Alberto Fernández suggests to López Obrador to build an axis with Brazil

Roberto Garduno

Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, March 14, 2022, p. 13

Alberto Fernández, president of Argentina, sent a letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in which he suggests strengthening the Mexico-Brazil-Argentina (MBA) axis for democracy and better income distribution. Last night, López Obrador published Fernández’s letter on his social networks, which he received through his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller.

The South American president thus responded to the letter that the Tabascan sent him a week ago, which, he said, was a balm for the dark times he has had to face due to pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the enormous burden of loans assumed by the government of Mauricio Macri.

We still have to close a plan of extended facilities with the IMF. That is the most painful task. There is nothing worse than confronting positions with the followers of the worst financial capitalism. Even so, we have obtained a beneficial agreement for the country, since we avoid the typical adjustment plans with which the neoliberals intend to resolve economic imbalances. For them, the excesses caused by the powerful must be resolved at the cost of the sacrifice of the most vulnerable. That logic never leads to fair solutions and that irritates any good man.

In his letter, President Fernández also refers: “I have seen that you have been with my dear friend Lula. He is a great person and the greatest leader that South America has had and has. We should accompany him in everything that is within our reach.

“If that were to happen, it would do the long-suffering Brazilian people a great deal of good. But, in addition, I imagine that it would allow us to strengthen the MBA (Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina), an axis around which the politics of the region could be directed towards a better democratic quality and fundamentally in a fairer distribution of income. We must never forget that we live in the most unequal continent in the world.

“I naively believed that the pain caused by the pandemic, with so much illness and so much death, would make us review the global injustice in which we live. I thought with hope that capitalism would review itself and be encouraged to recover the social ethics that it sullied by the greed of the powerful. I was wrong. After the pandemic we failed to improve ourselves as humanity. I only verified that the ones that were good, after the pandemic turned out to be very good. But the ones that were bad ended up being worse.

Alberto Fernández invited López Obrador to join forces to change the indigent reality. I also believe that those of us who firmly believe that the only ones to whom we owe loyalty are those who have been trapped in marginalization and poverty must come forward. If capitalism continues to limit the number of consumers impoverishing societies, one day we will witness its own suicide undaunted. So much immorality cannot go unpunished.

The Argentine president added: “If this difficult time has left me with something good, it was having met you. Angela Merkel once asked me what my opinion of you was. ‘It is the first time in many decades that Mexico has a decent man as president, and that in Mexico is a revolution,’ I told him accurately”.