Fernandez asks AMLO to support Lula da Silva in Brazil

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently revealed that Argentine President Alberto Fernandez sent him a letter proposing an alliance with Brazil to help challenge the “outrageous reality” and “global injustice in which we live.”

Regresé de mi gira por Chiapas y Tabasco al mismo tiempo que llegó Beatriz, quien me representó en Chile y Argentina. Mi amigo Alberto Fernández dio respuesta a mi carta con una bella, auténtica y fraterna proclama política. La comparto. pic.twitter.com/IMAKEhPJSp

— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) March 14, 2022

Fernandez sent the letter to AMLO with Mexican First Lady Beatriz Gutierrez Müller, who attended the inauguration of President Gabriel Boric in Chile in her husband’s place, Mexican outlets reported.

In the letter, Fernandez further reminded AMLO that “we live in the most unequal continent in the world” and urged the North American leader to help build a new regional order – following the leadership of former Brazilian socialist President Lula da Silva.

“I have seen that you have been with my dear friend Lula, he is a great person and the greatest leader that South America has or has had. We should support him as much as possible. His victory would do a great deal of good for the Brazilian people, but would also allow us to strengthen the MBA (Mexico, Brazil and Argentina) – a bloc that could help the region achieve a better quality of democracy and, fundamentally, a fairer distribution of income,” Fernandez wrote.

This is not the first time the Argentine president has pushed to change the region’s current power distribution.

Fernandez met with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month and told him that Argentina must abandon its economic “dependence” on the United States and the IMF and that Russia could help reshape the regional power dynamics. 

"I'm certain Argentina has to stop being so dependent on the Fund and the United States and has to open up to other places, and that is where it seems to me that Russia has a very important place," Fernandez told Putin.

Fernandez also played into Putin’s Latin America ambitions and promised the leader that the “environment is very favorable” for Argentina to be the Kremlin’s “gateway to Latin America.”