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On a visit to Portugal, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a business forum with the country's Prime Minister Antonio Costa. On his first European tour since resuming office in January, the veteran left-winger is seeking to revive his country's diplomatic ties after four years of relative isolation under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, but tensions have been on display with the West over Ukraine. IMAGES
Madrid, July 10 (EFE).- (Camera: Jesús Bartolomé) .- The former president of Argentina Mauricio Macri denied on Saturday having sent "lethal" ammunition to Bolivia to suppress the social protests that took place in the Andean country in November 2019 against the government of Evo Morales.INTERVIEW WITH MACRI.TRANSLATION:"The European Union and the OAS say it was an institutional crisis product of the fraudulent intent from Evo Morales, who mobilized the people in the streets, got scared and then stepped down. In that institutional crisis, the European Union asked the Bolivian congress to work within the constitutional frames to get out of that crisis. The congress chose an interim president tasked to call elections as soon as possible, which she did, and she did it so transparently that Evo Morales' party once again won but without Evo Morales." "The European Union does not accept that as a coup. My government in Argentina didn't either." "The things (they say we sent) are antiriot, not war material. My minister informed me that they travelled, with Morales already out of power, with the process in congress to pick an interim president, to defend the Argentinian embassy in Bolivia, where a couple of Evo Morales' workers were taking refuge, who had to leave the country for Argentina. I had already lost the election by then, so it was carried out in coordination with the incoming government."
Zagreb (Croatia), Jun 23 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Antonio Bat) Just 30 years ago, Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia, marking the beginning of the bloody disintegration of the country that lasted for a decade and four civil and inter-ethnic wars.In an interview with Efe, the last president of Yugoslavia, Croatian Stjepan Mesic, recalls how in 1991 an agreement was not possible between the different regions that made up Yugoslavia. FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF MESIC "As prime minister of Croatia I went first to be a member of the presidency of Yugoslavia, first as vice president, and then later as president - that was a traditional regulation, that rotation, the vice president is the one who becomes the next president, that was not voted on, that was only something that was registered. Whoever was vice president later became the president, and so on in rotation. All that always worked like that, until I came, and then Serbia opposed. But despite this, and only by will and the indication of the European Community, they accepted it, in the end they recognized it, it was only a few months, until the end of the year. " "But despite that brevity there were many events. With my arrival to the presidency of Yugoslavia, I was fully aware of how the situation was: in short, everything was tied, obstructed. All federal institutions were in lockdown, including the presidency Also the Supreme Court, and the Constitutional Court, everything. And I said, in this format, this model, I will be the last president of Yugoslavia. That is, we have to reach a political agreement. based on three integrative factors: Tito, with his charisma of a man who had won the war and of a great statesman after World War II. Second, there was the party, and third, the Army. Tito left the scenarios of life and of the politician, the party disintegrated because of Milosevic - the then head of Serbia, and the Army found a new tutor. I said, upon reaching the presidency, we have to reach a new political agreement . We no longer had the integrative factor of yesteryear, Tito, so now we have to look for something new. But Serbia wanted neither the federation nor the confederation. I proposed a confederation for a period of three-five-eight years, how long we could agree, and then see what to do. All constituent elements would proclaim their independence and sign a confederal agreement. But no proposal was accepted, as Milosevic, who was actually the main culprit, Slobodan Milosevic, the then president of Serbia, his regime, they were against any proposed federal or confederal political agreement. What interested them only was Greater Serbia. Meanwhile, Milosevic was deceiving the world, that he wanted to preserve Yugoslavia, in which the world was interested. The world was sentimental about Yugoslavia, since that was the main factor that had organized the Non-Aligned Movement, through which, in the cold war, the East and the West communicated, and Tito played the role in this. principal. Now, without Tito, that same model could not be preserved, and it was urgent to reach a new political agreement. But Serbia did not want it: that is, it deceives the world on the one hand that it is fighting for Yugoslavia, and it deceives the Serbs on the other that they are going to live in a state. Milosevic never promised the Serbs a Greater Serbia out loud, but told them that they would live in a state. But the policy was: you must bring the dowry: bring the territories, and that is how you are going to live in a State, that is, that was their policy. " "Yes, with the changes in Kosovo and Vojvodina, he (Milosevic) had already destroyed an indispensable pillar of equal rights in the federation, since the regions were one of its constituent elements. He simply annihilated those autonomies." "No, they did not violate the Constitution. The Constitution of Yugoslavia, of 1974, defined the republics as states, that by their will entered the federation, and that by their will they could leave it. That is, that was how it was. defined by the federal Constitution. That is why we had proposed the confederation as a possible peaceful solution, and then see, if things go well, we could continue like this, but Milosevic did not want anything, and all that pushed Croatia and Slovenia, and then to others also, to seek their independence, based on the Constitution."
Tehran, May 24 (EFE) .- (Camera: Marina Villén) Former conservative Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad assures in an interview with Efe that participation in the next elections will be "very low" if his candidacy is rejected and he advocates for a better distribution of wealth to "regain the confidence" of the population lost in the theocratic system.SOUNDBITES OF MAHMUD AHMADINEYAD FORMER IRANIAN CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT. **RESTRICTIONS: NO ACCESS ISRAEL MEDIA/PERSIAN LANGUAGE TV STATIONS OUTSIDE IRAN/STRICTLY NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN/VOA PERSIAN/MANOTO-1 TV/IRAN INTERNATIONAL** "It is clear. At the moment, if I am rejected, the participants will be very low and it is not possible to foresee in a certain way who will win.""My decision is again based on the request of the people. In recent years, especially in the last year and especially in recent months, there has been a lot of pressure on me from different sectors of the population, from different parts of the world, to present my candidacy""The concentration of wealth and power is a source of corruption, the weakening of the people, and inefficiency in the economy. Now, more than 85 percent of the country's economy is at the disposal of the government and the institutions of the system.""The distrust has become generalized, people distrust so much the governor of a village even the whole system. That does not mean that the whole system is guilty of creating such situation, but it is clear that when a problem occurs and the system does not have an adequate reaction, distrust among people is spread everywhere "."From my point of view, the JCPOA (nuclear pact) is finished and the reason is that it has not been regulated according to the norms of international law. It is a unilateral contract, and a unilateral contract has no chance of surviving ".
Quito, Jan 25 (EFE), (Camera: Juan Francisco Chávez).- Less than two weeks before elections in Ecuador, the country's president, Lenín Moreno, continues to keep his distance from the electoral process and assures he will transfer the government with its "accounts in order" and not as an "ambush" like the one he claims he inherited from his predecessor in 2017.SOUNDBITES OF ECUADOR'S PRESIDENT LENIN MORENO:"We found a country that was said to be prepared and it was not true, it was not real.""The president insisted, he told me we had to keep the revolution project he had already started and, to be honest, I trusted his words. I even believed the situation in which he said he left the country was real. But it was not.""From the beginning of my term and even before I said I would respect (democratic) institutionality, that I would not interfere in the judiciary power as the previous government had done and that I would respect the autonomy and independence of powers. ""If they want to investigate me, they are more than welcome. What I truly recommend is not to break (democratic) institutionality, not to interfere in the judiciary so we can keep believing in it because there is nothing more frustrating for a human being that not trusting (democratic) institutionality."
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