Cafiero’s plans for the Chancellor: federal approach and Latin American perspective

Nail Chancellor of the “open doors”, substantial support for career diplomats, emphasis on commercial promotion platform with a more federalist look and a Argentina’s foreign policy with a strong focus on Latin America.

The new chancellor Santiago Cafeiero In recent days, he launched all these orientations during the talks he had with the diplomats of the San Martin Palace according to the new direction to seek to give to foreign policy of the government under the mandate of Alberto Fernndez

“We must promote the diplomatic corps and train it to promote new talents and assets, such as the knowledge economy, for their export,” he said. The chronicler a close friend of Cafiero who pointed out the central idea of ​​the new minister: “encourage an open-door chancellery.” The idea contrasts markedly with the closed pattern, of isolation, surrounded by a few officials from the diplomatic corps and riddled with conceptual errors that the former foreign minister had until recently. Felipe Sol.

On the contrary, Cafiero wants to give a more professional emphasis to foreign policy. Its work team will be led by Cecilia Todesca, Vice-Chancellor Pablo Tettamanti and Secretary of Cult Guillermo Oliveri. The rest of the grid will be occupied by career diplomats.

a political fact which marked the new direction that Cafiero wants to give to the Chancellor unlike the controversial Sun is that the first public working meeting took place with the unicorn and SME sector executives technology. Javier Alcalde and Juan Pablo De Santis, from Ual; Brenda Puig and Matas Fernndez Daz, from Free market; Nstor Nocetti and Vernica Gimnez, from Globant; and Pablo Fiuza, from Q services and president of IT polo shirt of the city of Buenos Aires.

During this meeting, Cafiero and businessmen agreed on the need to promote the knowledge economy, a sector with great potential both in the creation of value and jobs as well as in the capacity to export and he owns. At the same time, they agreed generate training for all diplomats on the qualities of the sector to accelerate the presence of SMEs and companies in the world.

At the same time, the Minister of Foreign Affairs transmitted to businessmen the idea of “to provide the Chancellor and her entire network of embassies around the world, promote more opportunities that generate real employment opportunities and open up new markets for companies in the sector “and thus strengthen Argentina’s profile as an exporter of knowledge.

This diagram is based on a motto that Cafiero has used since its first day at Palacio San Martín: “Every ambassador, every ambassador, will answer for commercial success. Foreign exchange is an objective of popular public policy. We need more and more foreign currency. to reduce Argentina’s external vulnerability, ”he told them.

To this end, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will deepen its trade and investment policy. Thus, the ministerial decree is that each embassy, ​​each consulate, must open the channel for a new product each month made with Argentinian work.

In this sense, it is planned to deploy more trade missions, anchored in regional economies and SMEs, in alliance with all the governors. “We must aim for a very federal Chancellery”said a close friend of Cafiero. In this way, the intention of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs is to open more markets and stimulate more Argentine products in the world.

A senior official who has known the new Chancellor for many years translated the spirit of the new leadership that will take place at the Palacio San Martín: Cafiero will have a policy of “open office”. This is quite a change in a ministry that until now has been run by Sol in a tight way and with little interaction with the provinces or with other ministries.

The contrast sought by Cafiero de la Cancillera de Sol does not end there. The new minister is also seeking to deepen the mechanism of multilateral forums such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Celac, where Argentina must preside. “Relations with South America and with Latin America are inalienable”Cafiero told his relatives.

At relationship with Mercosur the intention of the new chancellor is to fulfill a mandate of Alberto Fernndez: to preserve “at all costs” this common space. An official who accompanies Cafiero at this stage has revealed The chronicler that the idea is to do everything possible to reach agreements with Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay which “are not binding on the industry of any of the four countries”.

Cafiero believes that the industrialists of Brazil and Argentina have a lot in common and that the foreign ministers should take up this basis of agreement. But there are no clues yet on what the new foreign minister will face with Uruguay’s position to move forward on free trade agreements with other countries outside of Mercosur. a fact that triggered a strong disagreement between Alberto Fernández and his Uruguayan counterpart Luis Lacalle Pou.

In relation to the United States, China or the European Union, Cafiero’s idea is to follow the parameters outlined by Alberto Fernndez: that is to say to seek the “balance of diplomacy” with mature links with all the weight blocks of the world.

With Washington, he already had a challenge this week. The Foreign Minister Cafiero has decided to appeal the decision of the United States International Court of Commerce which was issued against the possibility of opening the Argentine biodiesel market in the United States. But in the government, they do not see it as a declaration of war against the administration of Joe Biden, they have a good finish and share many values ​​in common.