20 JULY ... DIA DEL AMIGO ... Friend Day is a day to celebrate friendship proposed. Was established in Paraguay on July 30, 1958, while in Argentina and Uruguay proposed the day when the man reached the moon (July 20, 1969). It is celebrated in other Latin American countries like Chile the first Friday in October.
Argentina
in Argentina created a similar date, a decade later as "the Friend Day" with another origin. Its creator was Dr. Enrique Ernesto Febbraro, a native of Argentina city of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires party, which merit to his initiative and municipal decree, the Provincial Capital of Friendship, and also founded the World Association also there for Understanding.
Febbraro was a professor of psychology, philosophy, history, musician and dentist, a founding member of the Rotary Club of San Cristobal district and neighborhood Eleven (Buenos Aires). When the Apollo XI landed on 20 July 1969 Febbraro saw that for once in life everyone was together, so he sent a thousand letters to one hundred countries which received 700 responses, from the moment he founded the Friend's Day, but this initiative has been severe criticism and counter to be considered totally opposed to the spirit of true friendship.
After the death of Argentine writer and cartoonist Robert Fontanarrosa occurred on July 19, 2007, came a proposal, aired by a chain-mail, change the date. This change would bring the Friends Day in Argentina at the July 19 anniversary of the death of the famous humorist. The case for change contained in the message considers the ground to celebrate the 20 is a "history of others" and to celebrate the 19 would be a tribute to a character who "was happy to spend time, touch, laugh and reflect" many people.
Also in 2007, a proposal led by writer and journalist César Fuentes Rodríguez and disseminated through electronic chain, severely challenged the grounds for the July 20 claiming that the moon landing and other excuses are only one species abstract human harmony is far from the values \u200b\u200bof true friendship between friends, and proposed July 24 as Friendship Day, being the birthday of Alexandre Dumas, the creator of the famous novel of tradition and Internationally Three Musketeers, whose theme is friendship.