Various Tierra del Fuego media outlets reported that Vice President Victoria Villarruel will participate this Wednesday, April 2, in the event held in Ushuaia in honor of the Veterans and Fallen of the Malvinas War. This date marks the 43rd anniversary of the Argentine landing on the southern islands and the temporary recovery of sovereignty over the archipelago usurped by Great Britain.
The information was announced by the Tierra del Fuego government itself, which reported that Villarruel had requested to speak . He also indicated that he would only participate in the event on the 2nd, but would not be present on the night of the 1st, nor at the vigil in Río Grande, nor at the vigil in Ushuaia .
Daughter of a veteran Malvinas Army officer, Villarruel has had and has a denialist discourse on the State terrorism that the last Argentine dictatorship implemented to fulfill the mandate of the CIA and the US Pentagon throughout South America , and standing out for her extensive history of visiting genocidaires in prison, including the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, and of remaining "very close" to many other military personnel prosecuted by democracy .
