2024-07-10 20:37:43
Diana Mondino is busy. The Chancellor must each of the diplomatic problems the President is putting in his path because of nothing. The last thing he did was shoot Luis Arce, the Bolivian bossbelieving it to be a “staged coup” in the neighboring country.
MileI had just escalated a conflict with Brazil. Lula Da Silva asked him to say: “You must apologize to Brazil and to me. He said a lot of nonsense. “I just want to apologize,” he said. But the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, declared that there was nothing to be sad about. Zero diplomacy.
Chaos.
“This statement made by Mr. Milei is not surprising.. “He has conflicts with Spain, Brazil, and Paraguay, he also had changes with Chile,” Arce protested after reading Milei’s tweet. “Actually, I think the conflict that has been shown is not conducive to good neighborliness,” he said.
It did not seem that anyone in the Government was afraid of the new dispute that the President had set up. Indeed, Milei’s criticism of Bolivia was formulated through an official statement from the account of the Office of the President, not from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. who saw from the outside as the conflict escalated. After the President’s statement, Bolivia summoned its ambassador to Argentina, Ramiro Tapia, for consultations to be present at the government headquarters.
With Lula the tension has been maintained since the presidential campaign, when a Milei described it as “communist” and “corrupted”, which he now reiterated. But progress has been made in recent weeks: Argentina’s liberals do not want to cross paths with Brazil, that is why he sent Mondino to the Mercosur summit. “It is very unfortunate politically that a president decides not to meet his partners,” said Gisela Padovan, secretary for Latin America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Brasilia. the fuel of the conflict.
Beyond the fires that Milei creates, and that Mondino tries to put out after him, In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, what is alarming is the lack of horizon. No one knows when or who the President’s next fight will be: it could be with the country’s main gas importer, Bolivia, or its biggest trading partner, Brazil. The liberal does not measure consequences.
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