Carlos Menem lanzamiento de vuelos espaciales desde Cordoba 1996

Salta: President Carlos Saúl Menem visits the city of Tartagal accompanied by the Governor of Salta, Juan Carlos Romero, and attends a ceremony where he opens the school year and announces that Argentina could have a launch pad for space flights (stratosphere). Also speaking is the Minister of Education, Jorge Rodríguez. Reference: President Menem pledged to a "frontal fight against illiteracy" when he inaugurated the school year yesterday in this city 2,000 kilometers from Buenos Aires and very close to the border with Bolivia. After announcing that the school year was going to be launched from his hometown of Anillaco, but the project was thwarted because the secondary school where the event was to be held was not completed, the President addressed the teachers' strike. Menem publicly asked his critics: "Who is doing more for public education than this government?" He then emphasized that "educational reform will be carried out slowly but surely," counting on "the teachers and students who selflessly continue their march alongside the people toward a destiny of greatness." For his part, Education Minister Jorge Rodríguez described the strike as "unitary and centralist" for failing to respect the individuality of the provinces. Furthermore, in his speech, he lamented that journalists were inquiring more about the strike than about the educational achievements claimed by the national government, which asserted that by the year 2000 "the educational transformation will be completed." In his message to Salta students and teachers, Menem surprised students and teachers with a revelation: Argentina will install a spaceflight base in Córdoba that will allow travel from Argentina to Japan in just 90 minutes. Space travel and crew changes require new knowledge, and Argentina cannot remain disconnected from this process at a universal level, the President declared, emphasizing the need to prepare children in schools for the future. The President added that "a spaceflight system will soon be put out to tender. From a platform that may be installed in the province of Córdoba, these spacecraft, with all the necessary safety precautions, will leave the atmosphere and rise to the stratosphere, and from there they will be able to choose where they want to go." Date: 5/3/1996 Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds DV-03727 Copyright DiFilm Archive - Buenos Aires - Argentina Inquiries regarding archival material: [email protected] Visit our website: http://www.difilm-argentina.com Follow us on:   / archivodifilm