Gerardo Werthein, brand new Chancellor of the libertarian administrationwas going to have his debut as an Argentine representative in a audience in the Vatican which will take place next Monday to remember the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Argentina and Chile. However, eventually the official will be absent. The mistake is attributed to the tensions that were generated between Javier Milei and the president of Chile, Gabriel Boricduring the summit of the G20 carried out in Brazil.
On the part of the Government, according to the newspaper La Nación, the official justification for the failure was “scheduling problems.” Werthein’s decision generated surprise in the Vatican because the hearing will be chaired by the Pope Francis and the Chilean Foreign Minister, Alberto van Klaveren, He had already confirmed his presence.
Gerardo Werthein will not travel to the Vatican
According to the media, Milei’s government informed the Secretariat of State of the Holy See that Werthein will not be able to be present at the ceremony that will take place in the Sala Regia of the Vatican. Despite citing “scheduling problems,” the absence is influenced by the tense intersection that, as it turned out, they had Boric and the libertarian leader during the last G20 summit.
In detail, the Vatican will commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Argentina and Chile, which was the result of the mediation of John Paul II (Supreme Pontiff from 1978 to 2005) in the midst of a strong dispute between the two countries over the Beagle conflict. The agreement took place on November 29, 1984 and avoided what could have been a war between both States.
On behalf of Chile, the Chancellor will be present van Klaveren. The news was received with surprise in the Secretariat of State of the Holy See since it will make the commemoration homogeneous due to the disparity in representation between the two delegations.
The crossing of Javier Milei with Gustavo Petro at the G20
Milei’s participation in the G20 leaders’ summit seems not to have been without strong debates. Added to the conflict with Boric are the statements of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrowho declared that he starred in a intense discussion with the Argentine in Brazil.
“Joint work. This was the issue with which I fought (sic) with Milei verbally at the meeting of the largest and most powerful of the G20 that does not appear anywhere on world television communication, nor in Colombia,” Petro detailed last Thursday during an official event. .
Milei and Petro fight
The Colombian president also denounced that the Argentine delegation did not want to share the record of what happened: “I published my intervention and it has to do with this economic and political precept that humanity only advances by helping itself,” he said. “The Argentine delegation, to which they delivered the videos of their intervention, He hid it, he did not publish it. They didn’t like something about what happened there.”Petro later added.
Regarding the ideas that Milei defended at the summit, the president was blunt: “It is not disruptive. It is an anachronistic discourse to think that the progress of human beings starts from a competition of individuals who, like isolated atoms, try to trip up others in order to progress.”
“Then they kill each other among the nations believing that this is progress. Humanity has never been able to stay on the planet after killing itselfbut from helping herself,” added the Colombian.
But the Colombian went one step further: Petro accused the Argentine president of representing a “new fascism.” On this topic, he added: “The extreme right, call them. I call them new type fascisms, they are new type fascisms. “The Italian or German or Spanish fascism of the mid-20th century was not free trade, it was not free market, it was protectionist,”
“Milei is free market, it is the speech they always make; Trump is a protectionist, so there is a diversity in the terms that means that you cannot equalize because history is not the same, in time, circumstances that happened in the mid-20th century to those of today,” he compared.
Finally, Petro concluded: “But if there is something that equates, fascism was also defined by the violent elimination of difference and that is where the common point is with today, today many want to eliminate the difference and they want to eliminate the difference because it scares them, the Nazis also came to power.”
The meeting at the G20 between both heads of state is not the first episode of tension they have experienced. In March, the Colombian government ordered the expulsion of diplomats from the Argentine Embassy in Bogotáin response to Milei’s repeated insults to Petro, whom he called “terrorist killer”.
Source: Ambito
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