Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero described Mauricio Macri as “inoperative” this Sunday, to the replicate an open letter from the former president, who said that “most of us Argentines feel ashamed” for the invitation to the presidents of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, to the Celac summit.
“Shame is having condemned the country to return to the IMF after receiving it out of debt. Argentina pays for your ineffectiveness,” Cafiero replied through his Twitter account.
It is shameful to have condemned the country to return to the IMF after receiving it out of debt. Argentina pays for your ineffectiveness.
CELAC is a sovereign and broad forum. Multilateralism implies debating without exclusions and without denying differences in order to improve ties between peoples. https://t.co/GdC8Tjsip7
– Santiago Cafiero (@SantiagoCafiero) January 22, 2023
And the foreign minister asserted that CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) “is a sovereign and broad forum.”
“Multilateralism implies debating without exclusions and without denying differences to improve ties between peoples”, Cafiero maintained.
Macri said on his Facebook account that “Argentina will receive the dictators Nicolás Maduro, from Venezuela, and Miguel Díaz-Canel, from Cuba. The vast majority of Argentines feel ashamed that our country associates with others where there is persecution, torture, narco-terrorism, political prisoners and fraudulent elections that make a mockery of democracy”.
He also said that “we have an Executive Branch that abused its power during the 2020 and 2021 quarantines and is now trying to alter the functioning of the Republic by attacking the Supreme Court, while shamelessly defending authoritarian governments in international forums.”
“But there is good news. Before the end of the year this government will end. The polls will decide to have a government that will respect the law and the institutions of democracy, that will protect freedoms, that will banish mafia aggression as a methodology, that will not put pressure on the opposition, the press or the judges. We will never welcome dictators again.”
At the top of the Celac Presidents and government representatives of various ideological trends will participate, from the left to the center-right.
For example, in addition to Lula, the Chilean Gabriel Boric and the Cuban Díaz-Canel, the Uruguayan Luis Lacalle Pou, the special adviser to the president of the United States, Joe Biden, Christopher Dodd, and the president of the Council of the European Union, Charles Michel.
