Political and social leaders highlighted the speech delivered by President Alberto Fernández at the Summit of the Americas and agreed to highlight the “concrete differences” with the axes of Mauricio Macri’s management on the relationship of the United States with Latin America, the Malvinas cause and the role of the Organization of American States (OAS).
This Thursday, while delivering his speech to the leaders of the summit taking place in Los Angeles, the Argentine president called for the resignation of the OAS Secretary General, the Uruguayan Luis Almagro, he asked his North American counterpart Joe Biden for a reformulation of the his country’s policy towards Latin America and questioned the support of his predecessor Donald Trump for the management of Mauricio Macri.
“The words of President Alberto Fernández represent a turning of the page in relation to the submissive and obedient attitude of Mauricio Macri and the opposition of Together for Change (JxC) who religiously practice the dogma of the backyard,” said the secretary general of the CTA and deputy of the Front of All, Hugo Yaskyin statements to Télam.
Hugo Yaski (@HugoYasky): “The words of Alberto Fernández (@alferdez) are the antithesis of the years of macrismo”https://t.co/rBfbj3h2sT
—Telam Agency (@TelamAgency) June 10, 2022
For Daniel Menendezofficial of the Ministry of Social Development and leader of the Movimiento Somos Barrios de Pie, the Argentine president’s speech “truly represents the commitment we have with the most neglected of the continent” and added: “His proposals about the urgent and necessary restructuring that The OAS and the IDB, in addition to the idea of organizing food production in the region, are undoubtedly the step we must take to end the inequalities suffered by our region”.
The peoples of Our America have to build a single pole of geopolitical power and not be North American backyard or bishops of the interests and double standards of any power. Very good intervention @alferdez at the Summit. pic.twitter.com/6AUrx8xnBf
– Juan Grabois (@JuanGrabois) June 10, 2022
Through his Twitter account, Juan Grabois, head of the Movement of Excluded Workers and member of the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (Utep), maintained: “The peoples of our America have to build a single pole of geopolitical power and not be an American backyard or bishops of the interests and double standards of any power” and highlighted yesterday’s intervention by Alberto Fernández as “very good”.
“In the America we live in, exclusions to well-being, sustainable financing, productive diversification, technology and gender equity are not admissible”
?️ @alferdez on the @SummitAmericas #AmericaIsWithAll pic.twitter.com/doi8xhbITH
– Daniel Menendez (@danimenendezok) June 10, 2022
Meanwhile, for the leader of the Evita Movement, Gildo OnoratoFernández’s words “expressed in the best way the popular traditions of Latin America, echoing in the present, repudiating the OAS for its role in the coup against Bolivia” and added: “It has been a great participation, because many times we we lock ourselves in internal problems and we don’t see the historical dimension of the problems that exist in the world”.
“Clearly Alberto’s speech marks a course for the CELAC countries and his speech is illuminating a resurgence of the peoples in our region, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina have to be the backbone of the 21st century to build societies less unequal,” Onorato told Télam.
For his part, the general secretary of the Federation of Land and Housing (FTV) and president of the Miles Party, Luis D’Eliaconsidered: “Without fanfare, without histrionics, Alberto delivered the most formidable speech delivered by any Argentine President, in the very face of the Empire and the President of the United States.”
No fanfare No histrionics @alferdez He has just delivered the most formidable speech ever delivered by the Argentine President in the very face of the Empire #ExcellentAlberto
– Luis D’Elia (@Luis_Delia) June 9, 2022
Angel ‘Lito’ Borellohead of the social and political organization Los Pibes and secretary of Human Rights of UTEP, added: “It is to be celebrated in the President’s speech the inspiration of Pope Francis, that we share many popular movements towards the construction of another possible world.”
“Having questioned, as president of CELAC and of a strategic country like ours, the powers that hold political, economic and military power, responsible for the aggression against the Common House, in a world at war where selfishness and political of discarding impose hunger, exclusion and death on us; I rescue it as a brave and timely speech”, Borello told Télam.
Finally, the Parlasur deputy and head of the Octobers Movement, Gaston Harispedescribed the speech as “”brilliant” since it “summarized the expectations from the towns of the Rio Bravo in Mexico to Tierra del Fuego” and considered that it raised “the essential issues for regional integration and an America in peace, with growth and justice Social”.
impressive speech by @alferdez at the Summit of the Americas. what resignation @Almagro_OEA2015 , that the blockades against Cuba and Venezuela cease, that we have strategies in the fight against hunger, I criticize the debt and the spill theory. Peronist speech in the face of the empire
— Gaston Harispe (@gastonharispe) June 9, 2022
