The new Joe Biden government has already tried itOr his second annoyance with the Argentine government in his early days in office. The first was the Twitter used by the State Department Pretend to salute the Democratic President’s inauguration with a warning (“Argentina also hopes not to bet on the disintegration of our countries as in the previous stage”), Breaking the simplest canons of diplomacy.
The second happened this weekend, when it was confirmedThe United States Coast Guard’s USCG Cutter Stone will not finally call an Argentine port during its maiden voyage to the Southern Cone with the aim of strengthening regional maritime cooperation to combat illegal fishing in the waters of the South Atlantic.
Last Friday, the US embassy in Buenos Aires stated that “a comprehensive assessment of the conditions found logistical challenges preventing the ship from berthing in the port of Mar del Plata,” reflecting that range that was announced last December. The tour included stops in Brazil, Uruguay and Guyana.
But behind that brief official information, as he learned Infobae Hiding from sources in Washington a Malaise in the Pentagon – that other major offices in the US capital have been informed before He showed little willingness on the part of the Argentine government to carry out the mission.
It is that the USCG Cutter Stone is the newest and largest ship in the United States Coast Guard and this was its first mission to the southern seas to cooperate in It is an issue of great concern to countries in the region, such as Illegal fishing crawled in its waters by fleets from different countries, especially China.
The USCGC Stone, from the United States, is underway on its first patrol in the waters of the South Atlantic
In the usual framework of cooperation on national security issues, the US authorities have coordinated the ship’s calls in various countries, which include facilitating procedures, exchanging information and other initiatives of mutual friendship.
But from the beginning This was not the case with the Argentine Foreign Ministry, according to sources in Washington. The San Martin Palace delayed the response that was waiting in the American capital before leaving the expedition, and finally hinted at the possibility of using the port of Mar del Plata. The United States immediately warned that the port of Mar del Plata is due to its historical dredging problems It didn’t have enough safety draft to dock a USCG Cutter Stone size ship. Therefore, they requested to do so in the port of Buenos Aires.
But In Buenos Aires, the answer was no and they insisted that the only possibility was Mar del Plata, as they already knew it would be impossible.
The stop had to be aborted and the last port in South America for the mission was Montevideo.
In Washington, impudence was treated as an “A major crime”, As confirmed by the sources Infobae. “It seemed like a good gesture with his usual allies and the harshest sectors of the Quraish doctrine, as if there was a fear of showing a picture of a ship carrying the flag of the United States anchored in the port a few blocks from Casa Rosada.”
In the new democratic administration They cannot understand how, on the one hand, the Alberto Fernandez government is asking the White House to cooperate in negotiations with the IMF and in a personal meeting with the new president, while simultaneously sending these hostile messages. A double game that Donald Trump has also suffered and is so common in Argentine foreign policy that Joe Biden should now seem to get used to.
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The US Coast Guard patrolling the South Atlantic will not finally stop at Argentina
