Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Argentina’s Kirchner “insulted” by border barrier plan

Argentine president Nestor Kirchner criticized U.S. plans to erect a 700-mile barrier along its southern border with Mexico. Said Kirchner yesterday during a speech in front of Mexican federal legislators:

“We ask those building this wall of shame to think over and understand that the world has to walk other ways… It's not just an insult to our sister nation of Mexico, but to all the nations of Latin America and all the nations of the world.”

With his remarks, Kirchner joins a growing list of people against the U.S. border fence plan:

Image- Yahoo! News (“Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner talks with the President of Mexico's Senate Manlio Beltrones during his visit to the Mexican Senate in Mexico City, Monday, July 31, 2007”)

Sources- People’s Daily Online, ABC News, USA TODAY, The Latin Americanist

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

From Mexico's point of view, isn't a wall keeping Mexicans *in* Mexico a good thing? I don't get the hard feelings about the wall. If people are crossing legally, the wall is no barrier.

As for Argentina's incessant anti-US blather, it's a joke. When Argentina achieves investment grade, maybe then will Kirchner's opinion be worth more than his boxer shorts.

Sildenafil said...

Well, I think these kind of ideas are another way to separate human race! It's not very different from the Berlin Wall!