For Mujica, "it's an honor" that Fernández be president – News

Elected president, Alberto Fernández, and former president of Uruguay, José "Pepe" Mujica, discussed Friday at noon a conference on "Culture, Politics and Late Capitalism" at the University of Buenos Aires City.

They exchanged praise and agreed on the need to "get out of individualism".

"It's an honor to have a friend who has a changuita as president," said Mujica about Fernandez. The joke sparked public laughter at the beginning of his speech.

The former Uruguayan president stressed that the elected president is a "necessary and essential friend in this battle to become an America that is our nation".

In his thesis, Fernández pointed out that "Pepe" Mujica "is a lighthouse, the last of the hippies, someone who fought in his youth, survived, had only one behavior and that only one logic "in his life and, therefore, is" socially respected ".

Perón, Bob Dylan and the Beatles

The president-elect talked about capitalism and consumerism, mentioned Raúl Alfonsín as the architect of "the ethic of solidarity" and said that his person is not "the result of what Juan Domingo Perón left, but also Bob Dylan Beatles ", among others.

"Who can live in peace knowing that the neighbor is suffering?", He asked.

The hungry are not a statistic. How can we be at peace with our conscience knowing that there is someone in this situation next to or opposite?

About chile

Mujica mentioned the situation in the neighboring country: "The companies are measured in macro figures, but no one asks people if they are happy, as in Chile, where the figures are barbaric, but people are the matter is more complicated, "he said.

In another sentence, true to his style, he said: "They have made me look like a poor president, poor is the one who needs a lot, the one who is a slave and he never gets what he wants. he has, because he has the ambition of iron and a new home. "

The discussion took place in front of a crowded auditorium and was organized by the Chairs of Contemporary Culture, Introduction to the problem of the contemporary world, Questions of sociology, economics and politics; and problems of the history of the 20th century.

They were accompanied by the Vice Chancellor of the University, Martín Kaufmann, and Enrique Valiente, coordinator of the Bachelor of Arts and Culture Management.