Today we honour Argentina’s greatest hero, General Jose de San Martin. Known as El Libertador, he not only liberated Argentina from Spain, but did the same for Peru and Chile. The story of his crossing the Andes is legendary in Argentina. I have a book about him that I’ve been trying to read for two years — reading history in a foreign language isn’t so much recreation as hard work! But I’ll get through it yet, because it’s a fascinating story.

Here’s a link to a YouTube video featuring a very stirring rendition of the Hymn to San Martin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flD1ktGpFTc

I don’t expect it will bring you to tears as it did me, but I hope you enjoy it anyway.