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born 1953 Argentina
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 19 February 1953) served as president of Argentina between 2007 and 2015., She had previously served as First Lady alongside her husband Néstor Kirchner, who chose not to run for re-election in 2007 in support of his wife. Ideologically, she and her husband were left-wing Peronists.
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Memory and freedom must be everybody’s daily exercise in order to prevent a new holocaust and a renewed violation of human rights.
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Where do you imagine Evita to stand: asking not to go back to the past, or next to the mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo?.
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In Latin America we can give cathedra about harassment and seizure.
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I feel honored to belong to a generation that was a propitious victim of state terrorism.
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The present time Latin America is going through, with its impressive natural and human resources, devoid of racial and religious conflicts, is a unique moment, and I believe that Argentina and Argentines are at the doorstep of an unprecedented opportunity.
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Our society needs women to be more numerous in decision-making positions and in entrepreneurial areas. We always have to pass a twofold test: first to prove that, though women, we are no idiots, and second, the test anybody has to pass.
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You can be sure that all and each one of us who have institutional responsibilities will raise not only our voice but will take concrete action against any sign of anti-Semitism. We are not willing to give away what has been a historic tradition in Latin America.
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The utopias of a better world and a more just society have to do with words, with the generation of dreams, with imagination, with a very important identity that overcomes languages and is the identity of the human condition, to be able to recognize our own image in every fellow man, in a different age. I believe that the key to our time lies in this respect for diversity.
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Peronism is so much like Argentines. We Peronists, just like all Argentines, are capable of spawning the most generous actions and the most sublime individuals, as well as the most despicable actions. That’s how contradictory we are. When kidnapping was rife in this country and people were made to disappear and thrown into the river, the defenders of press freedom went AWOL.
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