UNSE Honors General San Martin

In the morning of August 14^th, in the gardens of UNSE was organized the main cultural event in commemoration of the 165^th Anniversary of Immortality of General Jose de San Martin. This event was organized under the auspices of Chancellor Natividad Nassif, Dean of FCEyT and Ing. Hector Ruben Paz. Among other university authorities of UNSE also participated Ing. Pedro Basualdo, Associate Dean at the College of Exact Sciences and Technologies (FCEyT); Lic. Elsa Ibarra, Associate Dean in the College of Forestry Sciences; Dr. Jose Maidana, Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture and Agro-Industry; Lic. Hugo Ledesma, Associate Dean of the College of Humanities, Social Sciences and Health Sciences.

The event begun with a solemn act in the presence of national Argentinean flag and the execution of the lyrical national anthem, led by Dra. Fabiana Gunter. Subsequently, the Vice Dean of FCEyT, had the honor to express his commemorative words to honor the founding father of Argentina, and brought into attention the great values embodied by San Martin, while reflecting on three different moments of Jose San Martin which in his written work reflected his convictions. Ing. Basualdo reiterated that San Martin “was a man with a great clarity in order to express and make reality his believes.”

The first letter mentioned was the one that San Martin had send to his Representative Godoy Cruz who was going to attend the Congress of Tucuman, moments before the declaration of Independence, and to whom he pressured to fight for these ideals. The Vice Dean added: “what a conviction to call upon his representative the need to terminate the delay and declare once and for all our independence, historians are the ones to evaluate while using the investigation and influence of the General during these critical moments.”

The second letter was sent to Simon Bolivar, where he mentioned the need to finish the war in South America, in favor of the wellbeing of its people. Ing. Basualdo emphasized above all the attitude of the general that was worried “for the destruction that the war itself produces, who with a deep reluctance became part of Bolivar, whom he recognizes as the liberator, while minimizing his deep and proper contributions,” underlining his great humility.

Lastly the engineer highlighted a message that was addressed to a teacher of Cuyo, to whom he expressed the importance of his work, while educating to its students not only reading and writing but also the spirit of patriotism to fatherland, so that in the future those educated by him would create a nation, “where he is sharing a thought to which we can adhere today without any doubt, from our place in a university community,”

The vice dean, noted that “the only mention of these fragments, taken by me out of coincidence, gives me an increasing desire to elaborate even more. I pray to God so that we may have the help to live under the guidance transmitted to us by our predecessors, amongst them perhaps the most important leader, General Jose Francisco de San Martin.