Sergio Massa and the G7: investments, IMF and doubts about the power of La Cámpora at the dinner with the ambassadors

They ate meat and fish alternately. They drank German wine. After all, the guest was the German ambassador to Argentina, Ulrich Sante. this Friday night, the ambassadors of the so-called G7the group of seven rich and industrialized countries, they dined with Sergio Massa.

Since Germany chairs the Group, Sante has been entrusted with the invitation to the Minister of Economy, Agriculture and Production, who has assumed a special centrality, directly proportional to the level of crisis in the Argentine economy.

The tweet that the diplomat wrote about Friday’s dinner reads as follows: “Representatives of the @ G7 in Argentina shared dinner today with @SergioMassa analyzing the current economic and financial situation in Argentina and the challenges the country faces. to increase its integration into the global economy “

Massa had already attended the G7 summit held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, at the end of June. He accompanied Alberto Fernández – he had also accompanied him to the Summit of the Americas -. Those were the times when the now former president of the Chamber of Deputies and leader of the Renewal Front negotiated his entry into the Cabinet with a larger portfolio than former minister Martín Guzmán had at the time.

Massa was accompanied this Friday only from your international affairs advisor, Gustavo Martínez Pandiani, who is Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Other witnesses of the dinner assure that there was a climate of sincerity. This was expected because Sante, who two days ago brought the mayor of Hamburg with about twenty businessmen to Buenos Aires, is a tough, pragmatic man and that wants to sustain a pragmatic and commercial link.

The meeting discussed the real possibilities of Argentina provide a world in the future e to a Europe that needs energy in the context of the war with Ukraine which has lasted for more than six months. The potential is immense, the infrastructure is between underdeveloped and wasted.

Massa was asked How are the negotiations with the Monetary Fund coming?that the Argentines now want to reformulate in the context of a crisis of dollar shortage in the Central Bank’s reserves, which continue to in critical condition and I don’t see any resolution.

And even though they told the minister they wanted to help, there were those who showed up concern about the blockade capacity faced by the Frente de Todos coalition from the ultra-Christian sectors, among them The Campora. His colossal reaction to the Cristina Kirchner trial once again draws the ghost against an alleged “external interference” and “neoliberal”.

Massa, who is about to do it trip to the United States on 6 September -there is a meeting with Fund number one Kristalina Georgieva, among other officials of multilateral organizations and businessmen- she told them about her idea of investments in hydrocarbons and mines.

Ambassadors Marc Stanley (United States), Amador Sánchez Rico (from the European Union), Reid Douglas Sirrs (Canada), Claudia Scherer-Effose (France), Fabricio Lucentini (Italy), Elizabeth Green, head of the United Kingdom, as Ambassador Kirsty Hayes is not in the country. And a Japanese official representing Ambassador Takahiro Nakamae.

From the minister’s team they indicated that the goal of the meeting was “streamline joint work mechanisms that allow to speed up business between Argentina and the main industrialized economies of the world “.

They pointed out that Massa outlined his plan – “the roadmap” – for the next few years, and then explained “the main measures announced by the economic team to stabilize the macroeconomy and improve the business climate” in Argentina.

In this sense, Massa told them that Argentina was “in a position to become a decisive international player on the basis of the increase in the production and export of energy, proteins, agri-food, critical minerals and human resources“.

On this point, he focused on the convenience of “investing in the real Argentine economy”, which for the country, he marked, would imply “increase the supply of these critical goodsthey add value to exports and supply the global market“.

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