Pedro Sánchez arrives in Buenos Aires with millionaire investments under his arm

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro, Sánchez will land on Tuesday at Argentina for a state visit that he intends to translate as the kick-off for the implementation of the plan which will devote 4,500 million euros to strengthening Spanish economic activity in Latin America.

“A plan that places Argentina among the priority countries,” Sánchez told President Alberto Fernández less than a month ago in Madrid, when he welcomed the Argentine on his European tour of friendly countries that can give support for the renegotiation of Creole debt with the IMF and the Paris Club.

Two and a half years after his last visit – it was in December 2018 to participate in the G20 – Pedro Sánchez returns to Argentina, third destination for Spanish exports throughout Latin America.

From the entourage close to the entourage who will go to Buenos Aires with him, they confessed to having Bugle that the places to accompany the president reserved for Spanish businessmen do not exceed ten.

Among those who will board the presidential plane will be representatives of the Puentes group and Indra, the multinational headquartered in Madrid that usually processes election data in Argentina.

“Travel with new investors. And there will even be a hidden investment, which will not be announced because it requires tendering processes, but which will be produced, ”they confide.

Investments and expectations

More than 300 Spanish companies have a foothold in our country. And for Argentina, Spain represents the second largest investor in the world.

“It is the most important foreign and economic policy event for the Argentine government throughout the year, let alone the entire administration,” he said. Bugle Federico Polak, the former spokesperson for Raúl Alfonsín who, from Madrid, works as a special representative for the promotion of businesses in Spain.

“He only visits Argentina in South America. From there he went to Costa Rica. This is a very relevant fact, ”said Polak.

Argentine Ambassador to Spain Ricardo Alfonsín traveled to Buenos Aires on Friday where he will accompany the Spanish President, whose The official agenda will begin on Wednesday June 9 at Casa Rosada.

You will be received by President Alberto Fernández, with whom you will cross San Telmo to the National Historical Museum, where in 1536 Pedro de Mendoza founded Buenos Aires.

There he will meet Spanish and Argentinian businessmen.

Visit of ESMA and other museums

Then there will be a bilateral meeting between the two presidents, with signing of agreements, and Wednesday afternoon, Sánchez will meet, at the Immigration Museum, representatives of the Spanish community in Argentina, the largest among those who live outside of Spain.

Its official agenda will end with a visit to the School of Marine Mechanics (ESMA), now headquarters of the Museum of Memory. Then you will leave for Costa Rica.

Sánchez arrives in Buenos Aires looking for a breath of fresh air. He has just turned three years old at the Palacio de la Moncloa, to which he arrived due to a motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, and he is not living his best moment despite having accelerated the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus and already having ten million Spaniards with the complete vaccination schedule.

Facing the complicated house

The president of the Spanish government aspires to obtain group immunity during the European summer, that is to say between July and August.

Inside, the relief Sánchez dreamed of having with the departure of the PSOE-Podemos coalition government of vice-president and former United Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias never came and his party’s precarious result – the PSOE – in the early elections May in Madrid, where the PP of the current regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, won by a landslide, weakened its governmental image.

The management of Sánchez also lives days of overwhelm in the face of opposition criticism and various sectors of Spanish society through the pardons possible that the president of the government is said to be about to grant to Catalan independence politicians jailed and convicted for organizing the referendum on illegal self-determination and the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia in 2017.

Added to this is the diplomatic crisis with Morocco, a neighboring country which furious at the reception that Spain has given to the leader of the Polisario Front which disputes with the Moroccans the domination of Western Sahara.

Without doing anything to prevent it, Rabat allowed ten thousand people to cross its border illegally in 48 hours to Ceuta and Melilla, two autonomous Spanish cities on the African continent.

The leader of the Polisario Front and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Brahim Gali, 73, had entered intensive care in a hospital in Logroño from Algeria. He had tested positive for Covid and had suffered from digestive cancer for years.

The Spanish Foreign Ministry was quick to justify the gesture on “strictly humanitarian grounds so that he could receive health care”.

But Morocco has reiterated its ambassador in Madrid and, despite the fact that Gali has already left Spain, he promises retaliation.

Before that blurred domestic scenePedro Sánchez travels to Argentina and Costa Rica with one hope: that, perhaps across the ocean, he will be seen arriving as a bearer of good news.

Madrid, correspondent

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