Santiago Peña valued the president’s thoughts and said that together with Javier Milei they can wage “a cultural battle.”
The president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, highlighted Luis Lacalle Pou as “a great ally against populism” and ventured that together with the Argentine Javier Milei They have “a common vision” that could form a regional alliance.
“We have in Uruguay A great ally, Luis Lacalle Pou has this same thought. And we have to add up,” said the Paraguayan president about the possibility of advancing a joint agenda, both economically and culturally.
Peña expressed this when participating in an event in his country for the launch of the book by Argentine journalist Eduardo Feinmann, titled “10 lessons to get out of the populist trap”, where Milei, the former president of Spain, also participated virtually. Mariano Rajoy; and the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó.
The head of state spoke of “fighting cultural battle against that very harmful populism, which sounds very attractive but in the end it has been shown that it has failed” and he imagined a trident made up of him, Milei and Lacalle Pou to advance with that idea “outside the doors.”
The common points of Peña and Lacalle Pou
It is not the first wink between Peña and Lacalle Pou, within the framework of a relationship that began almost a year ago, after the Paraguayan leader was elected, with whom the Uruguayan president spoke of “continuing working to complement our economies”, with a look in common with “open ourselves to the world.”
In fact, the president of the neighboring country is one of the defenders of the flexibility of the Mercosur. a strategy that Lacalle Pou repeatedly promotes. Peña even went so far as to fight for a “more open” bloc, recalling that “Paraguay “It is in the middle of two very large economies,” referring to Brazil and Argentina.”
“When Lacalle Pou says that they could negotiate separately with Chinawhat he does is raise his voice and tell them ‘gentlemen, or we make the Mercosur for us or we have to go out and look for other markets,'” said the Paraguayan, in line with the Uruguayan position.
Source: Ambito
