Natasha Niebieskikwiat
07/15/2020 - 9:48
- Clarín.com
- Politics
If harsh Kirchnerism does not interfere with the presidential agenda again, Alberto Fernández and his government will issue a series of gestures close to the United States in the coming days.
Furthermore, after Andrés López Obrador's appointment with Donald Trump last week, which unraveled Alberto F.'s idea that he and the Mexican were alone on the continent to "change the world", the Argentine president is willing to make his own trip to the White House.
For his part, Foreign Minister Felipe Solá, his economic team, plus the Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Béliz and the ambassador in Washington, Jorge Argüello , work left and right to emphasize the alliance with the United States. carnal relationship with Chin, which was further reformed in times of pandemic.
For this, it requires signs that have not yet arrived. Some are urgent. On his trip to Washington last Wednesday, López Obrador spoke to Trump about the need to support Argentina in its extensive debt negotiations with private bondholders. The journalist Carlos Pagni slipped AMLO's request to the American president on his LN + program on Monday, and Clarín confirmed this on Tuesday from official sources. However, the emphasis of that mention is unknown and what the result will be. Whether there will be a word or a gesture from Trump or the Treasury Department, both expected here.
The President's gestures to approach the Trump administration occur after a string of criticisms that Fernández himself issued against the United States, and while his ministers work in the opposite direction. One took place against Lula de Silva. In his virtual dialogue with the former Brazilian president, he said he missed him in power as well as Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa. There, he accused the United States of breaking Unasur, Celac and now the Inter-American Development Bank, because Trump put a candidate to preside over the body that competes for the candidacy of Béliz. But there are situations of greater proportions, such as the crisis in Vicentín, that reach the Treasury of the United States as a message of the Argentine situation. Trump is in the electoral campaign to try to be reelected.
But this Thursday, Alberto F. will star in one of those new gestures that prepare him in his team. It will be hand in hand with the director of the Belfer Institute for Latin American Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, Dina Siegel Vann. It will be in the context of the 26th anniversary of the terrorist attack on AMIA, which takes place on the 18th, and whose authorities Fernández received this Tuesday. By virtual webinar system, the president is determined to talk about anything and above all to make it clear that the United States and Israel are a priority for his administration. It will show that the fight against terrorism in Argentina is State policy, just as it was for Mauricio Macri.
Solá and Argüello are preparing another virtual meeting with the main presidents of the Republican and Democratic benches in the US Congress to discuss terrorism at the heart of the new anniversary of the AMIA attack. And all the ministers are participating in a series of talks with the influential Woodrow Wilson Center. This week it's up to Guzman.
In these months of the year, paraded by the Argentine embassy in Washington: Wilbur Ross (Secretary of Commerce), Nathan Sales (in charge of the State Department's Counter-Terrorism Bureau), Ted McKinney (Assistant Secretary of Agriculture), Sergio de la Peña (Assistant Secretary Hemisphere Defense Ministry), Mark Rosen (Executive Director of the United States at the IMF), Daniel Watson (Deputy Representative for International Trade -USTR), Kimberly Reed (President of Exim Bank)
Alberto Fernández had a gesture last Friday that went unnoticed. For the first time, since he was President, he avoided exposing himself directly to the Puebla Group, which was one year old. In this group of contemporary leaders, Néstor and Cristina Kirchner is the only president in office. There he said several words that have caused him conflicts, for example with Chile. To greet them, on Friday he sent a recorded message.
Another signal that has been emphasized in La Rosada is that in parallel to the privileged Argentina with China - the United States' greatest economic rival - Béliz carries out the agenda of América Crece, which is the disinvestment and infrastructure plan launched in the United States region. - still lukewarm - to compete with the One Strip One Route initiative, the new Chinese Silk Road. The commercial agenda is kept at the Foreign Ministry by the secretary for International Economic Relations, Jorge Neme.
"Regarding the IDB, we maintain our candidate who is Gustavo Beliz and we do not make our negotiations public," Solá told Clarín through his spokesperson, Lisandro Sabanés. Regarding the relationship with Trump, Sola said, the government "seeks to have a relationship with " its own identity, prudence and respect. " They maintain that" this government has kept the country within areas created in the previous government as a group in Lima. , the TIAR, although with a less active participation, ProSur. "And they recall that, economically, they are doing everything possible to reverse the increase in tariffs on Argentine biodiesel - a severe blow to the local market - that took place under the Macri government. .
In the Government they assure that in Washington "they understand that Argentina wants Maduro's departure and democratic elections in Venezuela, but not with the OAS methods." Thus they justify their recent abstentions in the body's resolutions. They affirm that they are betting with Mexico on CELAC, although Mexico - as always happened, had its own agenda with the United States. For that matter, it will be necessary to see what AMLO will do at the last minute with Trump's candidate for the IDB. The Mexican did not even protest against the wall he is building on the United States-Mexico border.
Among other currencies, the American has already said that he supported López Obrador's candidate to head the World Trade Organization, Jesús Seade, and not the Spanish candidate Pedro Sánchez.
Trump's candidate for the IDB is Cuban-American Mauricio Claver Carone, no more and no less than Trump's extremely trustworthy official who left Argentina on December 10, slamming the door because Alberto F. had his guests in its inauguration to a high official of the Nicolas Maduro regime. He was the one who, in dialogue with Clarín, ruled that the Argentine should choose between supporting democracies or dictatorships.