The former Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, decided that he will stay in Argentina, where he closely follows the link with politics, for now with no intention of thinking regarding candidates but focused on technical advice to different leaders. as he knew Page 12the pupil of the Nobel Joseph Stiglitz spends his days alternating actions between La Plata and the Capital, in the neighborhood of Belgrano, and holds talks with mayors and governors of the PJ with whom he had had a lot of ties during the times of his administration.
The former minister has political ambitions that, a priori, are not linked to the possibility of working for new positions, especially since his departure from power was recent and it was a more than traumatic event for the Front of All. At some point it was speculated that he might go live abroad, but sources from the municipalities that still frequent him say that “he will only travel abroad to teach”. Guzmán is a professor at the University of La Plata and Columbia, in the United States, and had proposals to work abroad that he rejected with the intention of continuing to be linked to the country. In parallel, regarding his figure are the myths of false offers, such as job opportunities in international organizations such as the World Bank.
They admit in the Casa Rosada that Guzmán has not spoken with President Alberto Fernández for a long time, for whom he maintains an important appreciation. The last time they spoke was the day following he resigned from office, on Saturday, July 3. The Thursday before he left office on Twitter, he had asked the President for two things to continue in the ministry, following telling him that he saw himself as being harassed by sectors of Kirchnerism, which hindered him from executing policies. Those two things were the handling of the money table of the Central Bank (BCRA) and expelling Kirchner officials from the area of the Energy Secretariat. This greater demand for power did not have a positive response from the President and the exit was given.
For those curiosities of politics, everything that Guzmán had asked for, the President granted it to the current minister, Sergio Massa. Moreover, the former minister himself in his resignation letter had slipped the relevance of the president giving his successor the sum of the power to be able to manage. That did not happen with her immediate predecessor in office, Silvina Batakis, but it did with the Tigrense, who also obtained political support to adjust public accounts and order the fiscal front.
Even today, close to Cristina Kirchner they point out that the break with the minister was due to the fact that they consider that Guzmán lied regarding the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). They argue that the minister himself would have committed to a restructuring of terms and amounts of the debt that Mauricio Macri contracted with the Fund for a value of 45 billion dollars. In the Government, even today, they deny that Guzmán made that promise, something that he initially stated in two public interviews as something technically impossible according to the Monetary Fund’s debt rules. They do argue that there was a kind of intermediate attempt to compensate for the non-extension of the negotiation through other channels, such as the fight over the DEGS.
