A few months after he steps aside from the Municipality of Canelones, and being the opposition candidate currently best positioned in the internal race of the Frente Amplio, Orsi was invited to Washington to participate in a closed meeting in the Inter-American Dialogue, two weeks before the president Luis Lacalle Pou travel to USA to meet with the local president, Joe Biden.
In the American capital, Orsi presented his vision on the situation of Uruguay, as well as the prospects for the future government and what foreign relations its eventual management would have. According to him he told the media Infobae, the majority message is that Uruguay want to have more investments of the North American country.
Orsi’s plan includes the United States
There is still just over a year left until Uruguay elect a new president; And prior to this, Orsi must first win the internal Broad Front to be the representative of the left coalition in the general elections in October. However, the candidate who emerged from Popular Participation Movement (MPP) who is seen as the successor of José “Pepe” Mujica He is already making movements thinking about the next campaign.
Along these lines, he took advantage of the trip to USA to advance what the relationship with the country would be like in a possible government that has him at the head, with the idea of moving forward on an agreement free trade as one of the priorities.
For Orsi, although Uruguay and USA They have historically had good relations, “not many things have happened in terms of investments.” “A country like USA, with many resources, is looking to other parts of the world and even when it looks to Latin America, look for him Caribbean. The first thing we propose is the need to clarify what the opportunities are from the economic and investment point of view of an economy like the North American one that has closed in a world of much competitiveness”, Orsi told Infobae.
The mayor of Canelones understands that the world has “entered a kind of commercial cold war between two powers” and that Uruguay, Due to the “particularity of having two giants as neighbors” it has to look for alternatives to grow. In this scenario, and with the negotiations with Europe locked—within the framework of Mercosur-European Union agreement—, North American power continues to be a great opportunity for international trade, but also for local development.
“Uruguay intends, I proposed to them, a growth above 3% of GDP to be able to truly enter a phase of development of prosperity and for that we need not only to sell our products, but also investments”, pointed out the Frente Amplista candidate.
However, he clarified that China would still be a important economic ally from the country: “Uruguay He doesn’t have much chance other than to continue selling his raw material, remain strongly linked to Brazil and to China. The possibility that USA look a little more towards him Silver river For us it can be another way because in a world like today’s if you lock yourself into one or two options you can get trapped,” he explained in this regard.
“We want to have businesses and promote investments, as Pepe says, with everyone who is careless. We don’t want to put our eggs in one basket.. No no. It is worth nothing to have a single direction or to have just a couple of opportunities,” Orsi added.
Source: Ambito
