Argentina's Macri: "In South America we are all descendants of Europeans"
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier today, Argentine President Mauricio Macri created controversy by declaring that "in South America we are all descendants of Europeans."
The comment was made as part of a conversation regarding a possible alliance between the EU and the Mercosur trade bloc of five South American nations - an alliance Macri staunchly supports but whose negotiations are stalled.
"We are all the children of Europeans in Latin America, mainly, so I think it's natural that we (Europe and Latin America) work together," he added.
Latin America, however, has long been one of the world's most ethnically diverse regions.
A 2005 study by Mexican sociologist Francisco Lizcano Fernández, "Ethnic Composition of the Three Cultural Areas of the American Continent at the Beginning of the 21st Century," estimates that while 36% of Latin Americans are White or "Criollo" (at least half White), some 40% are Indigenous or Mestizo (at least half Indigenous), and 24% are Black or Mulatto (at least half Black). The study is largely based on census data from each nation.
Today's flap at Davos underscores longstanding accusations of racism against Macri himself, as well as his right-wing PRO.
One of his caucus' most vocal congressmen, Alfredo Olmedo, has frequently proposed building a wall along Argentina's northern border as a way to slow largely Indigenous immigration from Bolivia and Paraguay, and often quotes U.S. President Donald Trump.
Olmedo has never been rebuked or censured by his PRO caucus, and while the administration has downplayed his comments, President Macri attempted to enact one of the congressman's proposals in August 2016 by decreeing the creation of a migrant detention center in Buenos Aires.
Facing public outcry, as well as injunctions from affected neighborhood residents, the proposed migrant detention center was never opened.
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Sure wish Macri could be slapped down for starting to wear his racism so proudly, now that enough fascists have wormed their way into power, for the time being. His kind most likely won't be staying as long as they presume. There are far too many people in the world now who know so much more about what kind of people they are, and how evil, how unworthy they really are in places of power.
Just a matter of time until the world throws them back out, as if purging after eating poisoned food.
Alfredo Olmedo has to be one of the biggest fools in Argentina. I just saw an article which describes him as having multiple mistresses, multiple children by multiple women, just like Trump. Apparently he hit the jackpot from a family which controls the Soy industry. Is that it? I didn't read very closely.
His idea of Argentina's own wall is enough to trigger a wave of vomit. Shameful, crude, so stupid. Primitive oafs. He probably hopes to get payoffs from big construction companies, too, for involving them and awarding shocking profits they can suck up. "Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money."
And they get to pour hatred out on people different from themselves at the same time.
Macri should have been a little more truthful and admitted the invaders have controlled everything in the Americas since they started their genocide, torture, degradation, exploitation of people whose lineage in the Americas goes back thousands and thousands of years. They forced everyone to watch them pretend to be smarter, better than the conquered, abused, downtrodden, while they took everything for themselves, even the life energy, hope, and happiness, everything from the people.
Worse than maggots. They'd better enjoy themselves, in time, they are going to disappear, anyway. Wow, I hate people like Macri, etc.
Alfred Omedo has gone a little far, hasn't he, in making an utter fool of himself? Macri probably thinks of him as being someone like Quasimodo, and lets him romp, knowing there are dolts who love sideshows like him. Same here: Tea Party.
Alfredo Olmedo
Macrump!
