The Mexican president,Andrés Manuel López Obrador, assured that “Cuba is ready to go live there,” after concluding a virtual meeting of the Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Countries Against Inflation.
"Cuba is ready to go live there, and always, always, oursolidarity with Cuba and with all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean”, this is how the Mexican president said goodbye to the meeting, which was attended by leaders with ideological and political affinities from Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras , Mexico, Venezuela and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
As noted by astatement of the Presidency of Mexico, this meeting was held with the purpose of finding joint solutions to the price pressures and shortages registered in the region, in addition to advancing in the definition of trade facilities and logistical measures that allow the exchange of Mexican products. the basic basket and goods in order to reduce costs for the poorest and most vulnerable population.
The note also reported that to follow up on the progress of this alliance, another meeting of high-level authorities from the participating countries will be held on May 6 and 7 in Cancun, which will be attended by representatives of business sectors and organizations. of family and peasant agriculture.
The statement assured that this alliance will promote measures aimed at facilitating access to credit at the international level and increasing multilateral financing of agricultural, agro-industrial and infrastructure projects for the transportation of goods.
However, López Obrador's phrase has been described as “cynical” on social networks and several users reacted angrily against the expression.
“Send your children to live in Cuba,” suggested one user, to whom an Internet user replied that “send them to the real Cuba, to the La Güinera neighborhood (where they live on less than a dollar a day), not "I'm going to want to take them to live at the Iberostar Grand Packard Hotel."
“What an unfortunate comment. The same when he boasted that Benito Juárez was named after Benito Mussolini. "It's a joke," another commented, to which they responded that "there is no international event where I don't say something stupid."
Last February,Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel joined the group of Latin American leaders seeking to control inflation with a trade agreement between their countries, based on trust and transparency to exchange “sensitive products.”
Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Cuba would be the countries that would make up the agreement, drawing a new regional “integration” scheme that once again brings together the will of ideologically related governments.
“Andrés Manuel López Obrador [AMLO] called me and proposed launching an agreement with Brazil, Colombia and Cuba, which together account for most of the region's GDP, to help us with a problem that is common to all of us, as “It is inflation,” the Argentine president revealed on that occasion.Alberto Fernandez to the newspaperFinancial sphere, specialized in economics.
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