Mujica, Alberto Fernandez lectured in Argentine university

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica and the newly elected Argentine president, Alberto Fernandez, on Friday gave lectures on culture, politics and late capitalism, to the youth of the Tres de Febrero University.

With his peculiar view and thoughts, Mujica called on the new generations not to succumb to the market because 'you will have the success guaranteed by the market, and you will be an eminent buyer, but hardly a happy human being.'

He also urged them to fight for a better world, to have utopias because, he stressed, it is possible to make a better Argentina, a better Latin America, a slightly better world, but it is not only possible, but also 'essential and necessary.'

On the other hand, the newly elected president of Argentina referred to the capitalist economic model, which always depends on a consumer and also generates a need for consumption where it does not exist, he said.

He asked to leave the logic of individualism and meritocracy to recover 'the ethics of solidarity.'

'The most important thing is how we are reminded. Success is not raising money but being loved by others.' Success is that, after leaving this world, people say 'this was a guy who took care of others, that's what truly makes us rich,' said Fernandez.