12/24/2020 4:04 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/24/2020 4:24 PM
Luis María Kreckler is
a strong man in the world of diplomacy
.
In the last ten years he held key embassies, both in the governments of Cristina Kichner and Mauricio Macri.
But today it is news because the Government decided to remove him from his position at the Embassy in China in the middle of the negotiations to buy the vaccine against the coronavirus that that country produces.
Kreckler is a sociologist and career diplomat, who held
senior positions in the economic area of the Foreign Ministry in the Kirchner governments
.
He was also Secretary of Trade and International Economic Relations of the Foreign Ministry and, previously, since 2005, Undersecretary of International Trade.
He was a key official in the organization of trade missions that led Argentine businessmen to offer their products to the world during the K era. In 2011, the former president and current vice president, Cristina Kirchner, surprisingly appointed him as
Argentine ambassador to Brazil
.
At the time, Kreckler was on preliminary lists for the London embassy and as a likely post-
Hector Timerman
chancellor
.
In 2015, he was mentioned as a potential vice chancellor and even a minister if they elected a career official.
Kreckler held the head of the Argentine embassy in the People's Republic of China since the end of Mauricio Macri's mandate, where the political ambassador
Diego Guelar
was at the head of the headquarters
.
At first it was thought that
Sabino Vaca Narvaja
, a teacher and political leader and son of Montonero leader
Fernando Vaca Narvaja
, and brother of the father of
Florencia Kirchner's
daughter,
would go to that embassy
.
Before being appointed to China, Kreckler was serving as ambassador ambassador to Switzerland.
There he was posted after controversial pressure from Macri's former Transport Minister,
Guillermo Dietrich
, to remove him from the German embassy, where he ended up placing another diplomat who caused a scandal.
Now, his departure from the embassy was decided at a delicate moment, as the government negotiates with China the purchase of millions of doses of the Sinovac vaccine.
Precisely that would have been one of the problems of Minister Felipe Solá against Kreckler, who did not want to report his movements to him.
President Alberto Fernández also lowered his thumb.
There were already papers to be signed for some type of memorandum of understanding, on which Kreckler did not report to Solá but to the Ministry of Health and to Gustavo Béliz, in the Presidency.
And for Solá, himself in trouble with President Alberto Fernandez, it was a "high treason" from Kreckler.
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