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After seven months of almost total public silence, former Argentine President Mauricio Macri underwent an extensive interview on Wednesday in which he criticized the loss of freedoms in his country under the government of Alberto Fernández and showed his hope that the Venezuelan Army ends with what he defined as the "dictatorship" of Nicolás Maduro .

"We have to continue to maintain pressure until a force emerges from the Venezuelan Army that decides to end this," Macri said during an interview with journalist Álvaro Vargas Llosa in the cycle "La otra mirada."

"There are times in life that you don't like being right. I said many years ago, when (Hugo) Chávez was still there , that this was a dictatorship that was going to take a long time to resolve. Venezuela was giving in, thinking that it was possible to live together, and you cannot live with any attempt to affect our freedoms, "added Macri, who ruled Argentina between 2015 and 2019. Except for a brief speech at a seminar in Central America and sporadic tweets, Macri has not spoken since he handed him the Dec. 10 power to Alberto Fernández .

Macri's social-liberal government recognized Juan Guaidó as president and the ambassador appointed by him. The Peronist Fernández, Macri's successor, does not recognize Guaidó and withdrew the credential letters to the ambassador.

"My country Argentina withdraws from the positions of increasing the level of sanctions and claims against Venezuela, that hurts me a lot," said Macri, who believes that there are governments that are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic "to go for soft authoritarianism, light, which can end in a dictatorship like that of Venezuela . "

Macri said he agreed with former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar regarding the current role of the United States in the world political system. "I tend to agree. The United States, immersed in an electoral process, in the coming months is going to focus on its internal politics, as the Trump administration has already been doing. But I think that the United States continues to be a very important leader. I lived together with ( Barack) Obama and (Donald) Trump at the G20, and there was clearly a change in attitude. "

The former Argentine head of state, who sees "citizens who are millionaires in information and billionaires in expectations," criticized the global lack of coordination to face the Covid-19 crisis and mentioned the book 'Factfulness' by the Swedish physicist Hans Rosling , now deceased: "In This globalization does not take into account that there are some who are in the winter and others in the summer. This caused hasty decisions to be made without a scientific basis to back them up. "

"Globalization has proven successful in coordinating policies, unfortunately that with the coronavirus has been lost. Hans Rosling, who died two years ago, spoke of the future pandemic, that it was going to be a very contagious flu. It has to be managed With the data, not being dramatic or urgent, there has to be a balance between health prevention and people's mental, physical and occupational health . Concentrate all resources on the pandemic while abandoning other pathologies and health prevention on topics oncological, diabetic, neurological .... You have to have a balance, do things sensibly, common sense. And always taking care of freedoms. "

"The world will understand that it was a failure to have lacked global leadership to face this pandemic. If we had coordinated this in Mercosur, the Pacific Alliance, the G20, the G7 ... This caused credibility to be lost. It is like the wolf's tale, the citizen disbelieves everything that is being said to him. There is an excess of information that turns into excess of confusion ".

"I see it weaken," Macri said when asked about populism. "Liberal democracies are going to be strengthened," he added before criticizing his successor at the Casa Rosada : "(It is) a government that has tried to advance on freedoms, freedom of expression, the operation of justice, the separation of powers, private property ... But it has generated a reaction (in Argentina). "

"I am trying to give a space to the government that was chosen by 48% of Argentines to put their proposals, their solutions. But having destroyed a tool that we had recovered, which is the budget, is already severely affecting the operation of the democracy. That is serious, it will be part of the intense debate in the coming years. "

Vargas Llosa, son of Mario, Nobel Prize for Literature, and who co-wrote a book years ago called "Manual of the perfect Latin American idiot ," asked Macri if he will continue in the political struggle, to which the former Argentine president replied affirmatively. .

"Yes, I have a commitment (...). My commitment is absolute, I love my country, I am a fervent defender of liberties. In that battle I am, my first task is to strengthen the unity of (the coalition Opposition) Together for Change , to strengthen the leaderships that arise. I have always liked giving people opportunities, looking for these talents to grow and for us to have many leaders who are capable of defending these important flags. "

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