Alberto Fernández, Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero and Sergio Massa on their way to the Summit of the Americas, when the Minister of Economy was still president of the Chamber of Deputies.
when Alberto Fernandez assumed power in December 2019, he decided to comply with a request from who would be his chancellor, Felipe Solá, with whom he finally had a more than stormy relationship.
The hasty management of the now former minister left him a relative political success for the foreign ministry. This has recovered some international trade managements that had begun to lose with Cristina Kirchner and her Secretary “Commissioner” of Commerce, Guillermo Moreno. And he lost it almost entirely in the midst of Mauricio Macri’s management, who passed it on, even half of it to Production.
With the change of year from 2019 to 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs it was again renamed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship.
Between 2015 and 2019 the title of International Commerce was suppressed and a large part of the entire team of economically trained diplomats remained, if not without positions, under the lackluster management of Production. Hard blow for the strong Farnesina with a fusion of economics experts that had set up Domingo Cavallo and Guido Di Tella continued.
Now, the arrival of Sergio Massa to the Council of Ministers as Minister of Economy, Production and Agriculture puts pressure on the commercial area of the Farnesina, which is receiving criticism from local and foreign entrepreneurs and other ministries because they underline that their boss, the secretary of international economic relations, Cecilia Todesca, stays away from medium and large businessmen and closer to politicians and intellectuals when the position requires her to go out to negotiate and sell Argentina to the world.
Part of that criticism was heard again this week with the arrival in the country of the head of the Hamburg government, Dr. Peter Tschentscher, plus an economic delegation made up of 17 representatives of the German private sector interested in investing. They were received by the newly appointed Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Mercedes Marcó del Pont.
To tell the truth, much of the management of the Farnesina today belongs to Santiago Cafiero himself, who does well in political and commercial matters – he usually decompresses what Alberto Fernández cannot receive or tries to take diplomats and businessmen who do not they can access the President – in its Chief of Staff, Luciana Tito and in the Secretary for Latin American Affairs of the Farnesina, Gustavo Martínez Pandiani, who is also a point of reference for Massa there.
But Massa’s imprint as super-minister puts pressure on the Ministry. A gesture already seen with the lightning-fast trip to Brazil of José Ignacio “El Vasco” De Mendiguren, Minister of Production and with experience in international trade, and on the other Matías Tombolini, Secretary of Commerce of the Nation.
Todesca suffers from confrontations with his hyperactive predecessor, former secretary Jorge Neme, who after being appointed deputy chief of staff for Juan Manzur in September 2021 is now secretary of regional development for Massa. Neme hired two of the best remaining diplomats with economic skills who worked for Todesca: Pablo Sívori and Carola Ramon went to Economics.
After all, this Wednesday will be Todesca’s first meeting with the press since he took office almost a year ago. It’s your turn to deliver good news.
will she be? which explains the export record in the country in the first half of the year. They will follow a plan launched in November to reach $ 100 trillion in exports and provide an overview of some 140 overseas missions, according to the foreign ministry. On Friday, Cafiero will receive a delegation from India, and there is a mixed commission with China.
Natasha Niebieskikwiat
Source: Clarin
