Today Alberto Fernández’s order was sent from Biden: Please release the vaccines !!

For Argentine diplomacy, the Colombian González’s only visit is positive. Special Assistant to President John Biden and Senior Director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere visits our country, Uruguay and his home country, Colombia.

This is an “open agenda” meeting, but some of the topics that will be put on the table are known in advance. In order to Alberto Fernandez US support for the IMF board to support debt renegotiation on a sustainable basis is essential. González won’t need to be reminded that Trump asked Maurice Claver Carone to force the biggest loan in the organization’s history to prevent Peronism from winning and Mauricio Macri from being reelected.

Another of the Head of State’s priorities will be to ask González to convey to his government the need for the release of vaccines for the region. Pfizer has conducted and continues to conduct clinical trials of vaccines against Covid-19 in public hospitals and Argentinian volunteers but they did not agree to sell. Another point on this issue will be the doses of AstraZeneca blocked in the political decision of the United States.

In a few hours we will know more about the meeting that Fernández will be leading at the Olivos Residence. Whether it is in person depends on the presidential medical unit granting discharge after the Covid contagion the president has experienced.

On the side of the North American delegation, the Colombian González will be accompanied by Julie Chung, Acting Under-Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Department of State and Chargé d’affaires at the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires, MaryKay Carlson.

González, who has just dealt with immigration issues with Mexico and the situation in Guatemala, of Argentina would like to know more about the thinking of the government and its relations with China. They will also make known the concern for human rights (Venezuela) and the claims of North American companies nucleated to AMCHAM are not excluded.

As Biden revealed to Fernández in his phone call, “one at a time”.