With no signs of pain in the waist
from the herniated disc for which he underwent surgery 10 days ago for a
lumbar block
, the President returned
to New York for the second time in 6 months
.
His landing in midtown Manhattan, where he will again stay a few blocks from Central Park, is the prelude to his long-awaited and postponed bilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden.
The confirmation of the meeting brought more than satisfaction to the Argentine delegation.
"
We would have been willing to return to Buenos Aires from the Dominican Republic and travel again
," said a member of the delegation.
It was not necessary.
Officials from the Argentine outpost who left Ezeiza with nothing more than summer clothes in their suitcases, because the Caribbean heat awaited them, have already resigned themselves to having to buy coats in New York.
Fernández's New York agenda is a permanent
work in progress
, led by Ambassador
Jorge Argüello
, who is in charge of welcoming the President with a hug on the steps of the Aerolíneas Argentinas charter and fulfilling
his promise
that there would be a meeting with Biden.
"And Macri says that we are isolated from the world," Fernández ironized in private, shortly before arriving in the United States.
The only truly relevant thing will happen on Wednesday in the Oval Room of the White House that Fernández will set foot in for the first time.
When Néstor Kirchner visited George W. Bush and told him to pay
more attention to his actions than to his words
, the then Chief of Staff Fernández stayed behind to monitor the management of the Casa Rosada.
Economy Minister
Sergio Massa
, a regular visitor to the city that also houses the IMF headquarters, will join the entourage this Tuesday in Washington, barely a week after the war between
Balcarce
50 and the Palacio de Hacienda.
The truce is fragile.
In the environment of the president they recognize Massa's courage to grab a hot coal.
At the same time, they detail that
if he keeps his word - he is not a candidate and remains as Minister of Economy until December 10 - he will have a clear chance to reverse the mistrust that
he arouses in a sector of the electorate.
The leader of the Renewal Front will have his own agenda in DC.
As in every trip of an Argentine president to the Big Apple, Fernández plans to share a dinner with
Susan Seagal
, the president of the Council of the Americas and businessmen and investors.
Against the clock he thinks about a
meeting with scientists
at the Argentine Consulate in this city.
Before landing on US soil, the head of state regretted not having been able to attend the first concert at the Olivos residence, led by
Lito Nebbia and Lito Vitale
and it is the first step in an "opening" that seeks to change the face of the presidential residence.
From the Socialist International to Biden
Socialist International.
Alberto Fernández with leaders of the center-left of Ibero-America.
In the President's own opinion, the best thing he took away from his trip to Santo Domingo was the meeting with the Spanish Prime Minister
Pedro Sánchez
and the European Union Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
Joseph Borrell
.
In the middle, an Ibero-American Summit took place, somewhat devalued by the absences of the Brazilian
Lula da Silva, the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador
, who added to the absences of the most discussed leaders in the region: the Venezuelan
Nicolás
Maduro
, the Honduran
Nayib Bukele
and Nicaraguan
Daniel Ortega
.
The election of Fernández has nothing to do with his friendship with the Spanish head of government and the head of European diplomacy, but rather with the acknowledgment that the Spaniards made of the legitimacy of the Argentine claim after the EU unilaterally modified
legislation
that affects the agreement between Mercosur and the 27 countries of the bloc.
The more protectionist or environmental regulations affect the exports of primary products of some of the Mercosur partners and the sales of
Argentine biodiesel
.
After receiving the congratulations for the world championship, Fernández told them that he is preparing with Lula
modifications of four chapters
that affect the agreement to balance the asymmetries.
Argentina exercises the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur and Spain is preparing to assume leadership of the EU for the next six months.
Fernández and his Brazilian counterpart will reissue in Foz de Iguazú the photo that forged the foundations of Mercosur starring
Raúl Alfonsín and José Sarney
.
The President is also enthusiastic about relaunching a negotiating table to speed up peace in Ukraine.
It seems utopian.
The president was also satisfied, because some of the speakers at the Summit, such as Borrell himself, reproduced fragments of his speech in which he demanded that the central countries stop saving banks that repeat systemic crises every 15
years
.
"The system must be drastically changed," he proposed.
Fernández acknowledges that he was tougher and more emphatic than in his previous participation in international forums.
He believes that the seriousness of the situation warrants it and that the concern is shared, as he verified in a telephone conversation with his French counterpart
Emmanuel Macron a few days ago
.
"They don't know where the bank crisis can end," he explained to his collaborators.
The idea that the States stop assisting the banks will not appear on the agenda with Biden, days after the Fed came to the aid of the Silicon Valley Bank.
Before leaving the Dominican Republic, Fernandez participated with Sánchez in a
meeting of progressive leaders
within the framework of the
Socialist International
chaired by the Spaniard.
The Argentine president, who is also head of the national PJ, does not think of reviving Néstor Kirchner
's plan in 2008
to register Peronism in the group of social democratic parties that make up the UCR, but he does intend to institutionalize a communication channel with heads of state and government in office such as the one he now maintains informally with the Chilean Gabriel Boric and the Colombian Gustavo Petro.
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