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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero calling for China and the European Union to ally against the US and "put him in an impossible situation." The controversial words were delivered on May 15 by videoconference at a meeting of the Puebla Group , which groups the left-wing Ibero-American leaders and of which it is a part.

"I want to remember that it is very important that the Latin American and Latin American left make a dialogue with China to recover a multilateral order. Institutions like the United Nations, like the WHO, like the IMF, with more power, with more power, with more real governance, We have to make China and hopefully the EU, many of us are working in that direction, putting the United States in an impossible, impossible situation. "

"Probably the most interesting thing in political terms is what is the effect, what is going to be the effect of this situation in the United States, the political and social effect. At some point the America first and Brexit (...) will have to happen it turns him ", says the former socialist president verbatim, in an intervention that has now transpired after being disclosed by Vox Florida on Twitter.

It was the V Meeting of the Puebla Group, created in 2019, and which this time was debating on how to face the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges of peace processes on the continent. Former presidents José Mújica (Uruguay), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) and Ernesto Samper (Colombia) also intervened .

"It has been denied by the United States and nobody has taken, from international organizations, with interest that there could be a humanitarian parenthesis with the issue of Venezuela and its blockades or Cuba. In short, it tells us at what moment we are and the risk we have, "says Zapatero at another time, who also talks about the pandemic in Spain.

"A very important study has been done, a large serological study, 5% of the population has been in contact with the virus, only 5%," he says. "It means that there is no possibility of herd immunity, because the hundreds of thousands of deaths, or millions of deaths, in the countries would be immense. Therefore we have to ... control the virus everything that we can and know that we are going to have to live with this problem for a while while opening the economy. "

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