EXCLUSIVE: Argentina’s 58th President, Alberto Fernández, isn’t particularly well-regarded at home. During his tenure, he oversaw historic economic woes and is currently on trial for Presidential corruption. Abroad, his stock is even lower, with most people associating him with a series of comments he made on a trip to Spain in 2021.

“The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships. And they were ships that came from Europe,” Fernández said. He later apologized for the comments, which were widely condemned as racist. The offensive tetraptych also sparked a furious regional debate about Argentinians, who have long had a reputation in Latin America for regarding themselves as distinct from other Latin nations because of the lar

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