What did Milei say to Petro?
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei once again showed his distance from the main leftist leaders of the region in an interview in which he called his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “ignorant,” and the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, a “terrorist murderer.”
“It is a compliment that an ignorant person like López Obrador speaks badly of me, it exalts me,” Milei said in an interview with the American network CNN en Español, which will be broadcast on Sunday, but of which the channel broadcast a preview this Wednesday.
The Argentine president responded like this when asked about the criticism towards him andexpressed by his Mexican counterpart and by the ruling party’s candidate in the next elections in Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum.
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The channel published a preview of the interview with Milei on its website, where it also states, although that video fragment was not shared, that in a section of the report the libertarian leader, who took over the Argentine Government last December, said about the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, who “You can’t expect much from someone who was a terrorist murderer.”
Milei, leader of the far-right group La Libertad Avanza, He has already expressed harsh criticism of López Obrador and Petro in the past, with those who are at the antipodes due to their ideological thinking.
Likewise against other leaders in the region, such as the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and like the Brazilian, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva