From Malvinas to the supermarket in Montevideo, the fighter brother of the president of La Rural

From the beginning it was known that the inauguration of the Rural would be different and one of the best kept secrets was what happened at the end of an act that brought together farmers, entrepreneurs, only two governors, that of the Municipality and that of Corrientes and much of the opposition.

Suddenly the announcer announced the tribute to the Malvinas veterans who began to parade along the central courtyard with a badly damaged flag but with the symbolic value of having been rescued in the fighting by the soldiers who fought in the islands. From the stands shouted Viva la Patria and from the most modest official stage the Ceo de los semilleros, Alfredo Paseyro encouraged the others with a “the Falklands are Argentine”.

Among the veterans who were first honored in La Rural and on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of that war was Esteban Pino, elder brother of Nicolás, president of La Rural.

Stefano said Clarione, who despite his current 59 years, remembers every moment. At the age of 19, as soon as he finished his military service, they called him. And so his father let him know when he approached the manga in the Olavarría family camp where the Pino brothers were working with the hacienda.

At that moment Esteban, the eldest, with his brother Nicolás took a bus to Buenos Aires and presented himself to his company in La Tablada. It was complete but I saw a new soldier in combat gear crying uncontrollably along with his mother and I told my boss that I wanted to change with him and not out of patriotism, just out of emotion. In 48 hours he was at the Malvinas.

For 25 years Stefano I can’t talk about Malvinas. With the help of a psychologist and the support of the family, he wrote a book together with another companion from those battles, Germán Estrada. He is called Count Falkland. “We did it so as not to lose the memory”.

in the Falklands pgrew up in Monte Williams, 8 kilometers from Puerto Argentino.

“We were taken prisoner, it was terrible. For a week as prisoners of war we cleaned up Puerto Argentino and from there they took us on an English ship, the Northlands, to Comodoro Rivadavia. Then we spent a week in the barracks where they fed us everything we could eat in Malvinas ”.

Stefano acknowledgesthe enormous family strife. Many who did not have it and this has been devastating since I have been in Malvinas there have been more suicides than deaths in the war ”.

20 years ago he left the moorings and went to Uruguay. he lives in Montevideo. “I am the owner of a supermarket”, he defines himself very excited after having buried the peat that they brought in a bottle 40 years ago from the Malvinas in the sands of the central courtyard of Palermo. He did it together with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and the other veterans.