The government will present a claim in Guatemala and try to bail out the sale of Pampa III

In this context, the president of the military aircraft manufacturing plant (FadeA), Antonio Beltramone, will travel to this country to try to reorient the operation.

In statements on the radio, Beltramone said that in a brief communication with the authorities of the Central American nation he had been informed that "It is not that they are repenting, but that they are being asked to correct the process of buying in Guatemala."

The president of FadeA said that he would go "to see how this process could be redirected", while stressing that during the recent purchase of a ship that the Guatemalan Ministry of Defense had transferred to Colombia, the procedure was the same as in Argentina.

"We are surprised and saddened because many people have worked in this long-lasting process," Beltramone said, although he insisted that he "will continue to work for this process to materialize."

The spokesman of the Guatemalan army, Oscar Pérez, he had told reporters that the suspension of the purchase of Argentine aircraft obeyed a recommendation of the public entity responsible for monitoring public transactions, after a controversy over the alleged lack of transparency of the operation.

Beltramone indicated that Guatemala "needs planes" because of the serious problem of drug trafficking, while noting that the planes are "reliable" and their "The terms of sale for the service, the product and the price are in accordance with international standards.

"It's a practical agreement for both countries, it's an agreement between countries, all the procedures have been respected, we have been working since last year with that and we want to understand in depth "the counter-march given by the Guatemalan government, raised

Ten days ago, the presidents Mauricio Macri and Jimmy Morales they had signed the Quinta de Olivos agreement for the acquisition of the two planes by Guatemala, and both had also traveled to El Palomar Air Base to see the aircraft in question.