Wednesday, August 27, 2025, will be remembered as one of the saddest and most revealing days in recent Argentine politics. Once again, Kirchnerism showed its most brutal and miserable face: street violence.
President Javier Milei's caravan in Lomas de Zamora was savagely attacked by a mob of Peronist activists who, unable to debate ideas, resorted to the method that defines them: stones, bottles, and violence against the people who decided to change course.
The images speak for themselves. A fanatical horde, incited by Kirchnerist activists, threw objects at the vehicle transporting the president and his entourage. There were injured people, detainees, and a security operation that had to evacuate Milei in an armored vehicle to preserve his life.
The contrast is stark: while the libertarian government calls for joyful caravans, with Argentine flags and hope for the future, Kirchnerism responds with stones, hatred, and the same resentment that has characterized them for decades. But stones have a history in Argentina. Not all stones are the same.
The people's stones
In Plaza de Mayo, in front of the Casa Rosada, since 2021 thousands of stones have lain, placed by the relatives of the victims of the pandemic. Each one bears a name, a date, a memory. They are stones of pain, memory, and justice.
They represent Argentines who lost their loved ones while then-president Alberto Fernández violated his own lockdown at the Quinta de Olivos, organizing clandestine parties, while the “committee of infectologists” imposed brutal restrictions, destroying the economy, education, and the mental health of millions.
Those stones are the silent cry of a betrayed people. They were not thrown in hatred; they were placed with love and mourning. They do not seek to hurt anyone, but to remember what the political power wanted to hide: that there were thousands of preventable deaths, that the endless lockdown was a social sentence, and that behind the health narrative lay corruption, the VIP vaccination scheme, and the impunity of the caste.
The stones in Plaza de Mayo are a tribute from the true people, who do not forget their dead and who demand justice for Alberto Fernández's criminal lockdown and the dictatorship of the infectologists led by Pedro Cahn.
