The director of Tourism of Maldonado Martín Laventure said that the comments of the Association of Argentine Owners in Uruguay (APAU) on alleged mistreatment of Argentines “It has nothing to do with reality.” The secretary of APAU, Alfredo Girelli, had told Coffee and Business that They received comments from compatriots about “unjustified ill-treatment” by some Uruguayans.
“It is a comment that has nothing to do with reality. It strikes me because what tourists in general and Argentines in particular value is the treatment that people from the department have towards them and the very good relationship they have have,” Laventure told The Observer.
In turn, he added: “What they say does not respond to reality and is a lack of respect, fundamentally for the workers and people in the department who do not deserve it.”
APAU had harshly criticized the cost of the contribution in 2021. “This association has very little representation, they made some claims last year and they were not received. The conduct of the taxpayers ruined everything they raised,” said the municipal leader. .
Girelli had said that it is of order not to generalize this situation in all Uruguayans, but “that if I said that they do not happen, I would be lying.” By the way, he told specific cases in this regard, one of them that he himself starred in: “A week ago I was with the car in Maldonado, and a lady on a motorbike passes by who sees my license plate and yells at me, a fucking porteño.“, he recalled.
In this sense, he affirmed that the complaints that reach APAU are more than anything from situations like the ones he experienced, which “simply for having an Argentine patent” they insulted him.
In the interview, Girelli recalled what the Uruguayan humorist, Sebastián Almada, said on the television program Intratables: “Argentines love us Uruguayans very much, they respect us. It is not mutual,” he said. He then added that the Uruguayan does not love the Argentine so much.
