USA: who is at the head of the Southern Command arrived in Argentina

In the middle of negotiations with him International Monetary Fund (IMF), and after the phone conversation the Chancellor had last week Felipe Solá with the Secretary of State of the United States Government, Antony Blinken, the head of the southern command, Admiral Craig S. Faller, has arrived in Argentina. Your visit is part of a regional trip, which has planned the visit of the City of Buenos Aires and Ushuaia.

the Admiral Faller is responsible for all Department of Defense security cooperation in the 45 countries and territories of Central and South America and the Caribbean Sea.

As the United States Embassy clarified in a statement, Faller will make humanitarian donations on behalf of that country’s Defense Department “to support Argentina in its joint efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.”

President Joe Biden’s envoy arrived in Argentina and was received by the Chargée d’Affaires of the Embassy of the United States in the country, Mary Kay Carlson.

Faller heads Southern Command, one of the 10 United States’ unified combat commands from which military operations with Central America, South America and the Caribbean are overseen.

With extensive experience at sea, Faller has served as an officer in the Reactor Electrical Division, an Electrical Officer and Reactor Training Assistant. Biden’s envoy has participated in operations in the Middle East, such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is not Faller’s first visit to Argentina, as in 2019 he visited the country and met the former Minister of Defense under the government of Mauricio Macri, Oscar Aguad, on issues related to cyber defense, at the drug trafficking, organized crime, among others.

After his visit to Uruguay, the visit of Faller, who will meet with Defense Minister Agustín Rossi tomorrow, is of particular importance after the talks that Foreign Minister Solá had with Blinken. Throughout the telephone call, in addition to reviewing the agenda items relating to climate and human rights issues, which would focus on Venezuela, they referred to a possible visit by the President in the USA.

THE NATION