Maduro says that what is happening in Argentina makes him want to cry

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, spoke today about the reform of the pension system approved between protests that left dozens injured and detained by the government of Mauricio Macri, and said he felt "like crying" before "what is happening" in the southern country.

"Look at what is happening in Argentina, it makes me want to cry, Tristeza," said the head of the Bolivarian Revolution, who said that "yesterday a crime was committed against the Argentine people" with "the excuse" of "balance macroeconomic".

"To overcome inflation they have to take retirees' retirements, Macri says he has to retire retirees," Maduro said in an act with mayors and governors.

The Argentine president has reformed the formula to calculate the updating of pensions with the stated purpose of fighting inflation in the country, which has, behind Venezuela, the highest inflation in the continent.

While Argentina has accumulated inflation of more than 20% so far this year, that of Venezuela exceeds 1,300% in 2017.

"You can face difficulties, but the first thing you have to do is protect the needy, the old people, the workers, the children, the students, protect the people, that's our model, protect the people" said Maduro.

The Chavez leader attributed to "a bundle of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)" against the people "the reform of the pension system in Argentina, and also had time to denounce" the coup d'état "and the" electoral fraud "that His trial has taken place in Honduras.

Maduro said he had proof that US President Donald Trump has already "decided who is the (Venezuelan) opposition candidate for the (presidential) elections of 2018."

"The candidate that Trump has decided should be the next president of Venezuela brings a worse economic package than Macri, worse than Honduras, worse than Brazil," he added, warning "as a warning" on the alleged risks that for the Venezuelan retirees would have this supposed candidate.

"Surely many people in the opposition will not want retirements to retire retirees (...), a president decided by Donald Trump eliminate pensions, as in Argentina," concluded Maduro, who also said: " We are going to protect the social system we have built. "

Since the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999, the governments of the late President Hugo Chávez and his dauphin and successor Nicolás Maduro have raised salaries and pensions more than 40 times.

Venezuela is going through a serious humanitarian crisis amid the collapse of the purchasing power and the scarcity and unprecedented depreciation of the bolivar, the national currency.