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 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 had no need to apologize to Lula because he had only spoken the truth.

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

Javier Miley responded to Lula’s statement late last week that he would only agree to speak to the Argentine president if he publicly apologized to Brazil and to him. Miley, who invited former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to his inauguration instead of Lula and ignored the Brazilian entirely, made it clear that he did not want to speak 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.”