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These games will feature a record number of delegations, with more than 4,400 athletes representing 168 countries, including refugee teams. As a special detail, the International Paralympic Committee confirmed that Eritrea, Kosovo and the Kiribati Islands will make their debut at the world’s top sporting event.

Argentina will participate in 14 sports disciplines in total, of which only one is made up of teams: Los Murciélagos, who will seek to win the gold medal after losing the final of the previous Paralympic Games against Brazil.

Our delegation will have 13 more athletes than at the Tokyo 2020 Games and will seek to increase the national medal count. Our focus is on Athletics and Swimming, disciplines that gave us 4 silver medals and 3 bronze medals in Japan. Also, our para taekwondo athlete Juan Samorano will fight to get a new medal in the up to 75 kilos category.

The opening ceremony will take place between the Champs-Élysées and the Place de la Concorde and will start at 6:00 p.m. (French time) hosted by artistic director Thomas Jolly. Some 50,000 people will attend the opening.

To follow the opening ceremony and all the competitions that will take place in Paris from August 28 to September 8, we leave you the official Youtube page of the 2024 Olympic Games.

Paralympic Games on Youtube.

Let’s go Argentina!

A new edition of Travel Sale, the event in which dozens of travel agencies offer promotions for both national and international destinations, began today and will be extended until September 1st. The proposal includes Discounts and financing on transportation, accommodation, tourist packages and excursions. The initiative, created by the FAEVyTalso includes promotions on travel assistance, cruises with special benefits and discounts of up to 50 percent and bonuses on selected products.

The Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Sports, Daniel Sciolicelebrated this tenth edition of Travel Sale, noted in this regard that it is key “interpreting new challenges to reach consumers in an increasingly competitive way” and stressed that “It is important that all this offer is made known, even more so now that credit has returned to Argentina”.

“The current scenario requires us to innovate, to be creative, it urges us not to wait for the tourist to come, but to go and look for him, promote, explain what it is all about”he added, highlighting the decision of “support this initiative with the conviction that public-private partnership provides the key to growth and development of this sector, which is strategic for the economy”.

For her part, the Undersecretary of Tourism of the Nation, Yanina Martinezhe stressed “the positive impact of an action such as Travel Sale both in the tourism sector and in the community of each of the destinations” and mentioned “The efforts of the private sector, which we will strongly promote from the public sector, in favor of the growth and development of our country, which needs it so much”.

On May 26, 1812, the Triumvirate appointed General Manuel Belgrano commander of the Army of the North, who established his Command in San Salvador de Jujuy. There, he received the remains of the forces returning from Huaqui: 800 men, without weapons or resources, affected by malaria and demoralized.

Belgrano had to reorganize them, rearm them, reestablish discipline and encourage the population. To do this, he became rigorous and inflexible with his subordinates; he created various companies, such as the Guides, the Scouts, the Hunters and the Corps of Castes; he restored the morale of the troops, which amounted to 1,500 men, and received 400 rifles, which were very useful to complete the armament.

To increase patriotic fervour, and in commemoration of the second anniversary of the May Revolution, he had a flag blessed in the city’s Cathedral.

In July, reports arrived that a large royalist force, under the command of Pío Tristán, was advancing through Upper Peru towards Humahuaca, and Belgrano received orders from the Triumvirate to retreat to Córdoba, where the Army of the North would join the Rioplatense troops. In the instructions received, he was ordered to destroy everything that could be useful to the enemy to hinder their marches and resources.

Neither the call to arms of all citizens between 16 and 35 years of age, nor the formation of an irregular cavalry corps, the Determined Patriots, under the command of Eustoquio Díaz Vélez, allowed Belgrano to resist.

It was thus that, on July 29, 1812, Belgrano issued an order addressed to all the people of Jujuy, ordering the withdrawal:

“People of the province: since I set foot on your soil to take charge of your defense, in which the Most Excellent Government of the United Provinces of the Republic of the River Plate is interested, I have spoken to you with truth. Continuing with it, I tell you that the weapons of Abascal under the command of Goyeneche are approaching Suipacha; and the worst is that they are called by the unnatural ones who live among you and who do not lose any means so that our sacred rights of freedom, property and security are outraged and you return to slavery. The time has come for you to show your heroism and for you to come to join the Army under my command, if as you assure you want to be free, bringing us the flintlock weapons, knives and ammunition that you have or can acquire, and reporting to justice those who have them and remain indifferent in view of the risk that threatens you of losing not only your rights, but the properties that you have. you have. Landowners: hurry to remove your cattle, horses, mules and sheep that you have on your farms, and at the same time your charquis, towards Tucumán, without giving me reason to take measures that will be painful to you, also declaring you traitors to the Fatherland if you do not do so. Farmers: secure your crops by extracting them for that place, with the understanding that by not doing so you will incur the same disgrace as those. Merchants: do not waste a moment in bundling your effects and sending them, and likewise any that are in your possession that belong to someone else, because if you do not do so you will suffer the same penalties as those, and in addition the effects that are found will be burned, regardless of who they are in your possession and to whom they belong. Let everyone understand that anyone who is found outside the advanced guards of the army in all the places where they are, or who tries to pass without my passport, will be shot immediately, without any form of trial. That the same penalty will be suffered by anyone who by his conversations or actions attacks the sacred cause of the Fatherland, whatever his class, state or condition. That those who inspire discouragement, whatever their character, will be shot equally with only the testimony of two witnesses. That all those who at my first order are not ready to march and do not do so with the greatest scrupulousness will be considered traitors to the Fatherland, whatever their class and condition. I do not expect that there will be a single one who will give me reason to put into execution the aforementioned penalties, because the true sons of the Fatherland I promise will strive to help me, as lovers of such a worthy mother, and the unnatural ones will obey blindly and hide their wicked intentions. But if this is not the case, know that considerations of any kind are over, and that nothing will be enough to stop me from fulfilling what I have arranged.”

Headquarters of Jujuy, July 29, 1812. Manuel Belgrano.

Almost a month later, on August 23, 1812, the mobilization began, in which men and women, old people and children, rich and poor, Spaniards who embraced the revolutionary cause, creoles and mestizos carried out the General’s order. The population left only a bare field in front of the enemy, so as not to provide them with houses, food, livestock, merchandise or anything else that was usable. The crops were harvested or burned, the houses destroyed and the commercial products sent to Tucumán.

They traveled 360 km along the Camino de las Postas (parallel to the current National Route 34), on foot or in carts, to Tucumán, where General Belgrano committed his “brilliant disobedience” and, encouraged by the triumph of the rearguard under the command of Eustoquio Díaz Vélez over the royalist vanguard in the battle of Las Piedras, decided to give battle to Pío Tristán in Tucumán.

For the sacrifice made, on May 25, 1813, General Belgrano donated a flag to the Cabildo of San Salvador de Jujuy, as a reward and tribute to those people who accompanied him in the exodus of August 23, 1812, and who made possible the triumphs of Las Piedras, Tucumán and Salta. Its fabric is made of satin, consists of three panels and has the coat of arms of the Assembly of the Year XIII painted on it. This flag is known today as the National Civil Liberty Flag and, since 2015, it has been a national symbol.