Argentina’s president refuses to apologize for calling Lula da Silva corrupt

Argentina’s new president, Javier Miley, who took office last December and has so far had no contact with neighboring Brazil’s president Lula da Silva, has refused to apologize to the Brazilian for calling him a corrupt communist during the election campaign. . Miley, an outspoken right-wing radical who speaks without shame, said he did not need to apologize to Lula because he only spoke the truth.

“What’s wrong with calling him corrupt? Wasn’t he arrested for being corrupt? I called him a communist and he’s not a communist? Since when do you have to apologize for telling the truth?” Miley said in an interview with LN+, adding fuel to the fire that divides the presidents of South America’s two largest countries.

Javier Miley responded to a statement made late last week by Lula, who said he would only agree to talk to the Argentine President if he publicly apologized to Brazil and to him. Miley, who invited former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to his inauguration rather than Lula and completely ignored the Brazilian, made it clear that he did not want to talk to his Brazilian counterpart, much less apologize to him.

“Are we so fed up with political correctness that we can’t say anything to the left, even if it’s true?” the Argentine head of state said, concluding: “The interests of Argentines and Brazilians are more important than the ego, the inflamed lefty.”