Buenos Aires and Paris – In the midst of this pandemic and a national financial default, theArgentine government is issuing a new 5,000-peso note with the effigy of two prominent doctors, Cecilia Grierson and Ramón Carrillo.
Grierson was the first woman to graduate as a doctor in Argentina and Ramón Carrillo was the advisor who accompanied Perón asSecretary of Health during his first two terms.
But the same Carillo, in addition to being an admirer of Hitler, createdthe concept of the "ideal soldier" who would reject conscripts who were he considered as racial and gender "oddities." He also provided refuge to the Danish fugitive, Buchenwald camp doctor, CarlPeter Vaernet, allowing him to continue experiments with homosexuals to "heal" them.
"We emphatically reject the choice of such a character, that will sully Argentina with his image on its highest denominationbanknote," stated Dr. Shimon Samuels and Ariel Gelblung, Directors of International Relations and for Latin America of the Wiesenthal Center, respectively.
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