2023-07-18 05:55:00
The Minister of Industry and Commerce of Paraguay, Luis Castiglioni, proposed building a wall on the border with Argentina to combat smuggling between both countries.
“I always say this: the truth is that I would like build a great wall around the Argentine border, because it is really very difficult to fight against a scourge when the incentives are so great from an economic point of view, but we must continue doing so,” said the Paraguayan official.
Luis Castiglioni: “I would like to build a wall on the border with Argentina”
“I would like to build a wall on the border with Argentina, like Mr. (Donald) Trump He had proposed on the occasion of his presidency, to build one at the border crossing with Mexico, given the impotence he had from the passage of illegal migrants,” he added during Expo 2023, in the city of Mariano Roque Alonso.
The Minister of Industry and Trade of Paraguay, Luis Castiglioni.
Castiglioni pointed out that Paraguay is experiencing an increase in smuggling due to “the unfortunate situation of our brother country“, while attributing this situation to “its totally differentiated and uncoordinated macroeconomic policies”.
In addition, he remarked that this makes “all neighboring countries suffer.”
What did the Argentine ambassador in Paraguay say about the proposal to “build a wall on the border with Argentina”
Given the proposal, the Argentine ambassador in Paraguay, Domingo Peppo, criticized the initiative of the Guarani officialsince he believes that both nations should be close and it is time to “build more bridges“.
“The expressions of Minister Luis Castiglioni of the Paraguayan Ministry of Commerce about building a wall between Argentina and Paraguay are striking and I regret. Quite the contrary, our peoples are brothers and seek to be increasingly closer and connected, we must build more bridges not walls“, he pointed.
The smuggling of soybeans to Bolivia and Paraguay generates losses of up to US$ 400 million
And he continued: “Let’s not forget the experience of the pandemic in which for a period of time we closed ourselves and the request for the opening of borders was made a plea, due to the economic damage that it generated to the border towns of Paraguay.”
“Yo I hope this is not the thinking of the Paraguayan government. Because it would interfere with the good relations between the two governments,” he concluded.
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