Re: [Fwd: On the Kraft/Terrabusi conflict] (quickly translated)
Greg McDonald <sabocat59 <at> gmail.com>
2009-10-01 02:15:12 GMT
Discomfort, surprise, unease, and confusion. The public call of the
United States for the national and provincial authorities to reach an
"appropriate solution" to the situation of the Kraft Foods Company,
with its base of north american capital, has sounded an alarm to the
government of Cristina Kirchner and has thrown a blanket of doubt onto
the future of serpentine, bilateral relations with Washington.
One day after this diplomatic call was put out by the administration
of Barack Obama, and in an atmosphere of social tension--with workers'
marches in distinct points of the country and with the conflict still
unresolved--the Pink House abruptly suspended yesterday a scheduled
meeting between the Head of the Cabinet, Anibal Fernandez, and the
North American Ambassador to Buenos Aires, Vilma Socorro Martinez.
The meeting was scheduled for 11 o'clock yesterday, according to
Fernandez' office, and had been arranged between the parties ten days
before with the objective of opening a channel for dialogue between
the embassy and one of the principal cabinet ministers. But at 9:30 it
was cancelled.
The official explanation of the Government was that the head of the
Cabinet received a call from President Kirchner, and was forced to
modify his schedule to go to the residence in Olivos. The peculiar
part of this case is that the minister shares an office with the Head
of State, and literally works side by side with the President. "This
has no relation to the Kraft case", was the first statement given by
ministry spokespersons.
Meanwhile, in the north american embassy there reigned the usual
prudence with respect to diplomatic ruptures. "The embassy does not
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