The club of friends of the South American right | Macr …

Seven presidents of South America, including Mauricio Macri, launched yesterday in Santiago de Chile the Forum for the Progress of South America, a body with which they seek to replace Unasur, but with a right, a favorable market aligned on US policies for the region. Venezuela being excluded from the meeting, the Presidents of Bolivia, Uruguay, Guyana and Suriname did not attend the meeting, although they sent representatives. Macri urged his peers "to be realistic and pragmatic in understanding global and regional circumstances without ideological prejudices". The new regional group was criticized by the opposition and groups of Argentine diplomats, who satirized that "the very ideology underlying the call could be called Pronorte. ". Through the intermediary of social networks, Macri then requested the cancellation of the call for the election of parliamentarians of Parlasur this year (see annex).

"Our region has a lot of value and potential," Macri said at the meeting held at the Palacio de la Moneda, during which presidents signed a document called Presidential Statement on Renewal. and strengthening the integration of South America. Leaders want the new body to replace Unasur, formed in 2008, with progressive cachet and opposition to Washington's directives. The Prosur initiative was launched by the presidents of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, and Colombia, Iván Duque, and came to fruition a few days later without much definitions on the content of the project. organization beyond which it will not have a seat, nor any institution, nor ask for fixed expenses.

In addition to Macri, Piñera and Duque, the presidents of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro; from Ecuador, Lenin Moreno; Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez; and from Peru, Martín Vizcarra. At one point, the presence of the self-proclaimed Venezuelan President, Juan Guaidó, was speculated, but was eventually dismissed due to the rejection of this participation by Uruguay and Bolivia. Although Tabaré Vázquez and Evo Morales were not in Chile yesterday, without Guaidó, they at least sent representatives. Even Guyana and Suriname.

"The political changes in the region have precipitated the almost obsessive desires of many of our leaders to please the Big Brother North, creating an organization that is a further step in the unsuccessful attempt to invade Venezuela," he said. a group in a statement. ambbadadors related to Peronism such as Juan Carlos Olima, Federico Mirre, Maxwell Gutierrez Maxwell, Hernan Patino Mayer and Victorio Taccetti. "We deplore the position of our government, which unacceptably rejects our long tradition in this area," Luis María Drago, Hipólito Yrigoyen and Juan Domingo Perón explained, historically, "they concluded.

In addition, the group "Mundo Sur", composed of diplomats, academics and political, social and union leaders, issued a statement in which he emphasized that Prosur "is an improvised proposal, certified by the Chilean president after his visit at the White House and pushed to his order ". The signed statement, among others, Jorge Taiana, Eduardo Valdes, Oscar Laborde, Guillermo Carmona, Robert Baradel, Nicolás Trotta and Ana Jaramillo, considered it "essential" that "all the democratic forces, both at national and regional level, condemn any attempt to External interference and the use of force in any country in the region and reaffirming the sovereign vocation to build our own institutionality ". The national PJ issued a similar critical statement on Thursday.