Before traveling to the United States Kicillof defended "popular governments" in Mexico

WASHINGTON.-

Axel Kicillof

has become today the first Kirchner figure to show up in Washington in the antechamber of the presidential campaign, a day before

Cristina Kirchner

presents his book "Sincerely" at the Buenos Aires Book Fair. Before going to the United States, Kicillof crossed Mexico, where he defended the "popular governments" that "are born from the ashes left by neoliberalism".

The pbadage of Kicillof through Mexico before flying to the United States was marked by a busy and juicy, high profile agenda. Kicillof met with senior officials and advisers from

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

and with the Senate Speaker; He gave an interview to Carmen Aristegui for CNN in Español and participated in a lecture at UNAM, the UBA of Mexico, with a title corresponding to his vision: "How to face neoliberalism: l & # 39; Argentina, Mexico and the new conservative wave in Latin America "

Kicillof sought to root the idea of ​​a common front of left-wing governments before a fight that spread across the continent.

"We must give meaning to the conflict at the continental level, the popular governments have in common to rise from the ashes left by neoliberalism, but each has its own footprint," Kicillof said at the conference of the National Autonomous University from Mexico. , according to his spokesman.

The invitation to this conference was launched by John M. Ackerman, one of the intellectuals who actively supported AMLO and the rise of his party, the National Movement for Regeneration (Morena), to Mexico's highest power, a turning point historical. who put for the first time left in front of the country.

"We do not have a prefabricated and generic political package to apply in any country and, under any circumstances, we are guided by our priorities, we act in accordance with the needs of Argentina, neoliberalism has a anachronistic and outdated package of measures that inevitably leads to failure, "he said.

Kicillof met with the Minister of Economy, Graciela Marquez Colin; with the Minister of Labor, Luisa Alcalde, and with the coordinator of the presidential advisers, Lázaro Cárdenas. In addition, he was received by the President of the Senate, Martí Batres, and by the chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Héctor Vasconcelos. He was accompanied at all times by the former ambbadador of Argentina to the United States during Cristina Kirchner's presidency, Cecilia Nahón, who still lives in Washington.

The pbadage of Kicillof through Mexico did not go unnoticed in the Mexican press, which devoted scathing caricatures to him. The Reforma newspaper, critic of the AMLO government, described it as a scorpion that seeks to get under the shirt collar of Mexico's finance minister, Carlos Urzúa. And the newspaper El Economista has published a caricature where he appears with one foot instead of his head.

"The new conservative wave aims to erase all the distinctive features of popular governments: politics, economy, culture, to the point of messing up and persecuting their referents, as is the case of Lula in Brazil," criticized the 39, former minister. from the economy of Cristina.

"The people's governments in Brazil, Ecuador and Argentina have seen vigorous growth and strong expansion of their economy, and another common point is the sharp decline in public debt," he added. "Why do the economies of the people's governments succeed in improving the productive and social conditions, because they result from a battery of public policies with a current state, which is the main difference", he declared.

Kicillof will meet with leaders of human rights organizations in Washington, the US Chamber of Commerce, and speak with members of the "Progressive Caucus" of the US House of Representatives. United, Pramila Jayapal and Ro Khanna. In addition, it provides for a meeting with union leaders. Kicillof will be the keynote speaker at Woodrow Wilson Center on Friday about the present and the future of Argentina.