Alberto Fernández said he hoped to improve relations with the United States thanks to Joe Biden and questioned Donald Trump

For the first time, President Alberto Fernández spoke about your expectations for improving the relationship with the United States after Joe Biden’s victory in that country’s election on November 3, when openly criticized Donald Trump’s policy towards Latin America.

The Argentine President claimed that his elected counterpart in the United States. “You have a great opportunity to generate another connection and meet Latin America again” and that your policy in this regard “It’s going to be better than Trump’s.”

He spoke in these terms during a videoconference he had with the leader and former presidential candidate of Chile, Marco Enríquez-Ominami.

Fernández said he “felt” it was “very difficult for a (North) American government could put more risk the link with Latin America “as the outgoing Trump administration.

“I am optimistic that with Biden we can be calmer, confident and maybe we can take it a step further and achieve better results ”, assessed the president.

Among the points that raise expectations vis-à-vis Latin America, Fernández opted to “ban the idea of ​​military intervention in Venezuela”.

In this sense, the Head of State advocated “to help Venezuela find a channel of dialogue so that all Venezuela can come together again and Venezuelans resolve their future by not to invent traveling presidents who go around the world, which happened at the request of the North American government, ”referring to the head of the National Assembly of that country, Juan Guaidó.

<< Beyond the political situation, that in the midst of a pandemic, they subjected a whole people to a blockingIt is really inhuman, ”said the president.

“I’m not very clear on the end of Biden’s foreign policy towards Latin America, but I rule out that it will certainly be better than Trump’s,” Fernández added, defining the incumbent’s management as “very strong intervention” In the region.

“These years that have passed they treated us very badly. The intervention the Trump administration made to the OAS, the way it used the OAS to overturn the election Evo Morales had rightfully won, the way the IDB intervened with a man he trusted, the same man who as director of the IMF has publicly declared that they have decided to lend Argentina more than 50 billion dollars so that it does not lose the election, he said.

“We will have a better connection with the United States, mainly because it’s hard to have a worse bond“Fernández postulated and insisted that Biden” has a great opportunity to create another link with Latin America “.

In addition, the Argentine President gave his opinion on the recent political and economic crises in Bolivia, Peru and Chile and on the similarities between them.

“There was a process where the continent has been “ preserved ”, if I can use the term, but when people got a chance to speak it changed dramatically. When in Argentina there was an option to vote, people gave up conservatism. In Bolivia, when people were able to vote, they chose Evo, and they chose him so much that they had to carry out a military coup hailed by the OAS and put a number like Áñez ”, analyzed Fernández. .

“In Chile, the result of the constitutional consultation gives a clear guideline for a country which wants to depart from the logic inherited from a Constitution left by Pinochet. In Peru, there has been a party crisis for many years, all the last presidents are prosecuted or in prison, and the only one who did not commit suicide ”, continued the president, who also noted that he is possible that in Ecuador the party of Rafael Correa return to power.

“I would say that there is a different outlook on the continent after the conservative experience, which had a large protective umbrella who was Trump’s America. It started to decline before the result of the US election and to decline because of the experience of each of us. All this logic has entered a crisis, ”replied Fernández.

Regarding the debts that Latin American countries like Argentina and Ecuador owe to the IMF, the President described them as “a very serious problem” for the future.

“Debt represents us a cost for our development. In the midst of the pandemic, we reached an agreement with private creditors and we are now seeking to organize ourselves with the Fund. It’s decisive to see how we face the country we want to move forward, ”he said.

“Latin America suffers a lot because it is the continent more unequal than the world. We are very easily damaged by the economy and by a virus, ”he added.

Speaking about the common problems facing the countries of the region, Alberto Fernández appreciated the work done at Unasur.

“I have the impression that Unasur worked. It was a place where countries with different ideologies converged to try to find common solutions in a world that increasingly demands regionalization. We lived with Piñera and Uribe and there was no problem. But it happened. the Trump administration and Unasur became the Lima Group, which was mainly used to crash into Venezuela, ”he said.

Finally, the president, nearly a year after his appointment, said he “never imagined” the problems he faced as a result of the coronavirus outbreak during the first months of his administration .

“I didn’t expect to have to deal with a pandemic. And I think in the story we will be remembered as the government of the pandemic, because during this time we had to improvise countless things to bring solutions to people. From the IFE, with which we are trying to reach 9 million Argentines, to the increase in the Alimentar card or the Universal Child Benefit. All the well-being was so great that it ended totally distorting the macroeconomic plan that we had thought about tax matters, ”he revealed.