Monday, January 4, 2016

Obama ‘intends to visit Argentina’, according to NYT

In a boost to President Mauricio Macri’s ambition to improve strained relations between Argentina and the United States, it seems increasingly likely that US President Barack Obama will visit Argentina in his final year in office, according to a report published in the New York Times recently.

The article, which referenced sources from within the Obama administration, said that Obama — who leaves office later this year after two consecutive terms in in the White House — could make as many as two presidential visits to Latin America in 2016, and that Argentina is likely to be on the list of host nations.

The New York Times reported that “Mr. Obama intends to visit Argentina, where the recent election of President Mauricio Macri promises far better relations between the two Western powers.”

If the outgoing President were to visit Argentina, it would mark the first time a US president has set foot on Argentine soil since George W. Bush in 2005, who attended the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata during the administration of then-president Néstor Kirchner.