The Diplomat
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Uruguayan ambassador in Madrid, Ana Teresa Ayala, on Wednesday to express her protests against some statements by the interim vice president of the Uruguayan Government, Senator Graciela Bianchi, about the PSOE, on the occasion of the elections of the 23J.
Bianchi, who acts as acting vice president for a trip to Europe by the incumbent, Beatriz Argimón, said that with the PSOE “the financing and values of the narco-dictatorships” of Latin America are assured.
On his Twitter account, Bianchi wrote on the 25th in response to another user who expressed his satisfaction with the fact that Vox is not going to form part of the Spanish Government: “With the PSOE, the financing and values of the narco-dictatorships are assured Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Iranian, ETA terrorism and Catalan separatism that wants to end Spain. A luxury option. But the PP won”.
For Bianchi, the current PSOE “is NOT that of (the former president of the Spanish Government) Felipe González, ‘sanchismo’ is that of the Civil War, in which communism and anarchism predominated; and if it had not imploded, the Soviet regime would still be admired.
“Stalin was the inspirer of that PSOE. Studying history solves it, ”she wrote.
The person in charge of transmitting the Executive’s complaint was the State Secretary for Latin America, Juan Fernández Trigo, although the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, held a conversation on Wednesday with his Uruguayan colleague and former ambassador in Madrid, Francisco Bustillo. Albares gave an account of that talk, but did not allude to the incident and limited himself to saying that they spoke “about the excellent bilateral relations between Spain and Uruguay” and that they will continue working to deepen them.
In addition, Vice President Beatriz Argimón, who was in Madrid this week to participate in the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat), assured Juan Fernández Trigo that Bianchi’s statements “do not institutionally represent” Uruguay.
According to the Uruguayan press, Bustillo also met with the Spanish ambassador in Montevideo, Santiago Jiménez, to apologize on behalf of the Government. There is talk of an “unfortunate incident” that should not harm relations between the two countries, which have historically been “cordial”.
After the controversy cited by his words, Bianchi stated on his Twitter account that “international relations correspond to the President of the Republic and the chancellor.”
