By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com
August 29, 2026
Fernando de la Rúa left the Casa Rosada on December 20, 2001, through a side door, boarding a helicopter from the building's roof. It was not symbolic. It was a literal escape from a capital in flames, where 22 people had died in two days of protests, supermarkets had been systematically looted, and banks remained closed with deposits frozen.