The former president responded to the statements of the Argentine presidential candidate and analyzed the current political situation in the neighboring country.
The ex-president Jose Mujica responded to the Argentine presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich after she compared herself to him in the presidential debate that took place last Sunday in the neighboring country, and said that “it is putting vinegar with oil.” The leader of Uruguay He also referred to the current political situation of Argentina.
The participation of Bullrich, candidate for space Together for Change —from the former Argentine president Mauricio Macri—, During the debate he had interventions that resonated strongly due to the inaccuracy or unprecedented nature of his statements. One of them was the comparison he made during the Human rights and democratic coexistence between its own history—aligned with the organization Montoneros in the 1970s, during the last civic-military dictatorship of that country—, Mujica and Nelson Mandela —Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against apartheid in South Africa.
“The only way to do politics seriously is in peace and coexistence. Everything that happened was a tragedy that can never happen again in Argentina. I choose the Rule of law. I did not use violence, I participated in a youth organization. I always said it,” said the former Security Minister during the Macri administration, questioned about her past. And she added: “The same thing happened to great leaders of humanity like Mandela and Mujica, who were presidents of their countries,” recalling the story of the former Uruguayan president as a member of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros.
Mujica, for his part, maintained that the comparison made by the presidential candidate It has “nothing to do with it, it’s putting vinegar and oil”. “We were not a guerrilla, we were a political movement with weapons. And we had a stage of militaristic training, we ran out of strategy and we had unleashed a mass movement. Success killed us. We should have turned in history,” he said, in dialogue with radio Splendid.
And he added: “History is not fixed only by irons. And it is better not to talk about Mandela, because it is too big for us.”
Mujica’s current political commentary
In addition to referring to Bullrich’s statements, the former president mentioned the political scene current situation that Argentina is going through, based on what he observed during the presidential debate in that country. “I was worried,” said Mujica, adding that “the hyperinflation It is a drama of societies” and that “there are people who make mistakes when they are desperate.”
In that sense, the leader of the Wide Front He maintained that he hopes that “the Argentine people can move forward with their contradictions.”
“They lead people to simplistic decisions, but there is a little bit of hope because this has already happened and they have managed to overcome it. She was remembering the speech of Balbin when he died Peron, “You have to learn to shake hands, you don’t have to grow old to have that philosophy,” he expressed, also giving an account of the Uruguayan position regarding institutional and democratic continuity.
Mujica also raised his forecast for the Argentine economy in the coming months. “It is inevitable that Argentina is going to enter into an adjustment, unfortunately it is already there, but who pays the greater cost? The one who suffers is the people who are trying to make ends meet, you don’t have to be an economist not to realize that,” she said, and clarified that, in any case, “there are no magic solutionsin that complexity ‘simplification’ appears with fatal solutions.”
Source: Ambito
