Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded this Thursday to the attacks launched by the Argentine president, Javier Milei, in an interview with the American network
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. In the previews of a program that will be broadcast in full next Sunday, the South American president called him ignorant. “That an ignorant person like López Obrador speaks ill of me exalts me,” he said. From Chiapas, where he went to spend Holy Week, the Mexican president sent a message through social networks. “Milei claimed that I am 'ignorant' because I called him a 'conservative brat'. You are right: I still do not understand how the Argentines, being so intelligent, voted for someone who is not accurate, who despises the people and who dared to accuse his countryman [Pope] Francis of being a 'communist' and a 'representative'. of the Evil One on Earth', when it comes to the most Christian Pope and defender of the poor that I have ever known or heard of," he wrote in X.
The words that Milei launched on American television have not yet been published in their entirety and have already put diplomatic relations in the region in check. The Argentine accused the Colombian president of being “a terrorist murderer.” Previous attacks on Petro had caused the rejection of the Embassy in Buenos Aires. But this time he went too far. The Colombian Government decided to expel a group of Argentine diplomats from Bogotá. López Obrador's response this Thursday ended with a post: “I hug Gustavo Petro.”
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