Ambassador Faurie is accused in Chile of leading a scandal and mistreating local politicians. They claim that the Argentine diplomat said that “my country was already an agricultural power while you were just learning to eat.” He would have done so before members of the Chilean embassy in Buenos Aires and the Chilean Consulate in Mendoza, they say.
In Chile there is a high sensitivity to any elevated tone and they remember the now former ambassador of Alberto Fernández in Chile, Rafael Bielsa.