than they came in and it came poor. His modest home and office were donations from neighbors and in the last days of his life in attending a friend's bakery. Ethics was sitting on the couch in Rivadavia. I was 11 when the coup was ripped from the house of government. My father who had voted and he deeply admired him grabbed his head and said, - we poor Argentines. We do not know the plays ahead.
And my dad was right. Many tragedy awaited this blessed country. I was 11 but I still remember his white hair, high forehead and a clear conscience.
came to the presidency in 1963, the same year that the world was shocked by the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and mourned the death of Pope Well John XXIII.
Maybe it was not a fluke. The same day he died Illia John XXIII was born as a good president. Today, all placed on the altar of the heroes of democracy.
I give some figures to only dimension that was his government. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1964 increased by 10.3% and 9.1% in 1965. "Chinese rates, we would say now. In the two previous years, the country had grown, had negative numbers. That year, unemployment was 6.1%. Took 23 million dollars of Central Bank reserves and when he had 363. It seems from another planet. But I want to be as rigorous as possible with history. Argentina was not a paradise. The government had a great weakness of origin. He had assumed that October 12, 1963 only 25.2% of the vote in elections where Peronism was banned. I give it one more fact: the brushed white vote 20% and therefore did not have the radical majority in Congress. Nor should we forget the bitter battle plan of the Wolf Vandor and Peronist labor to weaken him mercilessly. Of course the government also had errors like all governments. But the great truth is that Illia was overthrown by his successes and not by their mistakes. For its historical honesty, autonomy from the powerful inside and outside. He had the courage to put the knife in the two businesses even more bills today in the world: drugs and oil. Never forgave him much independence. That's why I made the cross and pointed the guns. So I say that it turned Illia fascist military Onganía defending the economic interests of foreign monopolies. He said it clearly: to me overthrew the 20 blocks surrounding the government house.
never a president in our country again traveled by subway or take coffee in the bolichones. Never again a president did what he did with the funds reserved: do not touch them. Born in Pergamino but took to Cruz del Eje where he served vocation of art to heal people and cure medicine societies and politics. There he met Don Marito Gonzalez's father, ie, Jairo. Attended the poor and fought for freedom and justice for all.
Humberto A Don Arturo Illia will miss the rest of our days. Because he did not steal. Because the government was much poorer than they came in and it came poor. His modest home and office were donations from neighbors and in the last days of his life in attending a friend's bakery. Ethics was sitting on the couch in Rivadavia. I was 11 when the coup was ripped from the house of government. My father who had voted and he deeply admired him grabbed his head and said, - we poor Argentines. We do not know the plays ahead.
And my dad was right. Many tragedy awaited this blessed country. I was 11 but I still remember his white hair, high forehead and a clear conscience.
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