The heroes return to banknotes

President Alberto Fernández will head this Monday to the presentation of a new series of banknotes through which the illustrations of animals will be replaced with heroes and heroines that are part of Argentine history. It will be in an act scheduled for 5:00 p.m. in the Bicentennial Hall, at the Government House, official sources said.

“What we are doing is putting our heroes and heroines, the men and women who made history in Argentina, back on the banknotes. With this we recover our social identity,” President Fernández said last Friday in an interview with Radio with you.

“We as a country have a historical identity and we have to put our most valuable men and women in our hands, in the money that we handle every day,” added the head of state.

Fernández ruled out the issuance of new bill denominations -the $1,000 bill was introduced at the end of 2017- and considered it a “simplified reading” to link the introduction of a new design with the need to issue papers with larger denominations.

The President, without specifying the names of the heroes and heroines that will make up the new family of banknotes, said that the initiative has been underway for “two years.”

Last year, during the act for the 171st anniversary of the death of the Liberator José de San Martín, the head of state said that “San Martín will soon be on our bills” and that “Belgrano, Juana Azurduy, and men and women who gave everything for Argentina to live”.