Cafiero highlighted the role of Lula and Alberto Fernández to “solve inequality gaps”

In the framework of the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva as president of Brazil, Santiago Cafiero, Minister of Foreign Affairs, highlighted the role of the president together with Alberto Fernández to overcome the existing problems in Latin America. That leadership that Alberto built almost alone in the first years, is now going to be put on another scale, on another level with the arrival of Lula,” he said in the first place. Along these lines, the foreign minister said that “we now have before us the great challenge of Alberto and Lula to transform that relationship of friendship of mutual respect and that look with respect to Latin American integration, with respect to resolving inequality gaps, not only within our countries, but also towards the entire region.” According to Telam, Cafiero emphasized the support they gave to Lula when he was imprisoned. “We always remember with President Alberto Fernández when, as a candidate, we came to visit him when he was unjustly imprisoned,” he said. On the other hand, he spoke about the importance of the relationship between the two countries for the national economy. “Brazil is the main destination for Argentine SMEs. When an SME decides to export, it decides to improve the wages it pays, internationalize its products and its first destination is always Brazil, it is the market that gives them scale. It is Mercosur, because it is also Uruguay and Paraguay, but fundamentally it is Brazil and from there to the world,” Cafiero said.

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