Alberto Fernández will travel tonight to Los Angeles, where the Summit of the Americas is taking place, with some last minute changes and definitions. Starting with his own participation and the role he will play in the meeting, in his double capacity as President of Argentina and pro tempore head of Celac, when three members of those Americas had their participation prohibited.
But once it was decided that the trip was going to take place — around the end of last week — there were unexpected changes. One passenger less: the already resigned Matias Kulfas, which already had a defined work agenda there. One more guest: Serge Massa, who this Monday morning received the invitation from the mouth of the President himself in Olivos, and who until late at night continued without confirming or denying, and with the same answer: “he is organizing the parliamentary agenda.” on days where all own fires shine Within the governing coalition, the vagueness of the president of the Chamber of Deputies seemed to reflect more the intensity of the internal noise and a sought-following expression of discomfort than that of parliamentary work.
The noises around Scioli and Massa
The figure of Massa as an unexpected guest appears just following he entered the scene Daniel Osvaldo Scioli, the already elected but not yet assumed (this will happen following the President returns from the United States, next Saturday) Minister of Productive Development. It so happens that, with his figure of just half-composer, representing a kind of “pledge of unity” and bringing with him his extensive “management experience”, the still ambassador in Brazil comes to dispute exactly the same position to which he aspires and for which The tigrense is working. Which is not exactly the minister.
So much internal noise reached unexpected places, as the group “Women Ruling”, which brings together first and second line officials from all areas of government. The “Women Governing” were surprised when on Saturday followingnoon they saw that the WhatsApp group in which they share management activities and reflections, suddenly Malena Galmarini “left the Group”, and following her another four “net massistas”, without a word or explanation. Right, right, at the same time that Massa finished confirming that, beyond all her claims and kicks, Scioli was just the replacement for Kulfas.
The regional role
“Alberto is going to say at the Summit what he has been proposing in public: that a dialogue without exclusions is necessary. At the CELAC regional meeting on Education, he already clearly stated that the blockades once morest Cuba and Venezuela are useless, that in this very particular and profoundly unequal context, coming from a pandemic and in the midst of a war that totally changed the scenario, it is impossible think of solutions with the architecture of the cold war, because the war accelerated the crisis of the existing integration formats”, they define from the Government.
His role as president pro tempore of CELAC will weigh in this enunciation, not because he is expected by a “regional chair” in particular to occupy the Summit, but because of the construction he has shown in recent days. He is the one who spoke with Andrés Manuel López Obrador (who ultimately will not attend, his foreign minister will represent Mexico), with Maduro (“Alberto will be the voice of Venezuela,” he was sworn in from Caracas), who received the call from Joe Biden following confirming his participation, with an invitation to a bilateral meeting in Washington in July.
In this context, Fernández will contribute his voice to a Summit that, among other things, raises immigration as a priority issue, but without the presence of the president of a bordering country, the one with the largest migrant community in the United States, and while a new and impressive “migrant caravan” advances like a cry towards that border.
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