Paraguay presidential candidate says Argentines don’t want to work and ambassador responds

On April 30, general elections will be held in Paraguay, and presidential candidates have stepped up their campaigns and speeches in recent days. One of them was Santiago Peña, of the National Republican Association and former Minister of Finance, which referred to Argentine citizens to compare the work capacity they have compared to Paraguayans. “Argentinians don’t want to worksaid the neighboring country’s presidential candidate.

“I want a Paraguay where there is no one who wants to work and cannot find a job. For anyone who wants to work, because there are a lot of people who don’t want to work. Our neighbors here in Argentina don’t want to work, it’s a reality and it’s not true, we don’t have to come to that”, were the controversial words of Peña.

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Likewise, he assured that from politics they should “make young people and adults want to work and that work gives them dignity and freedom”.

“There’s no reason Paraguay shouldn’t be a much more developed country. It is perhaps the most developed country in the world,” said Paraguay’s former finance minister.

Given the host of the public event’s warning, with supporters of his party, that they had Argentines watching them live, Peña did not reverse his words, but instead cited an example to reaffirm the concept. “I had to go to Villa 31 in Buenos AiresI was with the priest and he told me that Paraguayans are those who work the most, there is not an unemployed Paraguayan. They change jobs and after two days they hire them, because the Paraguayan wants to work,” he said.

Given the statements of the candidate of the National Republican Association, the Argentine Ambassador to Paraguay, Peppo Sunday, he replied via social networks, accompanied by the video where the former Paraguayan finance minister shows Argentina as a bad example. “With all due respect, I want to say to Santiago Peña that The Argentine people are a people of work and effort“, he pointed.

“Every day Millions of compatriots rise to work in the most diverse activities and professions. Where the manufacture of satellites, planes, cars, trucks, medicines and heavy machinery and of different types and purposes,” assured Peppo.

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And concluded: “All these productive complexes give work to Argentineans and foreigners who are welcomed and received, among them the large Paraguayan community”.

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