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Marcos Pe\u00f1a, head of Argentine president\u00a0Mauricio Macri<\/a>\u2018s cabinet, will travel to Cuba on September 13 in the framework of the second official visit by a current government official. Last year the former chancellor, Susana Malcorra, opened bilateral relations with the Communist dictatorship.<\/p>\n Pe\u00f1a\u2019s visit to the island will last two days. He will be accompanied by the Secretary of Strategic Affairs, Fulvio Pompeo.<\/p>\n Although there is still no confirmed agenda, it is believed that there will be no official meeting with\u00a0Raul Castro<\/a>\u00a0and that the appointments that the Argentine officials have scheduled will be with Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez Parrilla and with Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investments of\u00a0Cuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Argentine government has stressed that the bilateral relationship \u201cshould not have an idealized vision, but mutual benefits, and that is what President Mauricio Macri asks.\u201d<\/p>\n Mauricio Macri\u2019s center-right government has brought a marked change to the foreign policy of his predecessor Cristina Kirchner, who long curried favor with left-wing regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia.<\/p>\n However, at the time of Fidel Castro\u2019s death, the Argentine president, who was concluding his first year in office, highlighted and acknowledged the \u201cunrestricted and permanent support\u201d of the Cuban government over the Falkland Islands conflict with the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n Argentine officials working on the visit assured\u00a0La Naci\u00f3n<\/em>\u00a0newspaper that the idea of the trip is to work on a bilateral relationship of a \u201cpolitical, cultural, and investment\u201d nature, and to deepen the bond between the two countries.<\/p>\n The Communist regime in Cuba has recently seen an increase in its international influence, as Barack Obama opened diplomatic and economic relations with the nation, and the island helped to broker a peace agreement in Colombia.<\/p>\n However, critics note that Raul Castro has stepped up crackdowns on political and social dissent as of late.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0La Nacion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" panampost.com Marcos Pe\u00f1a, head of Argentine president\u00a0Mauricio Macri\u2018s cabinet, will travel to Cuba on September 13 in the framework of the second official visit by a current government official. Last year the former chancellor, Susana Malcorra, opened bilateral relations with the Communist dictatorship. Pe\u00f1a\u2019s visit to the island will last two days. He will be accompanied by the Secretary of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}