Bolsonaro on Kirchnerism: "You can go back and that worries us because we do not want another Venezuela"

The possible return of Cristina Kirchner Argentina's president worries the markets and generates political resentment both inside and outside his country. From Brasilia, the president Jair Bolsonaro, that in June, he visits his Mercosur partner, expressed his fear that Argentina will become an "other Venezuela" in case the Kirchnerism returns to power in the elections of next October .

The President attributed Argentina's economic difficulties to the fact that the President Mauricio Macri just do ithalf"liberal reforms with which he proposed to save the economy."Argentina has made the reforms in two and Macri is in trouble now. And the problems accumulate. The opposition may come back. And that worries us because we do not want another Venezuela here in South America."said Bolsonaro.

The same day, Bolsonaro urged legislators in his country to approve the pension reform that drives his government because in the case of not doing it "we are going to end up like Argentina". "The ship is about to be reformed.If it is not true, chaos will be installed because no one else will trust Brazil," he said. added. "An economy less than one trillion reais, we will end up as Argentina," said the president, citing savings for the government that, according to the promise of the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, will involve a decade of reforms.

Kirchner, center-left peronist, appears in polls as the best opponent to face Macri. The latter announced that he would run again in the October 27 elections in a country whose economy is not stabilizing, in recession and very high inflation.

Venezuela is going through a serious economic, political and social crisis under the presidency of Nicolás Maduro, successor of the late Hugo Chávez. Chavez and Kirchner were two of the leading leaders of the left-wing wave that ruled many South American countries over the past decade, alongside the Brazilian. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), currently imprisoned for corruption.