Weekly Report - 22 November 2007 (INNS 1741-7422)

President-elect Cristina Fernández honoured her pre-election promise to make Brazil her first port of call after October's elections. Whether she honours her promise to "change" bilateral relations with Brazil for the better by establishing biannual meetings of the two governments with "concrete and quantifiable goals" to replace bi-ministerial reunionismo (meeting for the sake of meeting), is a moot point. "Change is just beginning" was Fernández's election campaign slogan but, with the exception of the appointment of Martí­n Lousteau as her economy minister, it was not in evidence in her cabinet reshuffle [WR-07-45].