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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero went through Buenos Aires on a fleeting visit that showed him as an effusive ally of the elected president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, and critic of Felipe González's attitude towards Latin America.

Zapatero, who spent a few hours in Buenos Aires invited by Peronism along with other former Latin American presidents and heads of government to follow the elections in Argentina, expressed his support for Fernández, who will replace the social-liberal Mauricio Macri from December 10 .

"I have great hope that Alberto Fernández is the one who leads a Latin American unity project," he said in statements to AM 750 radio. According to Zapatero, Fernández may be the one who "leads a Latin American project, speech and action that exceeds the many fiascos that there have been of partial unions that have been, will be helping Argentina's own credibility. "

Zapatero, received at the airport on Sunday by Javier Sandomingo, the Spanish ambassador to Argentina, who went to fire him today at his hotel, accused Macri of having "forgotten Spain . " "It's funny, (Macri) had an American devotion, but he didn't do a task of approaching Spain as a factor of natural closeness for common interests, for history," said the former head of government.

Zapatero's statement can be relativized, since Macri has maintained a good relationship with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, an important ally for the announcement, last June, of the association agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur . And his relationship with the Government of Mariano Rajoy was very close.

"Become the great emerging force"

The socialist added that "from Europe" Latin America is seen with the ability to "become the great emerging force," and went further: "I am allergic, uncomfortable near rebellion, that ideological and economic interests use difficulties from a country like Venezuela to carry out a project of excommunication and ideological crusade in Latin America, when what is necessary to carry out political pluralism, democracy and social reform, social justice, social cohesion. "

Zapatero faced in recent years a mediation in the crisis in Venezuela that received harsh criticism of opposition to the regime of Nicolás Maduro. Fernández has already said that he does not consider Maduro's "dictatorship," but rather an "authoritarian government." The Venezuelan president last night welcomed Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a new vice president since December, as allies.

The former leader of the PSOE also referred to the differences he has with Felipe González: "The approach to Latin America and Venezuela in particular. That is notorious."

The former president of the Spanish Government said in Buenos Aires that he provided "with a little champagne" on the day of the exhumation of the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco and his transfer from the Valley of the Fallen, while showing himself as effusive ally of the Argentine elected president, the Peronist Alberto Fernández.

The former socialist leader was also asked if he had offered before Franco's exhumation. "Yes," was the answer. What did it take? "A little champagne."

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