Mauricio Macri spoke with Ivanka Trump and received the support of another US envoy. – 09/05/2019

About the end of your trip to Jujuy, Ivanka Trump received a phone call from Mauricio Macri, who hours earlier, from Córdoba, sent a message to the creditors of Argentina, and their allies to the International Monetary Fund, from whom he expects USD 5.4 billion of the stand-by credit, negotiated in 2018. "We expect the IMF disbursement because we have complied with everything, "said Macri. "I am very focused as president in stabilizing the economy again and bringing relief to the Argentines," he added.

The Macri-Ivaka conversation, which was managed by the Secretary of Strategic Affairs, Fulvio Pompeoand the chancellor Jorge Faurie, was not known in its details, but there were other gestures of support of the daughter of Donald Trump to the Argentine ally. In fact, as he told Clarion Faurie, who was in Jujuy with Trump's daughter, John Sullivan, deputy secretary of state of the United States – Mike Pompeo's two – told him that Washington continued to support Argentina, Your ally now. The governor Gerardo Morales also participated in the activities.

The Government needs the IMF to disburse US $ 5.4 billion, but that still has no date, which worries the Government in its plans to compensate with high social measures the strong shot of the dollar and the markets, something that goes in the direction contrary to the ultra austerity plan signed with the Fund. At the same time there are also adverse messages to the program with the IMF of Alberto Fernández and what he will do if he wins the presidency.

Faurie said that it is the Minister of Finance, Hernán Lacunza, who is in charge of the negotiation so that the expected package arrives in Argentina. But he said the Trump administration told him that they will do everything possible to support Argentina. Clarion He knows that Trump and Macri are still talking. They did it on Saturday 24 after the support march in different cities in favor of the president, when he left the balcony of the Casa Rosada. But there were no public statements from Washington.

National government sources said the President He decided to travel to New York next September 24 to give his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. It may be his last intervention as president, or not, depending on the results of the October presidential elections, where the Frente de Todos has a clear advantage for now.

The candidate Fernandez raised on Wednesday a completely different relationship to that of the Macri government with Washington. "Being conditioned to the policies of the United States has made us go back as a country," he said in the Spanish Parliament and said he objected to the Lima Group, in which Argentina is currently active and whose main mission is to put pressure on the Venezuelan regime Nicolás Maduro.

Meanwhile, Ivanka, who became an advisor to his father president, toured allied countries today: Colombia, Argentina and Paraguay.

Ivanka landed directly in Jujuy on Wednesday late at night. This Thursday he met with Argentine women from his agenda focused on the economic empowerment of women. It is part of the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative for Women (W-GDP) of the White House

There he participated in a microfinance class for women entrepreneurs who received microcredits financed by Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC, for its acronym in English), which announced the Approval of funds for 400 million dollars that will be used to "expand and improve the passability of the Corredor Vial C, which connects the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba and Mendoza, also with Chile.

The delegation that visits Jujuy is also integrated in addition to Sullivan; by United States ambassador Edward Prado; by the interim president and executive director of the Private Foreign Investment Corporation (OPIC), David Bohigian and the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Usaid), Mark Green.