He President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, considers that the Latin American president with whom he feels most aligned is the Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, while sees the Colombian Gustavo Petro as “a leftist snob”, the Salvadoran Nayib Bukele as “arrogant” and the Argentine Javier Milei “full of himself”, according to a report published this Monday by the American magazine The New Yorker.
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The report, prepared during a series of various meetings with Noboa between March and April, profiled the youngest president in Latin America, the perception he has of himself in the “war” he has declared against organized crime gangs and the impression he has of his counterparts in the region.
When asked about the current president of Latin America with whom he feels most identified, Noboa named Lula and he recalled that he met him fifteen years ago during a meeting of businessmen in Mexico organized by the magnate Carlos Slim.
‘A leftist snob’: what Daniel Noboa thinks of Gustavo Petro
About Petro, the Ecuadorian ruler He described the Colombian president as “a leftist snob”, although he acknowledged that “he is intelligent, but he is not getting anything done.”
A ‘snob’, according to the definition of the Royal Spanish Academy, is an individual who ‘affectedly imitates the manners, opinions, etc., of those whom he considers distinguished’.
Regarding Milei, Noboa also considered that so far he has not demonstrated any merit as president.
“I don’t know why he thinks he’s so great. He hasn’t accomplished anything since he became president. He seems full of himself, which is very Argentine, by the way,” Noboa said about the head of state of Argentina according to statements cited by The New Yorker.
When mentioning Bukele, with whom he has been repeatedly compared for his frontal policy against criminal gangs and the militarization of prisons, Noboa assured, according to the words quoted by the magazine, that “the guy is arrogant and only seeks to control power for himself and make his family rich.”
Noboa, who attended the presidential inaugurations of both Milei and Bukele, has always tried to distance himself from comparisons with the Salvadoran president. by arguing that his government plan has more axes than just security and the fight against organized crime mafias.
When reminded that Bukele described himself for a time on social networks as “the coolest dictator in the world,” the head of state of Ecuador noted that “yes, but from a country the size of Guayas (coastal province of Ecuador). whose capital is Guayaquil).
About Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Noboa considered that “everything seems correct (with him)” but according to The New Yorker he regretted that he is corseted by his far-left associates. “It’s a problem that I don’t have,” said the Ecuadorian president.
In November, Ecuador will host the Ibero-American Summit, the meeting space between the heads of State and Government of this region, whom the host country must invite to travel to the southern Andean city of Cuenca.
The foreign policy of the Noboa administration has been strongly marked by the assault carried out in April on the Mexican Embassy in Quito. to arrest Jorge Glas, who was vice president of Rafael Correa (2007-2017) and for whom there was an arrest warrant issued by a judge, an episode due to which Mexico broke relations with Ecuador.
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