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Opinion: Argentina proposes Mexico to form an ‘axis against inequality’ with Brazil’s Lula da Silva

By · March 14, 2022 · 3 min read

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion) Argentine President Alberto Fernández proposed to his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador to form an ‘axis against social inequality’ together with a possible government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil.

It remains unclear whether Argentina is simply anticipating a Lula da Silva victory in October’s presidential election or whether the bid will hold even if he loses. We will see.

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A pact against inequality. Three of the most influential Latin American countries plan to celebrate such a merger of the left soon. However, it would be interesting to know more in detail what is meant by this since their leftist friends from the United States and Europe have been the driving force behind the introduction of health apartheid through covid passports.

No jab, no job. No jab, no public life. No mask, no entry. No vaccine passport, no restaurant. No vaccine passport, no access into shopping malls. And the sort. Axis against inequality?

But most likely, this word creation is new speech, which means that something is said, but the opposite is intended. So in this context, it would mean “pact for exclusion”.

“We must never forget that we live in the most unequal continent in the world,” the Argentine head of state stressed, leaving aside Africa, which is even more unequal (Photo internet reproduction)
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In a message published Sunday on his Twitter account, López Obrador explained that his Argentine South American counterpart had responded to a letter sent and delivered to him by his wife, Beatriz Guitiérrez Mueller. The latter represented him in various activities in Argentina and Chile.

“My friend Alberto Fernández responded to my letter with a beautiful, authentic and fraternal political statement,” the Mexican leader said, sharing the text.

In the letter, Fernández recalled Lula da Silva’s recent visit to Mexico and suggested that López Obrador offer the support of both countries to the former Brazilian president, who has publicly stated his intention to run again for president of his country in the October elections.

Fernández said that a possible Lula de Silva government “would allow us to strengthen the MBA (Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina), an axis around which the region’s politics could revolve in pursuit of a ‘better quality of democracy’ and, fundamentally, a more equitable distribution of income.”

It must be mentioned here that the driving force in ‘fighting dis- and misinformation’, new speech for the rampant media censorship spreading like cancer” comes primarily from Silicon Valley tech companies staffed by “tech natives”-Democrats. Thus calling their endeavor “striving for a better quality of democracy” is a verbal masterstroke of fact-twisting.

BUT AREN’T WE ALL MASTERS OF SELECTIVE PERCEPTION?

“We must never forget that we live in the most unequal continent in the world,” the Argentine head of state stressed, leaving aside Africa, which is even more unequal.

At the beginning of March, the former Brazilian head of state, who ended up in jail because of his ‘limitless freedom of movement with state money’, met with López Obrador at the National Palace, the seat of the Mexican executive in Mexico City.

Both leaders said they discussed Latin American fraternity and the struggle for equality and social justice, among other topics. Given Lula da Silva’s record, the issue ‘fundamentally, a more equitable distribution of income’ was undoubtedly on the table. Must have been.

Some verbally clumsy right-wingers could learn a lot from the delicious word creation of the left.

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