confirmation of President Barack Obama that the seizure of military equipment in Ezeiza has been a "serious incident" will result in greater difficulties in bilateral relations, diplomatic sources said the United States.
"It is now clear publicly that the incident is in a very high level, "said one informant, referring to statements by U.S. President issued yesterday by this newspaper, which called for the return of a suitcase of equipment held by Argentina.
" It is true that President had never spoken publicly about the matter but for the reporter's question. But it could have lowered the tone of the case, and did not, "said another source.
reactions in local political circles were consistent about it, after Obama's initial statements about the material seized in the raid led by Chancellor Timerman .
grows in Washington and the conviction that the plane incident has become a "thorn in the side" in the bilateral relationship parallels some miscalculation of Argentine diplomatic authorities on the impact of what happened.
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"This is nothing but a claim the State Department spokesman. Not even Hillary Clinton will speak on the matter, because we know that we are right", had assured days ago Argentine diplomatic sources in assessing the referral episode plane.
same sources, who spoke on condition of retaining the anonymity, had breakfast yesterday with the uncomfortable news that was not the secretary of state but which President Obama planted treatment as a matter of government's claim for return of material.
However, there are nuances. Democrats in local media the incident spoke firmly, but with a dose of patience. Unlike the case for sources close to the opposition who embodies the Republican Party, where the impatience with the government of Cristina Kirchner is expressed in stronger terms.
"Argentina is taking a series of behaviors that lead to ask, for example, deserves to be in the group of G-20 countries," said former White House counsel for Latin America Daniel Fisk. The former number two at the State Department to the region made the comments at a meeting which sought to determine whether Argentina was moving away from the U.S. to enter the orbit of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
"Argentina has sought a diplomatic storm deliberately," said the document was based on discussion, presented at the Hudson Institute, a think tank close to the Republican Party. Chancellor Timerman was designated as executor of the incident, the orders from a president marked by two reasons.
On the one hand, a defiance of Cristina Kirchner to Obama's decision not to move by Argentina in their first regional tour, and on the other, closer to the Chavez government, which implies that "hostility to Washington "and" adoption of practices of the authoritarian left. "
But specifically, what could lead to further estrangement from Washington? Local media noted that the United States has operated as one of the "best lawyers" of Argentina in their efforts to reach an understanding with the Paris Club debt payment. Similarly, insisted that tends to back and act as a retaining wall to the claims of U.S. investors who claim to coercive measures to "punish" a country that fails to pay its bond debt in default.
The other fact is that, in recent months, Argentina actively collaborated with U.S. diplomacy in the region. "One of the most notable was his speech to the Bolivian government of Evo Morales to avoid declaring a default on its debt," said a local diplomat.
Nobody wants to lose that. But the stone in the shoe has been recognized as such even by President Obama. Democratic leader will be in November with President Kirchner at the summit of G-20 in France. More than one wonders where is here, then, air cargo scandal.
"In the history of contemporary modern diplomacy have never seen a picture like the one we saw, with a chancellor at the airport customs in a small room. One tries to explain to an American and does not understand that joke," said in amazement, the U.S. official Luis Lauredo, Barcak Obama adviser and former president of the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS).
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