“We force Argentina to recover, but it is not easy”

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, recalled this Thursday that since 2019, in an interview with the Argentinian press, predicts the exodus of citizens from that country to the South American giant, as is happening now amid the covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis.

“No se necesita tener una bola de cristal para decirlo. Quien hace opciones erróneas va a pagar el precio tarde o temprano”, dijo Bolsonaro in su semanal transmission in vivo through las redes sociales, in alusión a artículos de prensa publicados esta semana on the massive arrival of Argentines in Brazil.

Bolsonaro reported that on Thursday, during a visit to Paraná, a Brazilian state on the border with Paraguay and Argentina, he found a young Argentine immigrant who started to cry when the president questioned him. on the situation in the neighboring country.

“The rivalry between Brazilians and Argentines only in football. We we want prosperous, strong, free and democratic neighbors, but the choice between one candidate and another belongs to the Argentine people… ”, declared the leader of the Brazilian far right and critic of the Argentine government.

“We are forcing Argentina to recover, but it is not easy. It is a sign that this closure of everything (in the midst of a pandemic) has not worked in Argentina, which has one of the highest death rates (from covid) per 100,000 inhabitants, “he said. declared.

The chicana to his Argentinian counterpart has already become a common action for the Brazilian president. In mid-June, during a brief conversation with a group of followers, Bolsonaro regretted that Argentina, Mercosur’s partner with Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, “finds itself in a rather complicated situation” , which he attributed to the “decisive vote of the staff on the spot for those who plunged the country into a hole”.

The Brazilian far-right leader assured that “agribusiness in Argentina no longer compensates” the producer and criticized certain measures adopted in recent weeks by President Fernández, such as the temporary suspension of meat exports or the tax increases that affect various agricultural products.

“It is a very complicated situation”, reiterated the president, who again underlined that “the Argentines are brothers” of Brazil and that he wants “the best” for this country, although he doubts the government of Fernández, progressive in nature.

The same week, in the usual live that the Brazilian Head of State made through his social networks, he again referred to Fernández’s sentence on the origin of Latin American peoples by showing the photo that he ironically posted on Twitter shortly after the Argentine president went viral.

“The first thing I can say is the rivalry is just football. In the absence of football the brothers are my brothers. I want the best for Argentina because at the end of the day when we have prosperous neighbors, that’s a sign it’s good for everyone, “Bolsonaro began to emphasize, with a conciliatory tone and toning down the controversy. However, he echoed the message he had. underlined during a press conference in which he compared Fernández to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

With information from EFE.

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