Vice President Julio Cobos replied to president Cristina Fernandez’ statements on national TV today. He said that “the repeated offensive allegations from Kirchner do nothing but “worry the Argentine people”, and he asked her to reconsider her decision of not travelling to China.

In the Senate, for about two hours, the two main UCR groups met, led by Gerardo Morales and Julio Cobos to determine the party leadership.

Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone, Argentina’s last dictator, is being judged from today along with five other generals and a Buenos Aires superintendent. They accused of 58 kidnappings, missing people, and tortures committed three decades ago in Campo de Mayo, the biggest clandestine detention centre in Argentina.

Vice President Julio Cobos was present along with the radicalism leadership today to pay tribute to former president Raul Alfonsin in his 26th anniversary of democracy, in Recoleta’s Cemetery.

Buenos Aires city representative Juan Cabandié, one of the children of the disappeared during the past military dictatorship and whose identity was recovered by Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, gave a chilling testimony about his appropriators.

At the end of the meeting, the elect deputy for Nuevo Encuentro Martín Sabbatella, supported that “it was an important meeting in terms of exchange of opinions”.

Party sources informed that the ballot for national deputies will be headed by Margarita Stolbizer followed by Ricardo Alfonsín.

Alfonsin´s state funeral, with full military honors and the assistance of hundreds of prominent Argentine and foreign personalities, begun at Thursday noon. His remains were provisionally deposited in the exclusive Recoleta cemetery of Buenos Aires, until a special mausoleum is built in that cemetery.

The governments of Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, among others, expressed their condolences to the Argentinean State and to the family of Raúl Alfonsín, during the acts to dismiss the remains of the ex-president.
The first chief who will visit the country will be Uruguayan Tabaré Vázquez, who will arrive this evening. [...]

Chancellor Jorge Taiana expressed today that “with (Raúl) Alfonsín Argentina went out of the isolation to which the dictatorship had submitted it and was returning to an independent foreign policy”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said yesterday evening after the death of ex-president Raúl Alfonsín that “his figure is indissolubly linked to the democratic recovery of Argentina after the most tragic dictatorship that we had”

Raúl Alfonsín dedicated his life to politics and to to materialize a commitment to democracy, justice and human rights.

Alfonsín’s physician Alberto Sadler declared this morning that the health of former president Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín, who is ailing from lung cancer, worsens because of a pneumonia.

Raúl Alfonsín, the man of Democracy, rejects the project for moving the elections to June.
He asks the opposition to unite and not to accept the proposal of the government.