Hedge funds: delegation gets ready to travel
The US Capitol building is pictured at sunset.
By Fermín Koop
Herald Staff
Herald Staff
About 10 meetings will be held in Washington
As the trip that pro-government and opposition legislators are taking to Washington Sunday to support the government’s stance on the case against holdout hedge funds nears, new details were unveiled yesterday of the agenda and the list of legislators who will take part in the three-day exercise.
As the trip that pro-government and opposition legislators are taking to Washington Sunday to support the government’s stance on the case against holdout hedge funds nears, new details were unveiled yesterday of the agenda and the list of legislators who will take part in the three-day exercise.
The delegation, which is meant to show a united front from Argentina as the US Supreme Court gets ready to decide whether to take the landmark case, will be led by Lower House Speaker Julián Domínguez, and will include pro-government lawmakers Gerardo Zamora, Marcelo Fuentes, Roberto Feletti, Carlos Heller, Eric Calcagno, Miguel Pichetto, Ruperto Godoy, José Uñac, Juliana Di Tullio, Guillermo Carmona and Omar Perotti.
For its part, the opposition will be represented by Darío Giustozzi of the Renewal Front, PRO lawmaker Federico Sturzenegger and dissident Peronists Adolfo Rodríguez Saá and Lino Aguilar. Martín Lousteau of Broad Front-UNEN will also travel but he won’t be representing the recently founded party.
“He is going as an economist, not as a member of Broad Front-UNEN. He called me and told me he decided to go but due to his personal interest,” lawmaker Mario Negri, the president of the Radical Party (UCR) caucus in the Lower House, said yesterday. “His decision doesn’t affect our alliance and the important thing is that he signed our document to support the government’s stance on the hedge funds case.”
The agenda, which will be fully disclosed on Sunday, will include about 10 meetings from Monday to Wednesday, sources told the Herald. The Supreme Court will likely make a decision on taking Argentina’s case on Thursday.
On Monday, the delegation will meet Argentina’s lawyers at the firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, followed by meetings with Democratic and Republican lawmakers at the US Capitol on Tuesday. Finally, on Wednesday, they will meet with several multilateral organizations, including the Inter-American Development Bank. So far, there is no meeting scheduled at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Sources told the Herald that the trip was quickly arranged following a meeting between Julián Domínguez and US Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman, who visited Argentina last month. Poneman reportedly suggested that Domínguez organize a trip alongside members of the opposition to present a unified stance to the US officials.
The mission was confirmed a day after the Broad Front-UNEN sent a letter to the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires to express its support for the federal government in the case, and also to ask that the US Supreme Court take the case.
More than 100 British Members of Parliament also signed a resolution supporting Argentina this week in a document drafted by the Jubilee Debt Campaign, a long-standing critic of vulture funds.
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