This Monday, during Lula’s visit to our country and the joint press conference they held with Alberto Fernández, Sergio Massa said that “Uruguay is one of Mercosur’s younger brothers. And Brazil and Argentina have a responsibility to take care of it”.
From Montevideo they picked up the gauntlet and responded strongly to the Minister of Economy. The economists Gabriela Oddone and Javier de Haedo, Pablo Iturralde, president of the Board of the National Party (PN), the nationalist deputy Juan Martín Rodríguez, who is a member of the Parliament’s International Affairs Commission, and even a journalist. She asked Massa to take care of “complying with the obligation to take care of his compatriots” and affirmed that Uruguayans “have been taking care of ourselves for almost 200 years.” “It’s called Sovereignty and Independence!” He concluded.
The journalist Patricia Madrid, meanwhile, affirmed that, with the “mess that they have inside”, it is better to be “only children”.
Iturralde warned that “brothers yes”, but that “nobody’s minors”. And he remarked: “Proudly Oriental. Let him see how international society respects us. The economic, the political, democracy index, Independence of Justice. I wish Argentina would take that course”.
Rodríguez asked Massa to take care of “complying with the obligation to care for his compatriots”, he reminded him that Uruguayans “for almost 200 years” have “taken care of ourselves”. And he concluded: “It’s called Sovereignty and Independence!”
Meanwhile, the journalist Patricia Madrid used irony and was blunt: “With the chaos they have inside, it’s better to be only children.”
