CFK on YPF: 'You build history the way you can, not the way you want'

While giving a speech in Tecnópolis, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner mentioned the recent decision to expropriate YPF and justified her administration’s comings and goings with the oil company by saying that “you build history the way you can, not the way you want.” 

“We are recovering this strategic instrument in 2012. It’s been nine years. Some ask why we never did this before. But you build history the way you can, not the way you want. History is not a straight path without stumbles and falls. It has its ups, its downs and its obstacles, which we must avoid,” she said.

Fernández de Kirchner gave her speech as she attended a ceremony in the Tecnópolis science theme park, where she introduced the new Tecnópolis TV network.