BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s President Javier Milei on Wednesday changed International Affairs Minister Diana Mondino after she voted in favor of lifting the U.S. embargo towards Cuba on the United Nations.
Milei, a libertarian who took workplace in late 2023, is unabashedly pro-United States and has taken a cooler stance towards leftist commerce companions within the area and abroad, together with by taking steps to distance Argentina from Cuba and Venezuela.
Earlier on Wednesday, the U.N. Basic Meeting overwhelmingly known as on the US to finish its decades-long sanctions regime on Cuba, in a non-binding decision opposed solely by the U.S. and Israel.
Milei, who has stated that he desires Argentina to be in keeping with the U.S. and Israel, shared a submit on social media from a decrease home lawmaker praising his authorities for “not supporting nor being an accomplice of dictators.”
Gerardo Werthein, who has been serving as Argentina’s ambassador to the US, will substitute Mondino because the nation’s international minister, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni stated on X.
Mondino, one in every of Milei’s first confirmed cupboard members, has performed a key function in preserving diplomatic relations easy with worldwide companions regardless of incendiary feedback from the president about nations like Brazil and China.
Milei was having lunch when he obtained a name from Werthein inquiring about Argentina’s vote in favor of lifting the embargo on Communist-ruled Cuba, angering the right-wing chief, native information outlet TN reported.
Earlier this 12 months, Argentina’s state vitality firm YPF stated it will not present gasoline to Cuban airline Cubana, prompting the state-run service to close down a route run between Havana and Buenos Aires for almost 4 many years.
Cuba’s international ministry on the time stated Argentine officers cited the U.S. embargo in defending the transfer.
