Natasha Niebieskikwiat
02/21/2021 18:11
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/21/2021 7:27 PM
Alberto Fernández leaves at midnight this Sunday for Mexico City, where on Tuesday he will be received at the National Palace by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador,
whom he considers his Latin American ally since his electoral campaign
with Cristina Kirchner.
The Mexican made him his
guest of honor
for the first of the events that this year Mexico organized for the 200 years of its independence from Spain.
For that, before his return to Argentina, on Wednesday 24, Fernández will accompany López Obrador in the acts for the bicentennial that will take place in Iguala, State of Guerrero.
Alberto F. is also of the idea on this trip that the ministers Felipe Solá (Foreign Relations) and Martín Guzmán (Economy) -who are part of the delegation- help him to
prop up economic relations between the two countries that are at levels low
and have a red on the bilateral balance of US $ 900 million.
One of Fernández's important meetings will be Tuesday with Mexican magnate
Carlos Slim,
who is financing the Argentine-Mexican production of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
And Guzmán is expected to discuss the status of the lengthy negotiations with the IMF over Argentina's debt with the new Mexican economy secretary, Tatiana Clouthier Carrillo.
Both will have a bilateral.
Alberto F. travels with the ghost of the "Vip Vaccination" on his back
.
Even so, the government says that they acted quickly with the dismissal of Ginés González García as minister, a "painful" act for a "friend", according to the president said this Sunday.
And they also affirm that the new minister Carla Vizzotti will guarantee a plan of transparency in vaccination "to avoid privileges".
The demand for universal access to the vaccine, for greater solidarity and transparency of rich countries vis-à-vis poor countries, is one of the axes of the relationship and of this second Fernández-AMLO meeting.
The president visited the Mexican on November 4, 2019 when he had not yet assumed office.
The VIP Vaccination scandal strongly damages the Argentine image.
In the Presidency they pointed out this Sunday that the scandal in the vaccination with privileges, the unforeseen work in the health portfolio and reasons "of presidential security", motivated the
changes of plans in the flight scheme with which the President will move.
Initially, I was going to travel on an AeroMexico commercial plane that directly connects the two countries, leaving this Sunday at 10 p.m. and arriving after 4 p.m.
In the end, Fernández, the first lady, Fabiola Yáñez, the secretary general of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello, and the presidential spokesman Juan Pablo Biondi,
will fly with him in a private plane that leaves at 12 at night
and arrives at 7 in the morning, approximately.
The rest of the delegation will travel on a commercial airline.
Among them, the Ministers Solá and Guzmán (Economy) plus the Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Béliz and the Deputy Chief of Cabinet, Cecilia Todesca, who lived several years in Mexico.
Also traveling is the chief of staff of the Chancellery, Guillermo Justo Cháves.
This Monday 21, at 10 in the morning, Alberto F. will begin his official agenda with a
meeting with Mexican businessmen and investors
at the Intercontinental Presidente hotel, where he is staying at the invitation of AMLO.
It is in the charming neighborhood of Polanco.
After noon he will visit the Liomont Laboratory with López Obrador, in which the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine is being finished processing, which is being jointly produced by an Argentine and a Mexican laboratory with subsidies from magnate Carlos Slim.
And the official agenda for the day will end at six in the afternoon with a meeting organized with leaders and figures of culture and literature by the Argentine ambassador Carlos Tomada at the Argentine diplomatic headquarters.
His meeting on Tuesday with López Obrador will begin earlier than early for the usual hours of the Casa Rosada: 6.45 from Mexico López Obrador will wait for him at the Honor Gate of the National Palace, and they are expected to give a joint press conference in much the same style. of the calls "Mañaneras" that the Mexican usually offers.
The two presidents will have breakfast together in a room near the presidential office and will do a joint act.
And already back at the Intercontinental Presidente -where his planned meetings will be to avoid moving around a city with restrictions due to the pandemic-,
Fernández will receive Slim
, a friend of Cristina Kirchner but with whom he met three times with her.
And after the magnate will meet with a group of Argentine executives who work in Mexico.
After three in the afternoon, he
will be declared a Distinguished Guest of Mexico City
by the Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum.
She is a strong leader within López Obrador's space, and of the preference of the Albertist palate.
Well, in fact, he was a Nobel Peace Prize - to which Fernández aspires according to the proposal made by a group of Bolivian legislators - for his activities against climate change, for his contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC for the UN together with Al Gore.
All this will be in the old City Hall Palace, from where Alberto F. will leave for the Senate.
There he will participate in a solemn session in honor of the friendship between Argentina and Mexico.
And finally, on Wednesday, the President will fly by helicopter to Iguala, in the State of Guerrero to participate with López Obrador in the acts for the 200 years of the Promulgation of the Iguala Plan / Day of the Flag Place: City of Iguala.
The Iguala Plan established the bases to achieve the consummation of the Independence of Mexico, united the Royalist and Insurgent Forces, by forming between them the Trigarante Army or the Three Guarantees, Religion, Union and Independence.
In this alliance, the search for concord between Spaniards and Mexicans prevailed.
This plan, was one of the first documents that allowed to have a legal support for the Independence of Mexico, it contains 23 articles that were the result of political negotiations between different sectors of society, composed of Creoles and castes that yearned for equality with the peninsular Spaniards.