The Foreign Ministry of Chile said it was “surprised” by the statements made by Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, who recently met with leaders of the Chilean opposition, criticizing him for “interfering in Chile’s internal affairs.”
The center-left Fernandez met via video with members of the Popela Progressive Group, which among others, the leftist Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa and Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, which he also found.
According to news reports, published on the website of the Bubella Group, that during the meeting, Fernandez encouraged left-wing parties in Chile to “overcome their differences and return to power in the name of the Chileans.”
The reports said that Fernandez told the group, which included leaders of socialist, communist and Christian Democratic parties with influence, he was “happy with what he saw in Chile.”
In Chile, the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized Fernandez’s statements in a statement, saying that it “does not contribute to the promotion of a bilateral agenda that was fruitful and set by different governments in both countries.”
Right-wing Chilean President Sebastian Bannera has faced months of violent protests over inequality in late 2019.
These protests resulted from an increase in the price of metro tickets and saw the army take to the streets for the first time since Augusto Pinochet’s rule, and these protests caused damage to billions of dollars in infrastructure.
And the business sector.
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