Beyond the channels that the team at Martin Guzman has open with International Monetary Fund, Messages appear that are not well received by creditors and that complicate the negotiation. It is that Argentina stumbles on the international scene, according to the vision of the IMF and its main shareholder, the United States, and that generates resentment.
The assumption of Alberto Fernandez as president pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), with the support of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, three countries at the antipodes of the United States, did not go down well. “The representatives of the Member States expressed their support for Argentina in the negotiations with the IMF, to reach an agreement that allows the country to continue with its economic recovery,” says the statement issued by Celac. And then he criticizes the international body for “the unsustainable debt loads” that it means.
But it was not the only act that generated noise with the IMF. Because just prior to a conclave that will be essential for Argentina’s aspirations, between the foreign minister Santiago Cafiero and the North American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, a piece of news that came from Nicaragua made them put on alert.
At the inauguration of Daniel Ortega, the Argentine ambassador in Nicaragua, Daniel Capitanich, shared space with Mohsen Rezai, Vice President of Iran, with a red alert from Interpol for being accused of participating in the terrorist attack on the AMIA. From the Argentine government they claimed to be unaware that the Iranian official was going to be part of the party, but it was too late.
“Argentina sails adrift. Declaring yourself for one side or the other is bad, but pendulum all the time generates contempt for everyone and leads us to further marginalization,” former vice-chancellor Andrés Cisneros, foreign policy coordinator for Pichetto’s Republican Peronism, tells NOTICIAS.
The terrain of the negotiation with the IMF becomes swampy.
by RN
