Argentina’s Kirchner “insulted” by border barrier plan

Argentine president Nestor Kirchner criticized U.S. plans to erect a 700-mile barrier along its southern border with Mexico. Said Kirchner yesterday during a speech in front of Mexican federal legislators:

“We ask those building this wall of shame to think over and understand that the world has to walk other ways… It's not just an insult to our sister nation of Mexico, but to all the nations of Latin America and all the nations of the world.”

With his remarks, Kirchner joins a growing list of people against the U.S. border fence plan:

• Mexican environmentalists
• Rich landowners living in U.S. border states
• Scientists in Arizona
• The mayor of Brownsville, Texas
• Current Mexican president Felipe Calderon
• Former Mexican president Vicente Fox
• Senior members of the European Union
• U.S. presidential candidate Bill Richardson
• Several Latin American leaders

Image- Yahoo! News (“Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner talks with the President of Mexico's Senate Manlio Beltrones during his visit to the Mexican Senate in Mexico City, Monday, July 31, 2007”)

Sources- People’s Daily Online, ABC News, USA TODAY, The Latin Americanist