‘We left out millions of Argentines’

President Alberto Fernandez He maintained this Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic “made very clear” the “inequality and social injustice in the world” and affirmed that “it was demonstrated that the financial capitalism that was imposed in the last decades in the world only made millionaires to a very few, but it made millions suffer from poverty”, while denouncing “the unequal distribution of vaccines” in the world

“I say, I am one of the countries that could access vaccines more quickly and easily, but I see what is happening today in Africa and that accounts for the injustice that the world lives“, the President remarked when giving an interview in the framework of the annual event Gzero Summit Latin America 2021, a meeting in which political and business leaders debate challenges and opportunities in the pandemic.

Fernández said he was “convinced” that “the only way to pay (the debt with the International Monetary Fund) and to be able to grow it is through a harmonious development with industry that increases its productionThat this production is exported and generates dollars to pay the debt. “

The Head of State said that the Argentina does not want to “leave the world or breach” obligations.

“The logic of those who think that first to pay you have to adjust the economy so that the economy works is discard capitalism. Adjusting we left out millions of Argentines and the numbers close, but what does not close is the lives of Argentines, who continue to suffer, “he said.

President Alberto also said that he was “very sure” regarding the direction that the talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and claimed to be certain that It is “the same one that Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wants.”

Fernández said that in the Frente de Todos (FdT) “there is no homogeneous view of reality” and that he and Cristina do not think “the same” about “many things.”

“It is clear that Cristina and I do not think the same in many things, the one who finally decides is me. (…) She expresses herself as she always expressed herself and acts as she always acted, what happens is that Now, since she is not the President, when she speaks, she reads differently. I read it with the same naturalness that I always read it. Cristina spoke, “he said.

The meeting, in which specialists and political and business leaders, including Juan Sebastián González, special assistant to the president of the United States, Joe Biden, discuss in order to explore the geopolitical challenges and opportunities of the region in the context of the pandemic of Covid-19, reported official sources.

The meeting, which began yesterday and will end today, is held virtually and has the participation of the President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso; the Brazilian Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes; the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, and the president of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Julio Velarde.

Also participating are the special assistant to the President of the United States and senior of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere, Juan Sebastián González, and other researchers, executives and directors of the Eurasia Group.

Gzero Summit Latin America is a forum organized by the São Paulo Stock Exchange and Eurasia Group, a leading political risk research and consulting company.

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