Cristina Fernandez Criticizes The Milei’s Government Cultural Management
Argentinian former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Photo: X
May 25, 2025 Hour: 3:59 pm
Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) participated this Sunday in an event on the occasion of the 215th anniversary of the May Revolution, where she questioned the cultural management of the government of Javier Milei and warned about the risk of a new default.
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The former president led the Popular Culture Encounter, organized in a cultural hub located in a working-class neighborhood of the Retiro district of Buenos Aires, together with National Senator Celeste Jiménez Navarro and Argentine folk singer Teresa Parodi.
Fernández listed some of the cultural milestones of her government, including 900 films made with state funding, and questioned the actions of the current administration: “Did you realize that these guys didn’t build anything? Not a single damn school, not a single damn monument.”
“Their only work is to change the name of what others did or denigrate it,” she said in reference to the former Kirchner Cultural Center, now called the Palace of Liberty.
Referring to the recent relaunch of the state children’s channel Paka Paka, Fernández ironized about the change in appearance of the character Zamba: “They want to make Zamba lighter, not dark-skinned, they have made him up and at any moment he will appear with blue eyes.”
“How mediocre, how shallow. Creators of culture? Who is going to remember these guys in 20 years?”, she added.
The Peronist leader also referred to the impact of economic adjustment on the popular sectors and criticized the libertarian government’s debt policy.
“If this indebtedness continues, the next default is not too distant a fantasy,” she stated, and mentioned the Incentive Regime for Large Investments (RIGI) as one of the measures that could accentuate that risk.
The Peronist leader was greeted with chants from the public (“Patria sí, La dirigente peronista fue recibida con cánticos del público que dicen “Patria sí, colonia no” y su alocución fue precedida de la actuación de diferentes artistas populares.
To the rhythm of ‘Latin America’ by the group Calle 13, twenty dancers emerged from the audience and then moved on stage.
Then a row of coplas singers, a folk art from northwestern Argentina, entered the venue banging on its drums and then a rapper performed a protest song.