11/16/2020 10:52 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/16/2020 10:52 PM
For the first time, President Alberto Fernández spoke of his expectations to improve relations with the United States after Joe Biden's victory in that country's presidential elections on November 3, while openly criticizing Donald Trump's foreign policy towards America. Latin.
The Argentine president affirmed that his elected counterpart in the US "has a great opportunity to generate another link with Latin America" and that his policy in this regard "is going to be better than that of (Donald) Trump."
He expressed himself in these terms during a videoconference he had with the Chilean leader and former presidential candidate of that country, Marco Enriquez Ominami.
Fernández said he had the "impression" that it is "very difficult for a (North) American government to put the link with Latin America at risk" more than the administration of the outgoing Trump.
"I am optimistic that with Biden we can be more calm, confident and maybe we can advance a little more and achieve better results," the president evaluated.
Among the points that generate expectations with an eye toward Latin America, Fernández opted for "banishing the idea of military intervention in Venezuela."
In that sense, the head of state advocated "to help Venezuela find a channel for dialogue so that all of Venezuela can meet again and Venezuelans resolve their future accordingly and not by inventing itinerant presidents who go around the world, which is what has passed at the request of the US government, "he said in reference to the head of the National Assembly of that country, Juan Guaidó.
"I am not very clear about how Biden's foreign policy towards Latin America will end up being, but I rule out that it will definitely be better than Trump's," added Fernández, defining the management of the outgoing US president as " very strong intervention "in the region.
"We are going to have a better link with the United States, basically because it is difficult to have a worse link," postulated Fernández, noting that Biden "has a great opportunity to generate another link with Latin America."
