Javier Milei changed the name of the CCK: it will be called Palacio Libertad and will be presented at an event this Saturday

Javier Milei changed the name of the CCK: it will be called Palacio Libertad and will be presented at an event this Saturday

October 10, 2024 – 11:45

The event, which will serve as a relaunch of the cultural center, will be this Saturday at 7 p.m. President Milei will be the only speaker and the entire Cabinet is expected to be present.

The Government confirmed through a decree by President Javier Milei the name change of the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), which will now be called the Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Palacio Libertad Cultural Center.

The Government confirmed through a decree of the president Javier Milei the name change of Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), which will now be called Palacio Libertad Cultural Center Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. For the presentation, the president will lead an event this Saturday.

The new name was already known but had not yet been made official. Now the Government did it through an Emergency Necessity Decree (DNU).

The event, which will serve as a relaunch of the cultural center, will be this Saturday at 7 p.m. President Milei will be the only speaker and the entire Cabinet is expected to be present.

Embed – Palacio Libertad on Instagram

The Government has already presented the new aesthetic and even changed the URL of the page of the now ex-CCK, whose name has always been the cause of political controversy.

The history of CCK

The building was built by order of Ramón J. Cárcano, national director of the Post Office in 1890, according to a project by the Frenchman Norbert Maillart, who was summoned within the framework of a building renovation in Buenos Aires financed with the enormous resources of the agro-export model. At the end of the 20th century it was disaffected from the National Post and Telegraph Company.

As the commemorations of the bicentennial of the May Revolution approached, President Néstor Kirchner decided to install the “Bicentennial Cultural Center” in the historic building of the Central Post Office and called, in 2006, an international competition of preliminary projects in order to decide what new I use it to achieve this purpose.

The works began in 2010 under the presidency of Cristina Kirchner, who inaugurated a first part that same year. They continued until 2012 when it was also named the Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Cultural Center, in honor of the then deceased former president.

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