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Weekly Report - 22 January 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)
ARGENTINA: Cuban visit smacks of megaphone diplomacy
President Cristina Fernández travelled to Havana this week for talks
with her Cuban counterpart Raúl Castro. The visit, the first by an Argentine
head of state since Raúl Alfonsín in 1986, coincided with the inauguration of
Barack Obama as US president on 20 January. As such, it had a symbolic
resonance: it underlined Argentina's commitment to rehabilitate Cuba fully into
the region while pressuring Obama to accelerate the revision of US relations
with Cuba. By adopting this combative diplomacy, Fernández runs the risk of
missing out on the domestic political advantages that reaching out to Obama
would afford.
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