Montevideo (EFE).- The former president of Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica (2010-2015) pleaded this Wednesday at his farm in Montevideo for a “more federal” Spain that “shelters the different peoples who live in Iberia.”
Mujica’s words are part of the visit to the River Plate country of the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, as part of his nine-day Latin American tour, in which he travels to Colombia, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina to strengthen their relations relations with these South American countries.
After the conversation, which lasted just over an hour, Mujica said that “it was a fraternal meeting, as if we had known each other for a long time”, and he said that in the Río de la Plata there is “an idea of the adventures of the Catalan people, of their dreams, their hopes and their setbacks”.
“Since in today’s world there are plenty of problems, we were commenting on some things about that old Europe that was so intelligent and that today seems less intelligent and we hope that it will change,” said the former senator and leader of the leftist Broad Front.
Also present at the talk were the Minister of Foreign Action and the European Union of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Meritxell Serret, and the former Vice President of Uruguay and Mujica’s wife, Lucía Topolansky.