translated from Spanish: Puebla Group announced postponement of meeting in Chile

On Tuesday, the Puebla Group, a group of progressive leaders from Latin America, announced the postponement of the meeting in Chile, in its first local version, scheduled for the first fortnight of December. In this way, the activity – which would be inaugurated by the President-elect of Argentina Alberto Fernández, member and one of the founders of the initiative together with Marco Enríquez-Ominami – will be rescheduled for an upcoming date that will be informed in the following days. The reason for the postponement responds to the lack of political stability in the country, following the social outburst, a scenario that is not consistent with the intention of unity to foster the progressism that the grouping seeks. In this regard, Enríquez-Ominami explained in his twitter account that “today the government of Sebastián Piñera has not achieved minimums of stability that guarantee the realization of a successful debate with all progressive leaders”. For his part, the president of the Progressive Party of Chile and one of the organizers of the event in Santiago, Camilo Lagos, emphasized that “Sebastián Piñera has taken the country to the extreme of instability and repression”, he added that “we believe that it is the instance of accompany our compatriots in their fight for a better country and leave for a better time, the organization of this important meeting with the President of Argentina, former Presidents, chancellors of Latin America and Chilean progressiveism”. One that was no stranger to the cancellation of the activity was José Antonio Kast, leader of Republicans, who on his twitter account said: “Good news. The Latin American union of left-wing corruption and losers does not come to Chile. They’ve done enough damage!”

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