A section of the Kirchneriya will conduct a procedure with a former Greek minister recommending the “exclusion” of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund

The former Greek Economy Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, demanded the cancellation of the agreement between the government and the International Monetary Fund at a meeting with the “Superinex” group.

Hours before participating in an activity with a sector of the Kirchneria, the former Greek Finance Minister and global educator of the left, Yanis Varoufakissent a letter to the “comrades of Argentina”, in which they supported the idea of ​​rejecting the principle of the agreement between the International Monetary Fund and the national government.

In a video recorded for the “Superanx” group that makes up the vice president Beloved Budo and former Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alicia Castro, Varoufakis called for “excluding” any kind of negotiations with the multilateral organizationIn the middle of the interior for everyone’s front to sign the technical details of the understanding that Economy Minister Martin Guzman seeks to close.

My message is simple. The agreement between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund should be discarded. take the chance!,” says the brief preview of the video released by the official “Superanx” Networks.

Presented to the world press as a “Marxist teacher”, economist and deputy Yanis Varoufakis has become a celebrity and a kind of “rock star” in the economy Who is admired by fans all over the world, after taking the position of Greek Finance Minister. At that time, he tried to negotiate – unsuccessfully – a “Plan B” of his country’s foreign debt with troika European. His disagreements with the leadership of the “SYRIZA” party removed him from the government, although this political outcome made him an attractive international figure and a reference in discussions about the global economy, to the point of participating in documentaries broadcast by huge media platforms. flow Like Netflix, among them is the “Salvados” cycle.

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On more than one occasion, the Greek experience with foreign debt has been used as an analogous comparison to Argentina, and vice versa. Varoufakis relies on this type of analogy, as it tends to highlight the social costs of adjustments typically requested by the IMF.

Former Finance Minister of Greece He enjoys sympathy in a section of the Todos Front And the From the left in Latin America. Rather, he participated in the discussion tables on the external debt with the Minister of Economy, Martin Guzmanthe presidential candidate of Ecuador and an ally of Kirchnerism, Andres Arauz. Guzmán usually listened to and respected his ideas as a thinker: he included an article in one of his books in which he appeared as a translator.

Former Greek Minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks to the press during Julian Assange’s visit (Reuters/Peter Nichols)

In a session entitled “How to get out of the external debt trap”, in which Guzmán was present, Varoufakis considered that governments are asking “Planning to fight international finance In this space there is an “asymmetric game” where “the sovereign debt is used by an international coalition of oligarchy to exploit countries.”

This is a political battle. Argentina and Greece are two clear cases in which there is an enormous conflict of interest of the local oligarchy in the debts of our two countries. And what they do is play against our nations,” the Greek economist outlined during that meeting, which took place last year at the Kirchner Cultural Center.

Varoufakis incorporates a list of economists around the world as Joseph Stiglitz (One of Guzman’s mentors), Jeffrey SachsAnd the Mariana Mazzucato And the Thomas Beckettwho is highly critical of the capitalist system because it has emphasized inequality in income distribution in the past thirty years.

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The economist, writer and university professor is participating this Thursday in the “Superanx” activity that will take place at the Mojica Cultural Center at 7:00 pm. The group proposes that the agreement with the International Monetary Fund be submitted to a “popular consultation”It is a mechanism that was applied in the Greek experience, but its negative result was not taken into account by the Syriza government.

Yanis Varoufakis during an interview with Reuters.  Behind him, his party's motto MeRA25 (Reuters / Kostas Baltas)
Yanis Varoufakis during an interview with Reuters. Behind him, his party’s motto MeRA25 (Reuters / Kostas Baltas)

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