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Milei Reportedly ‘Not Interested’ in Meeting Mercosur Peers
- Argentine President Javier Milei opened a Mercosur summit in Buenos Aires on July 4, urging partners to pursue greater trade openness.
- Milei's push for reforms follows his December 2023 takeover and aims to transform Argentina's economy amid limited congressional support.
- He criticized Mercosur as having "destructive inertia," proposing a freer trade framework or loosening bloc conditions if partners resist.
- Milei remarked that Mercosur is increasingly losing its effectiveness as both a market and a unified regional bloc, underscoring ongoing difficulties within the group.
- The summit reflected tensions with ideological rival Lula and suggests Argentina might pursue unilateral actions or future bloc chairmanship.
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The head of state asked to leave behind “the iron curtain” and “destructive inertia.” If that did not happen, he said Argentina would ask to relax the conditions of unity. He also claimed for the gendarme kidnapped in Venezuela and thanked the support for Malvinas.
It was ten minutes to 10, when the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, stepped up the stairs of the Chancellery with an agile step, although he stopped at a few steps. Contrary, and together with his chancellor Mauro Vieira, waited a couple of minutes, until an inconvenience with the accreditation of his photographer was solved. Chancellor Gerardo Werthein went to look for the anteala, while the official transmission signal was inter…
The President called for the flexibility of the regional bloc and called for "reforms for commercial freedom." He left the threat that Argentina would abandon Mercosur's rules in the air.
President Javier Milei held today a series of meetings with leaders of the region and Central America, at the end of the Mercosur Summit that he led this morning and in which he called for greater flexibility of the bloc and warned that, if the group does not advance in that line, Argentina will do it "alone." One of the meetings was the Uruguayan president, Yamandú Orsi, heir of the Broad Front of the neighboring country. Before, Milei met with…
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