Javier Mille expects Argentina to turn to America by visiting the White House

Argentina’s President-elect Javier Millay explained his economic plan to US National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan in a nearly hour-long meeting in the White House’s Eisenhower Administration Building on Tuesday. According to the inaugural president, he also presented senior U.S. officials with Argentina’s “new structure” among “nations that respect freedom.” The meeting was also attended by Juan Gonzalez, Advisor to President Joe Biden for Latin America, and Brian Nichols, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

In a message on social networks, accompanied by a photo with her group of advisers who attended the meeting, Ultra Miley described the event as “a great meeting”. “We talked about the economic and social situation in Argentina at the moment,” he said in brief statements after leaving the presidential residence in Washington and shortly before embarking on a flight back to Buenos Aires.

The budding president was accompanied by his sister and right-hand woman, Carina Miley; future Commander-in-Chief Nicholas Posse; businessman Gerardo Werthein, a personal friend of Bill Clinton and rumored to be the next Argentine ambassador to Washington; Luis Caputo, former Macrista finance secretary and potential economy minister in the new cabinet, and communications strategist Santiago Caputo. Mark Stanley, the US ambassador to Buenos Aires, was also present.

A statement from the president-elect’s office indicated that Miley “expressed during the meeting his vision of an international geopolitical agenda aligned with the West and the defense of the values ​​of freedom.” For his part, Sullivan “expressed the willingness of the United States to cooperate in the transition of the incoming Argentine government in the challenging political, economic and social situation that the country is going through,” according to the Argentine version. Meeting.

Initially, the winner of Argentina’s election, after defeating Peronist Sergio Massa ten days earlier, was scheduled to meet with officials from the International Monetary Fund during a visit to Washington, although in the end only his economic advisers attended. That meeting. Milei had already held a meeting via video conference with IMF director Kristalina Georgieva last Friday. Argentina received a $44 billion loan from the organization in 2018, but has been unable to make timely repayments even after renegotiating the terms.

Before the meeting, the White House had already announced its intention to ask the leader of La Libertad Avanza what his economic and political government plan would be. “Argentina is a dynamic partner on many issues on this continent. We look forward to hearing the president-elect’s ideas and seeing where he wants to go on policy issues, and we’ll make sure we keep the lines of communication open,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby confirmed Monday’s meeting.

While in New York, Miley had lunch with Democratic Senator Chris Dodd and former US President Bill Clinton. His first act in the Big Apple was to visit the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the “Lubavitch Rebbe.” It is a holy site for Judaism, where Miley had previously visited to seek a blessing for his election as Argentina’s president.

The visit to Washington and New York is the first since his election victory as Argentina’s president, and provides a clear indication of what the new government’s foreign policy priorities will be. Throughout his campaign, Miley has emphasized that his main allies are the United States and Israel. He has also vowed to distance himself from China, his country’s main trading partner, with which Alberto Fernandez’s government maintains good relations. Among other things, he has ruled out the possibility of the Southern Cone countries joining the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which was his predecessor.

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