Dressed for the occasion, with jeans, a backpack on her shoulder and a Panamanian hat, Diana Mondino arrived at Expoagro along with a large delegation of diplomats, including the ambassador of the United Kingdom, Kirsty Hayes.
Brazil sent several representatives as did the United States.
"In all the years that this exhibition has been going on,
a chancellor has never come
," the Expoagro authorities greeted her by explaining that it is spread over 150 hectares in San Nicolás, it has a dynamic demonstration part of machinery and crops and another part of stands.
And where last year, despite the historic drought,
business was carried out for US$ 1.6 billion,
a figure that could be multiplied this year.
Mondino knew how to give back by commenting: "Argentina has the solution to the problems that the world faces in terms of food security, in production methods that protect the environment and capture carbon.
"All this is difficult to explain, it is hard work," said the chancellor.
Next to her, the Secretary of Bioeconomy, Fernando Vilella, promoter of the "live cow" for sustainable production systems, outlined the
benefits of direct sowing.
In passing, there was reproach to the central countries that
"talk about a green economy while destroying the environment by torturing the soils"
, unlike the direct sowing method that protects them.
Mondino, Vilella and PazoPhoto Maxi Failla
At that moment Mondino praised the work of Héctor Huergo for having evangelized on the subject.
Huergo is the director of
Clarín Rural.
Next to them sat the coordinator of the Secretaries of Mining, Industry and Bioeconomy and the eyes of Minister Luis Caputo in those productive sectors, Juan Pazo, whose
voice is not yet known.
In that intimate conversation, they asked about withholdings.
"
They are a disgrace, and the idea is to lower them
, but we have to achieve fiscal balance. Imagine that the lawsuit against YPF, for example, of
US$ 16,000 million requires four years of withholding income."
This definition made it clear that these taxes
will continue.
The chancellor expressed that her idea is to boost exports so that each of the 8 billion inhabitants of the world consumes something Argentine, whether it be food, something produced by industry or the knowledge economy.
He assured that "in the Foreign Ministry there are 5,000 of us and we work well," in obvious reference to the fact that there
will be no cuts in personnel
. "If everyone works, there are few of us," he also anticipated that there will be very few political ambassadors."
"You look like a surgeon," stated Norberto Frigerio, director of the Nation, intentionally.
"Neither a surgeon nor a cook
," said Mondino.
Someone immediately pointed out, but she is
"slimer than a chainsaw
" and the chancellor smiled.
Vilella highlighted that with the end of the regulations, last January
was the best in years for meat exports and that dairy exports grew.
"These are objective data," he pointed out, against the fact that
corn is already entering China, and beef and bone-in sheep are already entering Israel.
"Agriculture needs the financial cost
to drop
because each Argentine exports half of each Uruguayan and a third of a Chilean," the organizers of Expoagro reminded him.
"Everything is possible if there is stability," they added.
Mondino told them that 70% of exports are made thanks to ten companies;
"We want to expand and we are going to concentrate on SMEs," he promised.
Sitting in the golf carts to tour the exhibition, Clarín asked her about Javier Milei's upcoming trip to Ukraine, France and Spain.
Mondino, frank, responded: "
I found out from the newspaper."