The former president questioned the agreement. “Countries are great: they open up to sell us, but not to buy,” he analyzed.
He former president Mujica referred to agreement between Mercosur and the European Union (EU) and admitted: “I am very suspicious that it will come out.” When justifying his position, the referent of the Broad Front (FA) He pointed out that “the more markets we get, the better, but let’s not lose what we have.”
The former president thus referred to the postponed negotiations for a trade agreement with the EU, in the context of a new Mercosur summit in which the President Luis Lacalle Pou returned to issue an individual statement, not agreeing with the position of the other three partners: Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
In dialogue with Underlined, Mujica expressed: “We live in a world in which everyone says that we must open up, but developed countries are awesome; open to sell us but not to buy”. “The more market and more diversified, the better,” he acknowledged, but insisted: “I am very suspicious that it will come out.”
By making an analogy, the former president maintained that “The dilemma we have is that of Tarzan: we are clinging to a liana and we want to grab another, but we can’t get away from this one because we could end up in the air”. “We have to fight to be able to keep both,” she insisted.
And he graphed: “We sell, for example, to Saint Paul, more than any European country. And we sell added value. So the more markets we get, the better, but let’s not lose what we have.”
Mujica, on the water crisis: “We all fell asleep”
When analyzing the water crisis that whips Montevideo and the metropolitan area of Uruguay, Mujica opened up at a press conference and stated: “We should have started earlier.” When deepening this position, he affirmed: “They are going to make me angry, we all fell asleep let’s share the responsibility. It’s my way of thinking”.
In this sense, he indicated the works that were going to be done and the reasons why progress was not made on time. “Because? Oh, the blessed fiscal deficit. The project was soon, the financing was there, but it made the fiscal deficit jump up. We could have made Casupá on time.”
Finally, on how the water emergency will progress, he considered that “it is a difficulty that will have to be faced because the forecasts are not good.” alluding to the lack of rain that will continue to punish the region.
Source: Ambito
