The Secretary of State of USAAntony Blinken, this Friday, gave a boost to the new president of Argentina, the ultra-libertarian Javier Mileiand his economic reform plan despite the president’s closeness to donald trumpgreat rival of the American president, Joe Biden.
Blinken traveled to Buenos Aires to meet with Mileiwho has been in office for just over two months, in the first visit by a head of US diplomacy to Argentina dwarves.
Casually, Milei He received the Secretary of State at the Casa Rosada a few hours before leaving for Washington to participate in the Conservative Action Political Conference (CPAC), the great annual event of the American right, where Trump will be the great guest star.
However, Blinken overlooked this gesture during the meeting, designed to strengthen ties between the Administration of Democrat Joe Biden and the Argentina of Milei.
The meeting began, in fact, with a declaration of intentions from the Mileifrom the far-right party La Libertad Avanza, to close the gap that has existed between Washington and Buenos Aires during the years of Kirchnerism.
“Argentina has decided to return to the side of the West, of progress, of democracy and, above all, of freedom,” declared the president before Blinken and the delegations from both countries.
The meeting lasted more than an hour and even Milei He showed Blinken the historic balcony of the Casa Rosada, which overlooks the Plaza de Mayo, where the Secretary of State had taken a tour before the meeting.
In a subsequent press conference, Blinken and the Argentine Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino, exhibited harmony and avoided clashing over the admiration of Milei by trump.
“I am not dedicated to electoral politics, I do foreign policy and, based on that, what I can say is that I could not be more pleased to have met here with the president,” Blinken responded in this regard.
Dollarization depends on Argentina
Most of the meeting revolved around the shock plan of Milei to deregulate the economy and stop the unstoppable inflation that the country suffers.
At the press conference, Blinken said that the South American country can count on the United States “while it stabilizes” its economy, while expressing his support for the talks between Buenos Aires and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Regarding the possible dollarization of the country, one of the star campaign promises of Mileithe Secretary of State stressed that this “depends on Argentina.”
Blinken also expressed his satisfaction at seeing Milei’s Argentina as an ally of Washington in regional and international conflicts, a situation that contrasts with that of Brazil, where President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has distanced himself from the United States in the face of war. from Ukraine and Gaza.
The secretary especially highlighted that Argentina is an “important member of the global coalition” that supports Ukraine against Russia and highlighted the possibility of the Argentine Government organizing a Latin American conference for peace in Ukraine.
He also highlighted that Milei has expressed its “strong condemnation” of the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7.
Blinken, confronted with Lula over Gaza
With the visit to Buenos Airesthe Secretary of State put an end to a tour of South America that took him first to Brazil.
On Wednesday, Blinken met in Brasilia with the president Lulawhom he confronted for having compared the Israeli Gaza offensive to the Holocaust.
That comment by Lula led to a diplomatic crisis between Brazil and Israel, which declared the president of the South American giant “persona non grata.”
Lula believes that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip and has also marked distances with the unwavering support that USA and several Western countries have given up Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion.
Nonetheless, Blinken He said Thursday at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro that “friends” can disagree and that there are more similarities than differences between Lula and Biden.
In that same city, the Secretary of State participated in the G20 ministerial meeting, where he met with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.
Despite expectations, both avoided a bilateral meeting, amid the tension that increased even more between Washington and Moscow due to the death in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Source: Gestion
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