At an event in his honor at the capital’s Kirchner Cultural Center, the activist, sculptor and painter asked for a minute’s silence “for the children of Israel, Palestine, Ukraine and Russia, for those who desperately want to leave their country for a new home find a just life and they don’t achieve it because it is taken away from them.”
Today we live with uncertainty. In the hardest moments of death and suffering, I always found the smiles of men and women who trusted that another world was possible. Peace is not the absence of conflict, but a permanent dynamic of relationships between people, he emphasized.
Likewise, he explained that democracy and human rights are inseparable values, because if the latter are violated, the former will weaken and disappear.
Peace is not given, it is built, and to achieve it one must be rebellious in the face of injustice, denial, misery and hunger, he stressed.
On the other hand, he warned of the consequences of coups, lawfare, lies and denial in Latin America.
“Here we are the survivors of the horror, but also the representatives of the struggle and the hope of building a more just and fraternal world for all,” he said, alluding to those who are trying to return to the past and dollarize the economy on La Libertad Avanza in Argentina.
Democracy means rights and equality for everyone, not for a privileged few. I defend the right of all people to live in dignity. I always have in my heart a great woman who gave us a lot: Evita (Eva Duarte de Perón, 1919-1952), who worked for the most humble. We must follow their example and stand with those in need, he said. He also called on citizens to critically participate in the elections on the 22nd.
Please do not vote for your executioners, but for clear policies that serve the population so that they do not harm public education and health. We need to save the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, which is not an expense but an investment, he said.
He also invited us to build a free, sovereign homeland integrated into the Latin American continent.
On this day, 43 years after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Pérez Esquivel was honored by the Minister of Culture Tristán Bauer and a concert by the Uruguayan group Agarrate Catalina took place.
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