President Jair Bolsonaro, whose credibility has been shaken by a three-year foreign policy filled with controversy, blunders and shocks, had to see Argentina’s Alberto Fernández attend as a special guest at the G7 summit this Monday in Germany.
Bolsonaro has not been invited to any of the group’s summits since he assumed the presidency in 2019, although his diplomacy has promised rapprochement with developing countries.
In the 2022 edition, the German presidency of the G7 once again invited India to the event, and as in previous years, a Latin American representative was at the table of the rich countries. But if the name chosen in 2019 had been Chile, it was now Argentina, a country the Bolsonaro clan warned would be ruled by a “socialist”.
Today, diplomats joke, the name chosen to speak with other world leaders is a “socialist”.
In May, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz decided to choose Argentina as “a partner country of the G7 during the German presidency”. Fernandez had toured Europe’s largest economies on that occasion, something Bolsonaro never invited.
Speaking before other leaders, the Argentine leader openly condemned the war in Ukraine and described the events as a “tragedy”.
Trade flows and logistics, already severely damaged during the pandemic, have reached a critical point. The seas were militarized. “War spurs spending on weapons at the expense of much-needed investment in protein, health or education for humanity.” .
But just as Europe celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt the continent, it also warned rich countries.
“We don’t imagine a new Marshall Plan in Latin America and the Caribbean. We never have. But we imagine a new international order in which efforts are balanced, where advantages are distributed on an equal basis. We dream of not being discriminated against by the world center, and destined to be marginalized and forgotten,” he said.
source: Noticias
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