“If you are going to hijack a plane you have to be willing to kill at least one hostage” says an unspeakable presidential candidate in Uruguay…Shame and Horror: pic.twitter.com/G3zLRIdJmx
— PEPE (@BatlleOrdonez00) October 10, 2024
In the last few hours, a clipping of a video taken from a dissertation by Andrés Ojeda, presidential candidate for the Colorado Party, went viral.
The lawyer and politician made a controversial allegory that has caused a wave of criticism on social networks. Speaking about Mercosur, and the secessionist positions of Luis Lacalle Pou, Ojeda expressed: “I always say something, and I say it to clients, the profession has helped me a lot for this: If you’re going to take the plane, and you’re going to hijack the plane, you have to at least be willing to kill a hostage.. If not, don’t hijack the plane, because the next time you hijack the plane, no one will believe you.”
And he continued: “So, Uruguay cannot make 50 attempts to leave a Mercosur from which it will never leave. That’s the reality. Why won’t you leave? Because of the 1,400 exporting companies in Uruguay, 400 have their work basically based entirely on Mercosur. “Today we are shooting ourselves in the foot by leaving Mercosur.”
The short video made viral by journalist Leo Sarro ends with the Colorado candidate saying: “Obviously it turns me on like everyone else that they ignore us, that they don’t give us shitwhich makes you want to kick. But, deep down, the reasonable, pertinent decision has to be pragmatic. “I’m not going to leave a place where it’s useful for me to be, even if I get upset about how they treat me.”
Criticism on social networks of Ojeda’s metaphor about terrorism and Mercosur
After the video went viral, many people came out to criticize it, with quite questioning comments due to the “misplaced” nature of the comment, as several Internet users described it.
On the social network “It’s a shame, but not only because of the analogy, as bombastic as it is unfortunate. The entire candidate is what we Uruguayans reject. “PB is going to eat it with bread,” said another user on the same network.
“Horror! Folly! Oxymoron! Compare a market association of countries with the crime of hijacking an airplane! and kill hostages!” said @AlbericoBarrios.
“He is skillful, but he lacked mischief in the choice of metaphor. I would have chosen ‘Peter and the Wolf’. He wouldn’t have been exposed to an idiot like Sarro taking him out of context. People read headlines and don’t watch the full video. It is the ‘trap’ to attract attention,” commented José Bernardo Zlotniski Ardaya, also on X.com.
