Pepe Mujica says that in Cuba “there seems to be a turning point”

former President of Uruguay, Jose “Baby” MojicaHe said in an interview that in Cuba “there seems to be a turn”, when referring to dictatorships in Latin America.

On the program “Mejor hablar” which is broadcast on Mondays before 24 hour channel, Mujica avoided describing the Cuban regime as a dictatorship.

The former president, who claimed to have had phone conversations with Miguel Diaz-Canel, referring to the Cuban political situation, emphasized that there was “a slow turn in Cuba, but there seems to be a turn” and added that Obama was “well inspired” in his approach to the Caribbean nation.

The 87-year-old told journalist Matías del Rio – when asked about dictatorships – that Nicolás Maduro “turned Chavismo” and called him a dictator.

According to Mujica, Venezuela is a dictatorship and these regimes punish the people. argument he had used Years ago when he was talking about this country.

“Dictators laugh and those who punish are the people,” he said in the interview, which was shown at his home.

In an apparent reference to the embargo and US actions against Venezuela, he ruled that economic sanctions cause hunger only for the people, not the rulers.

“Dictators eat well every day and nothing happens to them, and the people affected are the people,” he said.

For the former president of Uruguay, “we Latin Americans have not been able to build a nation, we have invented many countries and we do not exist in the world.”

At another point in the interview, he also added that the monarchical idea of ​​power still exists in the world. In his opinion, the Chief is the most representative of the team and described the character of the Governor as a Colonel of Fire “because he is a fire extinguisher.”

On the other hand, he said when addressing the current context in Russia, that the measures imposed on this country are nonsense on the part of Europe for not negotiating in a timely manner.

In an interview with the program “Salvados” of the Spanish channel VI, Jose Mujica told his story a few years ago That Obama asked him to worry about an American prisoner in Cuba (Alan Gross) and that he helped bring Washington and Havana closer.

Pepe also admitted that for much of his youth he lived “in support of the Cuban Revolution and that the Cuban people are very much loved”, but that he had a different vision of building socialism.

“With what happened in history, with what happened with the Soviet bureaucracy, one can draw conclusions” and “the dictatorship of the proletariat, of course,” because “The proletariat ends up having nothing and the dictatorship a lotand also “gives the impression that a new class is emerging, that of the bureaucracy.”

Mujica, from the Broad Front party, He resigned in 2020 from his seat in the Senate To avoid possible infection of Covid-19 and abandoned party politics.

Mujica said in his last speech 26 years after entering parliament for the first time and after gaining international fame that led him to Be the protagonist of dozens of books and moviespromoting transformative legal reforms such as equal marriage, decriminalizing abortion or regulating the marijuana market.