Milei fires his Foreign Minister for voting in favor of ending the embargo on Cuba and begins a purge of diplomats

One day after the return of the Spanish ambassador to Argentina was confirmed, Javier Miley He fired his Foreign Minister (chancellor there) in a sudden manner: Diana Mondino She was fired after the president learned that the country had supported the end of the embargo on Cuba at the United Nations.

“Our country categorically opposes the Cuban dictatorship and will remain firm in promoting a foreign policy that condemns all regimes that perpetuate the violation of human rights and individual freedoms,” said a statement from the Office of the President in this Wednesday night.

In Mondino’s place, the businessman was appointed Gerardo Werthein until now ambassador to the United States, “who will lead the continuity of the transformation in Argentine foreign policy,” the statement added.

The last journalistic interview that Mondino gave before being ejected from the Foreign Ministry was to THE WORLD. The chancellor was proud of the resolution of the crisis with Spain.

“How is such a complex situation resolved? It is resolved with the fact that at no time did I stop having a relationship with the Spanish chancellor,” explained Mondino, who was very grateful for the treatment Jose Manuel Albares In the five months of crisis unleashed by the insults and disqualifications exchanged by Milei and the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez.

“Spain, in fact, gave us a very big hand by collaborating with an evacuation of Argentines in Lebanon. Argentina has carried out three evacuations, and the first was with Spain, something we were publicly grateful for,” Mondino said.

“We already fixed Brazil, we already fixed Colombia and we are fixing Spain. Let’s see, everything is resolved by talking,” added the economist, who during the electoral campaign that brought Milei to the presidency was one of the authorized spokespersons. Once in power, his figure was losing power, with Karina Mileisister of the president and general secretary of the presidency, as one of his biggest detractors.

This Wednesday, Argentina voted in the UN general assembly along with 186 other countries in favor of ending the embargo on Cuba. The only two countries that voted against were the United States and Israel, precisely the two States with which Milei proposes an unconditional alignment.

According to The Nationupon learning of the Argentine vote in New York, Milei asked Mondino for “explanations immediately,” explanations that did not satisfy him.

“If something is clear, it is that we are aligned with the United States and Israel and we vote opposed to them. It is unusual. Insane,” Argentine government sources told The Nation.

In the Chancellery it was explained, in off the recordthat Cuba is a permanent supporter of the Argentine claim for sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands, but everything indicates that the Casa Rosada did not consider those explanations valid.

After Mondino’s dismissal, Milei expressly announced in writing that the next step is a purge in the Argentine diplomatic service: “Argentina is going through a period of profound changes, and this new stage requires that our diplomatic corps reflect in every decision the values ​​of freedom, sovereignty and individual rights that characterize Western democracies”.

“In this sense, The Argentine Republic will defend the aforementioned principles in all the international forums in which it participates and the Executive Branch will initiate an audit of the career staff of the Foreign Ministry, with the objective of identifying promoters of agendas that are enemies of freedom.”