“A NEW REGIME”

How to call the measures announced by Fernández on the issue of fishing in the South Atlantic?

Sir Charlattam

After the speech of President Alberto Fernández at the annual opening of the ordinary sessions of the Argentine Congress, each sector interested in its problems was pending and attentive to the presidential announcements and one of them that has nothing to do with the institutional life of a country upset, I take note of the policies that “Casa Rosada” intends to promote in a subject highly sensitive to the commons of Argentines.

The announcement of carrying out control policies on the territorial waters of southern Argentina has raised some concerns at the British embassy in Buenos Aires and the Foreign Office in London but also at the bland Kelpers Islanders.

Fernández's announcement is part of an intolerable reality that has been aggravating in the shadow of inept democratic governments since the end of the 1982 war. The British’s advance in the usufruct and grabbing of the mineral and ichthyol goods of the seabed, the collection of taxes and fishing fees for fruits of the sea surrounding the Falkland Islands, Sandwiches and South Georgia have expanded to almost reach the Patagonian coasts, a fact that has been greatly favored after the 1990 Madrid agreements revitalized to levels unthinkable during the Anglophile government of Mauricio Macri and his political alliance CAMBIEMOS (CHANGE).

We must not forget that it was during that government that one of the most controversial and unresolved incidents occurred as it was the sinking of the submarine “ARA San Juan” and the disappearance of its forty-four crew members. Although London has maintained and closed mutism about this, in Argentina and in various parts of the globe there is an almost certain certainty of the involvement of the Royal Navy and the Chilean Air Navy in this fact but in the current conditions of political, diplomatic and political weakness. Argentina's military can do little to deal with an in-depth investigation into the event.

When Fernandez recalled the situation and framed it as an irrevocable cause, the British ears and their payroll pimps present in the room, swallowed and soon began to perspire through the nerves. The mere idea that an Argentine government takes the determination to carry out proactive policies to consolidate the sovereign rights over the resources of the seabed and the subsoil of the Argentine sea, gives the Kelpers and Britons a sting, who are faced to see who It is left with the usufruct of these resources.

Chinese boat fishing at Atlantic  south 

And is that the current reality of fishing predation in the Argentine seas has caused damage to the Argentine economy that nobody wants to calculate. 

The fishing fleets of several countries, including the Chinese, fish under permits granted, but not recognized by Argentina, by a British administration that controls the islands. In appearances, one of Fernández's announcements is to promote a project that would focus on prosecuting and sanctioning illegal fishing in Argentine jurisdictional waters rather than London and in particular the Kelpers will not accept.

As the saying goes "From saying to deed there is a great stretch", in allusion that Fernández can make very patriotic statements to the ears of his citizens but we must see if he concretizes them in reality. Whether or not your multi-faceted political party towards the Setentist left likes it, there is no possibility of implementing serious state policies without a real muscle (Powerful Armed Forces) that supports its decisions. It is a matter of political realism that cannot be made up with speeches or with nondescript monsergas of characters and sectors completely unaware of the country's geopolitical interests.

With this interior framework, there is little chance of the country leaving the geopolitical well in which it is located. Without self-development, there is no possibility of negotiating and much less defending strategic interests such as the resources that are housed in its seabed and seabed.

If there is a factor that will impede the progress of these types of projects, it is the internal ideology that infects the ranks of its already scattered and obtains political militancy. It is these sectors that under the label of “progressives” confuse their antimiltarism with stupidity putting at the forefront of state affairs, merely short-term issues. This is why (among others) that Washington never took Argentina seriously and because of the continuous (and interested) British diplomatic operations, I ended up betting on Brazil as a reliable partner to manage its backyard.

And it is that, without a naval fleet of tip, Argentina will not be able to protect even less, to implement these projects of sanction to the furtive fishing that literally takes the coffers of the country billions of dollars a year in fishing. At the same time that Argentine maritime emptiness in its extensive coastline and of not taking the political initiative, will be covered by the Brazilian Navy in the north and by the British and Chileans in the south.

It is in this sense that the British and the Americans have little to do to complicate the diplomatic relations of Buenos Aires with Chile and Brazil, countries that in addition to being accustomed to Washington's collaborators are currently governed by heads of state ideologically opposed to the “Casa Rosada” (House Pink).

Within the same Fernández government there is also an insurmountable political crack that expands with each passing day. While several of Cristina's government exponents have returned to state seats, others do not hesitate to show their total aversion to this return. The ambiguous signals given by the president and his officials have further separated the waters between the "pro-Kirchnerists" and the so-called "pure Peronists" who, in addition to being continuous saboteurs of a defense restructuring, have now become the applause of the IMF and Trump's comments. But the internal divergences are deeper. There is even a populist nationalist line that identifies with Buenos Aires Peronism and that, apart from that capitalist ambiguity, has been weaving its own geopolitical contacts, establishing as one of the most outstanding relations with the Russian government.

These latest initiatives, although they are relegated from the official Argentine media, cause stinging in the business sectors and clearly annoy the Anglophile sectors that exist in Argentina and that during the CAMBIEMOS (CHANGE) stage we made close contacts with London and with the Kelpers Islanders especially for development of business and private enterprises that only point to the benefits of some who are marginalized from the public treasury of Buenos Aires.