Nicolas Posse traveled to the United States: he will meet with officials from the Treasury, the IMF and the CIA

Chief of Staff Nicolas Posse, who is also one of President Javier Milei’s most trusted people, left for a whirlwind trip to the United States tonight to meet with a senior Treasury official and IMF Deputy Director Gita Gopinath. He will also meet with the director of the CIA. The official left Ezeiza International Airport on Monday night for Washington, where he will arrive this morning to hold important meetings with the aim of strengthening the bilateral relationship with the United States.Nicolás Posse traveled to the United StatesAccording to the Cabinet chief’s entourage, “the meetings are part of a series of previously scheduled exchanges that have been consolidated since the World Economic Forum in Davos.” The whirlwind trip includes a meeting with high-ranking officials of the Joe Biden administration: the meeting, according to the official agenda of the chief of staff, will be with the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Michael Kaplan, and the Undersecretary for International Affairs, Jay Shambaugh. The chief of staff met with the Biden official last December when the current government had just taken office. At the time, the U.S. administration said after the conclave that the envoy “welcomed the government’s commitment to restoring economic stability.” In addition to the meeting with U.S. officials, Posse is scheduled to visit the offices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to meet with the first deputy managing director of the organization, Gita Gopinath, number two of the Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva. At the end of November, after Milei won the runoff, the two had their first meeting, which was also attended by Economy Minister Luis Caputo.In the last few hours, the agency ordered the postponement of the last review of its current $44 billion loan for two months – from September to November – giving the government more time to implement reforms and negotiate a new program. The Chief of Staff will meet with the head of CIAPosse will be accompanied by the head of the Federal Intelligence Agency, Silvestre Sivori, given that a visit to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is planned. There, the Argentines will be received by the Director of the organization, William J. Burns. According to the Chief of Staff, the purpose of the meeting is to strengthen relations between the two agencies.

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