Alberto Fernández had a telephone dialogue with the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, with whom he had a series of dialectical crosses since becoming a candidate. The last short circuit between the two representatives arose after Fernández spoke with the Chilean representatives of the Puebla Group, a progressive Latin American space, and expressed his desire that the transandine opposition “bridge the differences to regain power”, something that was taken as an meddling in Chile’s internal affairs.
In this dialogue, in which the president was accompanied by Santiago Cafiero and Julio Vitobello, they agreed that they are facing “the same two adversaries: the pandemic and the recession”.
“We need to promote a system of Latin American integration with those two enemies that are common to the whole continent,” Fernandez said
Despite the pandemic conversation, the coronavirus also generated differences between the two leaders when Fernandez referred to the number of infected in each nation.
Chile has four times more infected than Argentina, but a report published by the Piñera government in Clarín indicates that Chile recorded 50% of its symptomatics and Argentina 13%, among other data that would favor the transandine position against the virus.
