Axel Kicillof in Washington: "Nobody can want a fault"

"Nobody can want a fault, what happens is that The problem lies in the conditions of the economy and what will the government do from now until December?"He said this morning Axel Kicillof a Infobae and other Argentine media in Washington, moments before exposing to the Wilson Center. It was his only reference to the great fear that haunts Argentina.

"We have fulfilled all our commitments, we have never had the opportunity not to respect them", he pointed out in another part of the interview.

The former Minister of the Economy of Cristina Kirchner He was careful. He did not confirm the nominations nor anticipated what Kirchnerism would do if he returned to power, but claimed "responsibility" from the current government.

"They have rudder, they have extremely mismanaged, they have been very irresponsible," he said. "We do not know where will Argentina be in six or seven months"he added, "The present government has the responsibility to leave the country in conditions that are not urgent, there is already an urgency in many ways and hopefully there will be no money because, for any government, starting in difficult conditions is complicated ".

Kicillof also blamed the current situation before the International Monetary Fund, which "must ensure that Argentina does not reach this situation". The Macri government, also affirmed, "promised the revolution of joy and it is the revolution of sadness".

Kicillof has not advanced one step further than his political leader. In the presentation of your book, Sincerely, Cristina Kirchner did not give clear clues about her candidacy for the presidency last night and today in the US capital, nor the MP for Kirchner, possible rival of the Maria Eugenia Vidal in the province of Buenos Aires. But he left definitions that feel a lot like a campaign.

According to Kicillof, "the applications and programs are not defined today." He pointed out that they were in a phase of political construction of a vast space to which they are all invited, from leftist sectors to the Peronists today engaged in the federal alternative.

Kicillof arrived yesterday in the North American capital. Previously, he had traveled through Mexico City, where he had an agenda full of meetings with officials of the president. Andrés Manuel López Obrador and with the legislators. In addition, he offered a lecture at UNAM during which he closely defended popular governments in Latin America and criticized the "new conservative wave" that is advancing in the region. Neoliberalism, said the former Minister of Economy, "has an anachronistic and outdated set of measures that inevitably leads to failure."

Washington did not come back from Kirchner's defeat at the end of 2015. He has now invited to give a lecture at the Wilson Center, under the title "Present and future of the Argentine economy". He came in almost confirmed governor of Buenos Aires but mostly as the economic reference of former President Kirchner, probably Macri's opponent in October.

The call has raised high expectations in this city, home to the IMF, the World Bank and other multilateral organizations. The economic difficulties in Argentina and the proximity of an electoral process with an uncertain end are followed in Washington with great interest and concern.

The invitation was part of a cycle organized over the last year by the Wilson Center's Argentina Project, an initiative led by Benjamin Gedan. Before Kicillof, figures like Sergio Mbada, Alfredo Cornejo and José Luis Espert, among others. Each one of them offered his point of view on national news to businessmen, investors, academics and interested in Argentina in general.

Before 300 people fill the Wilson Center auditorium, the former minister drew after the interview with Infobae a critical diagnosis of change management. He used a more academic tone to review the measures taken by Macri, a part of "An economic program that, throughout our history, has always given the result that gives"This includes, among other things, the devaluation of the currency, higher rates and the dollarization of service charges.

"Macri thought that an export boom and a flood of investments would happen and that it would not happen," said the former minister. "He spent a year and a half blaming the previous government, then the international situation, and now it's up to the government to come," he added. "There are still seven months left, it is time to find solutions, the manager being Mauricio Macrihe insisted several times.

In another section, he claimed that Cambiemos had committed "an industricide" in the past three and a half years. "It was a disaster in terms of production and wages," he said.