The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, stated this Friday (23) before the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, that the country returned to the side of democracy and freedom under his mandate.
“Argentina decided to return to the side of the West, to the side of progress, to the side of democracy and, above all, to the side of freedom”, said the libertarian when asked by the press about his message to the United States.
The Argentine president, from the right-wing Freedom Advances party, made these statements when receiving Blinken, who is on an official visit to Argentina for the first time, at the Casa Rosada.
Before the meeting, the Secretary of State took a tour of Plaza de Mayo, an iconic place where mothers and grandmothers of people who disappeared during the Argentine dictatorship have gathered since 1977.
The meeting between Milei and Blinken takes place one day before the Argentine president's trip to Washington to participate in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest annual meeting of the American right, where he will coincide with Donald Trump.
Despite Milei's closeness to the Republican, Democrat Joe Biden's Executive built a close relationship with the new Argentine government in its first two months in office.
Blinken is in Argentina just days after the visit of the head of the State Department for Latin America, Brian Nichols, who praised Milei's “broad effort” to reform the Argentine economy.
The new Casa Rosada government is focused on a package of reforms to deregulate the country's struggling economy and, in foreign policy, has aligned itself with Washington after the years of Kirchnerism.
Milei invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to his inauguration ceremony and recently visited Israel to demonstrate his support for the country in the war, gestures that the United States welcomed.
Also on the meeting's agenda is the situation in Venezuela, after the electoral disqualification of opposition presidential candidate María Corina Machado was confirmed.
Blinken arrived in Buenos Aires after his visit to Brazil, where he met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and participated in the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro. (With EFE Agency)
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