Cristina: “In 2003 the country earmarked 5% of GDP to debt and 2% for education, today 6.47% to education and 2% to debt”

Buenos Aires Province, September 16, 2011
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President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner opened in San Antonio de Padua the National University of the West (UNO).

The president said that this day is “kicking off a dream, a dream of Merlo and all the suburbs in the West. A dream that I know for a long time. I love UNO, one for all.”

She reminded young people missing in the “Night of the Pencils”. “Today is a special day, a September 16 which marks the Night of the Pencils, is the disappearance of young students and remember them inaugurating a national university, public and free is the best tribute we can give to these young people”, Cristina said.

He added: “This University of the West is not an isolated event, it’s part of the nine popular universities, national, public and free opened since 2003 to date.”

“So these universities also involve a strong democratizing higher education, university education in Argentina, which has to be one of the pillars to restore that country, where the children of workers like me, could go to college and from college build a career and a future, and from it with the rest of the Argentines to forge a different country as we are doing,” she added.

“Our Economy Minister Amado Boudou likes to repeat an equation: When Nestor came to Government in 2003, Argentina was spending 5% of its GDP to debt and 2% to education. Today we are putting to education 6.47% and 2% for payment of debt. This means a new model of country and society.”

On the other hand the president was moved to tears when she recommended the new film “Juan y Eva” by Paula De Luque. “I do not know if anyone ever will film a movie of Nestor and Cristina, it was also a love story, is and will be a love story,” she said haltingly.