This Monday, April 14, the Milei Government receives the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent. The arrival of the American official occurs in a context of deep economic changes both nationally and worldwide. In Argentina, the management of the La Libertad advances A Cerra has just a New agreement with the IMF, which will imply greater adjustments and blows on the living conditions of the working majorities and the poor people. Internationally, the commercial war implemented by Donald Trump, shakes the geopolitical scenario.
Besent, Trump’s official, comes to support that adjustment agenda. This was said in a statement that made public, claiming what the “bold leadership of President Javier Milei” called, as a basis for “relationship between the United States and Argentina [sea] more solid than ever. ”
The United States official arrived in the country with a loaded but brief agenda: meetings with Javier Milei, with Economy Minister Luis Caputo, and with representatives of the business sector. The goal? Reaffirm United States support to Milei’s economic reforms and negotiate strategic issues such as the exploitation of natural resources and the reduction of commercial tariffs.
In the agenda it would also be discussing the conditions for a eventual free trade agreement between the US and Argentina, a project of difficult concretionalso tied to negotiations between our country and the whole of Mercosur.
According to existing versions, it would also be discussed around A special loan from the United States Government to the Argentine State. At the same time, the involvement of US companies in key sectors of the economy, such as Vaca Muerta and lithium, would be in debate. These sectors are key within the framework of the geopolitical dispute between the United States and China.
The visit implies a political support for a government that prepares to deepen the wild adjustment on the living conditions of the working majorities. It is the endorsement of a reactionary project, fully functional to the interests of the great national and international business. There is nothing to celebrate with this arrival of Besent.
On the contrary, the broadest repudiation of this envoy of American imperialism, which comes to try to further subordinate Argentina to Washington designs.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
