“It is the third time that it happens to us that they want to hit the market”, President Alberto Fernández said in an interview on channel C5N, after his trip to Jujuy to visit Milagro Sala and demand her release.
Regarding the rise of the dollar in recent weeks, he said: “How do you think we stopped the third bullfight that they wanted to do to us if not harshly? To be tough, you don’t have to go around punching or shouting, but rather act with sense and rationality.”
He then added: “We have to understand the unique moment that the world is going through, which is in an enormously critical situation; you have to listen to other world leaders to see what is happening to them in terms of energy, food”.
“There is a sector of Argentine politics that has left us with the worst economic scenario we can have. What the macrismo did is immeasurable damage. I’m not asking you to help me, I’m asking you to shut up because they confuse and generate adverse expectations,” Fernández asked and assured that leaders “from all over the world” talk about what the previous administration did.
Fernández assured: “I ask you to simply reflect and that the best way to help is not giving your opinion. If you want to help the opposition, do not give an opinion. To be tough you don’t have to shout, to be tough you have to act with sense, with rationality. Do not ask me for gestures of conviction because I am very convinced of what needs to be done. I went to the Summit of the Americas, many told me that if I went I was legitimizing it. I went and said what I had to say defending Latin America”.
Then he again differentiated himself from Cristina Kirchner and assured: “We cannot live forever with a deficit, we have to gradually reduce it. That is why I always said that the agreement with the Fund was not an adjustment. Today the INDEC reported that income distribution improved. That shows that there is no adjustment. The second thing we have to do is accumulate reserves. There is no adjustment in Argentina”.
Regarding the call of the Liaison Table for a strike of marketing on July 13, replied: “The highest cost of imports is energy in diesel, Now what they have to understand is that there is a lack of diesel throughout the world. Argentina also lacks more for two reasons: the first is that the increase in production in the country means that more energy is consumed. We spend in the summer the greatest demand for electricity in Argentina. But the problem is not solved with a strike.
He then referred to the bilateral meeting with Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister. “The meeting was requested by him. I told him: All your ideas are great, but before talking about anything we have to talk about the Malvinas”he affirmed.
“The meeting was requested by Boris and I felt that it was the great opportunity I had to tell the United Kingdom what I believe. You have to sit at a table to discuss the Malvinashe told me that this was a resolved issue, but it is not resolved, because sovereignty is Argentina, “said Fernández, who replied and added:” I told him delighted that we deal with all that, but before we comply with what was ordered by the Nations United and we start discussing sovereignty”.
Regarding his meeting with the president of the United States during the Summit, he said that Joe Biden recognized that the Donald Trump administration helped Argentina’s economic situation to be the current one, but that it was not his responsibility. “I think that with the United States you have to have a good relationship, a dignified relationship, not one of submission,” he added.
“In December 2016 I asked Milagro Sala to see her. They gave me permission for December 31 at 4:00 p.m. and when I left I raised my concern about the way I was detained, about the nature of the processes. Evidently, it seemed to be a persecutory maneuver. I didn’t say it today, I said it back then. In a rule of law that is not possible. Miracle Sala does not have a final sentence”, assured the President.
Regarding his visit to Jujuy today, he explained: “What I wanted with this was to expose. When I went to see Lula when he was in prison, what was the point of that trip to alert the world that a candidate The president in Argentina was saying that Lula was badly detained and that this was repugnant to the democratic system of Latin America”.
Later he responded to those who ask him to pardon the leader Tupac Amaru and remarked: “I cannot pardon Milagro Sala and do not ask her to make a political gesture that is against the Constitution”.
When asked about how the Frente de Todos is doing, he defined: “It’s fine. Alright. It’s okay. The situation within the Frente de Todos, a lot is written about it. We all know that with Cristina there are points that we do not have the same lookbut I am sure that she is not my enemy. My enemies are those who want to generate chaos in Argentinathose who sow sadness and despair every day in Argentina”.