BACKLASH OVER ARGENTINA'S NEW 5000 PESOS NOTE

According to an article in La Nation dated 16 May 2020, Casa de Moneda, the printing facility of the Banco Central de la República Argentina, has begun production of new 5,000-peso banknotes pursuant to resolution 158 of 16 April 2020, with 20 million notes scheduled for delivery in June, followed by 60 million notes in each of the next three months. The front reportedly features portraits of Ramón Carrillo, the Prime Minister of Health of Juan Perón, accompanied by Cecilia Grierson, the first Argentine doctor. The back depicts the Malbrán Institute.

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Argentina new 5,000-peso note reported for introduction in 2020 (https://banknotenews.com/?p=29539)

Argentina's Jewish community was shocked to find that the country decided to print a new banknote with face of a doctor who expressed support for Nazi ideology and supported Josef Mengele's cruel experiments on Jews at Auschwitz.

One of the new notes is a 5,000 peso bill (around $73.5) and has the face of Dr. Ramon Carrillo, a doctor of sanitation known for his support of the Nazis, according to a Ynet report on Wednesday.

Israel's ambassador to Argentina tweeted on Monday: "When we say ‘never again,' in reference to the Holocaust, there is no point in commemorating someone that, at least sympathizes with this ideology."

British Ambassador to Argentina Mark Kent also expressed disapproval of the decision to put Carrillo on the banknote and tweeted on Monday: "Nazism was the greatest evil of the 20th century, It led to the Holocaust. The death of millions of innocents. We should not commemorate anyone who participated in this terrible episode."

However, Carrillo's grandson, Ramon Carrillo, has been pushing back on Twitter, sharing a picture of a gift given to his grandfather in 1954, when he served as health minister at the time, by Israel's then-health minister Yosef Serlin.

To read the complete article, see:
Jewish community, foreign officials reject image of Nazi supporter on new banknote (https://www.jns.org/jewish-community-foreign-officials-reject-image-of-nazi-supporter-on-new-banknote/)

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