BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's president apologized Friday after going viral for stating that modern-day Mexicans originate from indigenous peoples, Brazilians "from the jungle" and his own country's inhabitants come from Europe. "I am a Europeanist. I am someone who believes in Europe," Alberto Fernandez said as he and visiting Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez met with business leaders in Buenos Aires. Mexican poet Octavio Paz, he claimed, once wrote that "Mexicans came from the Indians, Brazilians from the jungle, but we Argentines came from boats, and they were boats that came from there, from Europe," he was quoted as saying.

Source: Manila Times June 12, 2021 11:40 UTC