The former president assured that “it was not going well and nothing good will come of it,” when speaking during an event of Lula’s PT in Brazil.
The ex-president Jose Mujica once again questioned the failure of the negotiations in the Mercosur-EU agreement and did not hesitate to point out that “we lost 22 years”, after echoing the freeze announced since Europe, delaying the signing until at least September.
“It wasn’t going well and it won’t turn out well,” he said. Mujica regarding the possible agreement between blocks, to which France has been blocking to echo the protests of local farmers. Even the chancellor of Paraguay, Rubén Ramírez, admitted that negotiations will be suspended until the European parliamentary elections on June 9 are concluded. Even, as confirmed Ambit in Argentina, The deadline will be extended until September.
The former Uruguayan president expressed himself this way when he was invited by the Workers Party (PT) of the president of Brazil, Lula Da Silva, to the Integration Day of Latin American and Caribbean Peoples that took place in Foz de Iguazú. In this framework, he called for carrying out “a set of things that we call ‘first generation changes’”.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, together with the president of the PT, Gleisi Hoffmann, and the vice president of Colombia, Francia Márquez, Mujica called for strengthening trade between Latin American countries: “If we do not have a people, we will not achieve integration. Governments will change, but the people will press. History is not made by great leaders, it is made by the masses.”
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Mujica called for progress, but questioned the common currency
Regarding the proposals, the former head of state urged “strengthening trade” and spoke of the creation of a common document to travel between countries, as well as a common organ bank for transplants, solidarity brigades to combat catastrophes and the possibility of a energy cooperation regional.
However, he questioned the idea of a common currency for the block. “We always think about the end, the most difficult thing,” he noted and questioned: “We need to learn to negotiate with our currencies and not depend on the dollar. History shows that first came trade and then currency.”
Anyway, Mujica He noted that any initiative “does not eliminate politics within societies and cannot replace issues of power within countries.” In this regard, he summarized: “This is a set of measures to strengthen our America, in a world that is globalizing and that cannot solve class problems.”
Source: Ambito
