In the 1990s, Argentine foreign policy was marked by a phrase that is still uncomfortable today: the “Carnal relationships” With the United States. The then Chancellor Guido Di Tella He launched it to synthesize the total alignment of the Government of Carlos Menem with Washington, in a context of cold postwar and search for international legitimacy.
The expression, closer to media provocation than to diplomatic language, generated stupor inside and outside the country. Aware of the error, Di Tella then tried to clarify it, explaining that he was referring to a narrow and privileged link with the power of the north, but the footprint was recorded in the collective memory as a symbol of subordination.
Three decades later, Javier Milei revives that ghost with a different language and dependence, but in similar background. The political and financial support promised by Donald Trump It appears as a salvation table for a management hit by recession, persistent inflation and internal tensions in its own space.
As in the nineties, the resource to American “help” reflects more domestic weakness than diplomatic strength. And also as then, the political cost is measured in terms of autonomy: the greater the need for dollars and international support, the more the ability to negotiate from equal to equal is reduced.
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