Natasha Niebieskikwiat
02/24/2021 9:44 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/24/2021 10:16 AM
The President is satisfied with the visit he made to Andrés Manuel López Obrador and which ends this Wednesday in Iguala, Guerrero state, about 190 km by land from the autonomous city of Mexico.
He was the guest of honor of his colleague and they will speak together at the event for the 200 years of Mexican independence from Spain.
In a moment of distention with his collaborators this Tuesday night, Alberto Fernández would agree to return to talk about the scandal over the privileged vaccination of officials, former family officials, and young people who are the cause of scandal in Argentina and that seriously marred his trip to Mexico .
But he is
still very angry about the repercussions of it, especially because they continue, grow
and accumulate complaints from the Justice and the opposition.
The president does not back down from his strong definitions on Tuesday that he defined the investigations mounted by the justice on the VIP vaccination as a "clown."
"This is a war of cynics," he will tell Clarín because he
assures that many powerful "have asked" for the vaccine
- he does not give the names - and only officials who "did not deserve it" were exposed because they were able to be vaccinated due to age for being risk groups.
He gave names: his chancellor Felipe Sola, his economy minister Martin Guzmán, both with different reasons for applying the vaccine at the Posadas Hospital.
He is extremely angry with the prosecutor Eduardo Taiano
who once initiated an investigation to verify what irregularities were committed in the vaccination.
He was heard to say that they ask for the declarations of assets of the men of Justice and that they return to work on investigations that they did not do on the previous management, something he said already at the conference on Tuesday morning.
Alberto Fernández does not deny that there were excesses
but assures that he did not know about them and that he would not allow them.
"I don't agree with secrets, I don't agree with privileges" he will say.
He continues to be hurt by the dismissal of Ginés Gonzalez García and considers that this is proof that he punishes what is not right.
"But he did not deserve such public derision, it hurts," he will say.
"All this was led by the complaint of (Horacio) Verbitsky" will say about the statements made by the influential Kirchner journalist.
Verbitsky was the one who, trying to anticipate an investigation by Clarín on irregular vaccinations, last week said that he had been vaccinated in the Ministry of Health in an office specially set up for it and where other men of power paraded such as legislators Jorge Taiana and Eduardo Valdes;
to whom Alberto Fernández came down from the delegation that accompanies him in Mexico.
Here the president wanted to turn the page to the scandal with actions in Buenos Aires, but could not.
The splinters from Argentina continued to arrive despite the publication of the list of 70 vaccinated by the government, and despite the fact that it announced a transparency plan and that the Chinese Sinopharm vaccines that arrive this Thursday will go first to teachers.
On Monday, in his press conferences called "morning", López Obrador said that in his country there is no vaccination with privileges and secrets as in other countries, a somewhat strong reception for a guest in trouble.
Even so, Alberto considers that he has had a great trip to Mexico and that he feels recognized by the Mexican as a leader in South America, a man "with whom you can always talk", who is willing to relate to all the political voices of any ideology.
The vacuum that occurs in the leadership of Brazil that Jair Bolsonaro does not occupy today is an example, they point out in the Government.
By the way, Alberto is not going to answer him, they say, neither the last nor the next attacks on networks as he did this week.
They say they are jealous of Fernández's relationship with his friend Lula da Silva.
What are allies in the demand to the UN for universal access to vaccines so that there is more balance between poor and rich countries, currently the gap is very disproportionate.
And he spoke of bringing this claim to the G20.
In the conversation that he and the Mexican had alone on Tuesday, Argentina and Mexico sealed their alliance and agreed to revitalize several economic bilateral agreements that they are negotiating.
Alberto Fernández spoke with López Obrador again about the Argentine negotiations before the International Monetary Fund, and says that the Mexican again agreed to help him as much as possible as he did during the negotiation with the beautiful private companies that ended in an agreement.
They spoke of the triumph of Joe Biden and of the perspectives "that it opens for the region".
Regardless of which López Obrador was a partner and ally of Donald Trump, Mexico's strategic position puts it in a better place to reach the White House than Argentina.
"We believe that with Biden we are going to recover an agenda that we did not have with Trump
and that Trump sought to break," said the Argentine president.
Now Fernández's idea that he is raising and says that López Obrador agrees with it, is that Argentina receives some benefit or concession when negotiating a debt that was disproportionate and that Argentina was not in a position to pay.
As the Mexican said in the press conference, taking the Argentine side, the organization loaned Macri money to win re-election (the Mexican referred to the "conservative government").
Fernández gets angry once again when asked if Cristina Kirchner asks him not to adjust to achieve a new economic agreement with the Fund.
This Tuesday he
said "enough to demonize Cristina."
And I assure you that he is the author of his own policies, and that in Argentina there is and will not be any adjustment.
In addition, he asserted that he spoke with the vice president of the vaccine scandal but that "she did not get involved."
Regarding the Fund's negotiations, which cannot be guaranteed to close in May, but which is in "complete control" in this regard, Martin Guzman points out that what he is asking for is some kind of understanding that translates into an agreement that Argentina not it enjoys the privileges of the central countries for not being central, but neither of those that the poorest countries also enjoy due to their poor condition.
Argentina is a middle-income country and is subjected to excessive demands in which the Fund, for example, has been complicit in granting Mauricio Macri a debt that could not be paid.
He will say that with Mexico in particular, Argentina wants to reverse the deficit of almost 850 million dollars that it has in the trade balance and wants to establish a new type of automotive auto agreement that avoids the liberalization of the same as it is scheduled by date.
Today there is a quota system that Argentina wants to maintain due to its own protectionist policy in a market that is much weaker in terms of industrial infrastructure.
Throughout the tour to Mexico
, the central place that Guzmán and the deputy chief of staff, Cecilia Todesca
, a curious personality in the government
occupy for his management
.
Exiled with her family during the dictatorship in this country, Kind, elegant, this economist is a government cadre in which she does not miss a word if it has not been agreed in high places.
With regard to some regional issues, although Alberto Fernández and López Obrador are deeply critical of the organization of American states that today is managed by the Uruguayan Luis Almagro and that is how they are going to do it, this newspaper knew, there are issues in which they do not They march together because Mexico has its own line.
One case is Venezuela. Alberto says they didn't talk about it.
The Argentine strategy considers that you cannot ask for the departure of Nicolás Maduro and Chavismo overnight "as you cannot govern without Peronism."
Mexicans are neutral. They acted with Argentina in the Bolivian crisis, for example, but that neutrality is their own - it is also unpredictable - and it has nothing to do with the alliances that Kirchnerism maintained with Chavismo for many years.
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