Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

and the

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have maintained bilateral relations since the United States formally recognized the

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, the predecessor to Argentina, on January 27, 1823. Relations were severely strained in the era of

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, when Argentina refused to declare war on

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, and became the only Latin American nation not to receive American aid. Relations continued to be difficult when the Perons were in power. Relations were strained in 1982 after the US supported the

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against Argentina. Since 1998, Argentina has been a

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, partly owing to Argentina's assistance to the United States in the

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. Relations have been strained at times over the past few years, especially during the

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administration, but they have improved since President

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came to power in late 2015.

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History

After Argentina became independent from Spanish rule, the United States formally recognized the

, the legal predecessor to Argentina, on January 27, 1823. The bilateral relations have seesawed over the last century and a half between periods of greater cooperation and periods of tension over ideology and finance. There has never been a threat of war. Argentine leaders were disappointed when the

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refused to invoke the

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during instances such as the British establishment of a colony on the

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, or during the

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. In 1833 US Navy shells the

, at the time under Argentine control, in retaliation for the seizing of American ships fishing in Argentine waters. The new constitution of 1853 was based in part on the

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. In 1853, a commercial treaty was concluded between the two nations.

1870–1930

Argentina was closely linked to the

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in the late 19th century; and as such there was minimal contact with the United States. When the United States began promoting the

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, some Argentines were suspicious that it was indeed a device to lure the country into the US economic orbit, but most businessmen responded favorably and bilateral trade grew briskly after the United States and did care of duties on Argentine wool in 1893. Relations soured when Argentina refused to join the Allies in the

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. Argentina had large British and German populations and both countries had made large-scale investments in Argentina. However, as a prosperous neutral it greatly expanded trade with the United States during the war and exported meat, grain and wool to the Allies particularly to Britain, providing generous loans and becoming a net creditor to the Allied side, a policy known as "benevolent neutrality".

1940s

Argentina's policy during the

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was marked by two distinct phases. During the early years of the war, Argentine President Roberto M. Ortiz sought to sell food and wool to Britain. He even proposed to US President Franklin Roosevelt for both countries to join the Allies together as non-belligerents in 1940. However his proposal was snubbed at the time, as Roosevelt was trying to get re-elected. After the

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, US foreign policy worked to unite all of Latin America in a coalition against Germany, but Argentina's neutralist stance had hardened since the resignation of Ortiz who resigned because of poor health. The United States worked to pressure Argentina into the war against the wishes of Britain, which supported Argentine neutrality in an effort to maintain vital provisions of beef and wheat to the Allies that were safe from German

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attacks. Most of the beef and the wheat consumed in Britain came from Argentina. US policy backfired after the military seized power in a coup in 1943. Relations grew worse, prompting the powerful US farm lobby to promote the economic and diplomatic isolation of Argentina and attempt to keep it out of the

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. The policy was reversed when Argentina became the last Latin American nation to declare war on Germany in March 1945. Argentina had hosted a fairly-organized pro-German element before the war that had been controlled by German ambassadors. It operated openly, unlike in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Historians agree that the affinity between Argentina and Germany was greatly exaggerated. The Argentine government remained neutral until the closing weeks of the war and after the war quietly tolerated and in some cases aided the entry of German scientists and some notable war criminals including

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, Adolf Eichmann,

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, and Gerhard Bohne who were fleeing Europe through

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. The voyages of German submarines U-530 and U-977 to Argentina at the end of the war led to legends, apocryphal stories, and

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that they had transported escaping Nazi leaders (such as

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) and/or Nazi gold to South America. Historians have shown there was little gold and probably only a few Nazis, but the myths lived on and helped to sour relations with the United States. When Juan Perón ran for president in 1945 and 1946, US Ambassador

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attacked him with a "Blue Book on Argentina," but public opinion rallied behind Perón. Relations remained tense throughout the Perón years, as he held fascist sympathies, tried to remain neutral in the Cold War and continued to harbor Nazi war criminals. Washington blocked funds from international agencies and restricted trade and investment opportunities. Meanwhile Peron championed Anti-Americanism across Latin America, and financed radical elements in other countries. He did not, however, support the USSR in the Cold War.

1955-1980s

After Perón was ousted in 1955, relations improved dramatically. President

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became the first Argentine president to visit the United States in 1959. Argentina provided support for the American

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, the American invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, and the isolation of Cuba after 1960. By 1976, US human rights groups were denouncing the "

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" waged against leftist dissidents by the repressive military regime in Argentina. They demanded congressional control over foreign aid funding to regimes violating human rights. The US State Department saw Argentina as a bulwark of anticommunism in South America, and in early April 1976, the US Congress approved a request by the

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, written and supported by

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, to grant $50,000,000 in security assistance to the junta. In 1977 and 1978, the United States sold more than $120,000,000 in spare military parts to Argentina, and in 1977, the Department of Defense granted $700,000 to train 217 Argentine military officers. By the mid-1970s, when détente with the Soviets softened anti-communism and President

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highlighted issues of human rights, US activists escalated their attacks and in 1978 secured a congressional cutoff of all US arms transfers to Argentina. Argentina then turned largely to Israel for weapons sales. Relations were strained after the US supported the United Kingdom on the Falklands Wars. American-Argentine relations improved dramatically under the

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, which asserted that the Carter administration had weakened US diplomatic relationships with Cold War allies in Argentina, and it reversed the previous administration's official condemnation of the junta's human rights practices. The re-establishment of diplomatic ties allowed for the

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collaboration with the Argentine intelligence service in arming and training the Nicaraguan Contras against the

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government. The 601 Intelligence Battalion, for example, trained Contras at

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base, in Honduras. Argentina also provided security advisors, intelligence training and some material support to forces in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to suppress local rebel groups as part of a US-sponsored program,

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. Argentine military and intelligence co-operation with the Reagan administration ended in 1982, when Argentina seized the

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of the

in an attempt to quell domestic and economic unrest. The move was condemned by the US, which provided intelligence to the British government in its successful effort to regain control over the islands. Bush and Néstor Kirchner in Mar del Plata 03

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The US has a positive bilateral relationship with Argentina based on many common strategic interests, including

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, counternarcotics, counterterrorism, the fight against human trafficking, and issues of regional stability, as well as the strength of commercial ties. Argentina signed a Letter of Agreement with the

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in 2004, opening the way for enhanced cooperation with the US on counternarcotics issues and enabling the US to begin providing financial assistance to the

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for its counternarcotics efforts. In recognition of its contributions to international security and peacekeeping, the

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designated Argentina as a

in January 1998. The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Argentine Ministry of Defense hold an annual Bilateral Working Group Meeting, alternating between Argentina and Washington, DC. Also, both nations exchange information through alternating annual joint staff talks, military educational exchanges, and operational officer exchange billets. Argentina is a participant in the Three-Plus-One regional mechanism (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and the US), which focuses on the co-ordination of counterterrorism policies in the triborder region. Argentina has endorsed the

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and has implemented the

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and the Trade Transparency Unit, both of which are programs administered by the

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and

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. The Container Security Initiative provides for the selective scanning of

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s to identify

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components, and the Trade Transparency Unit works jointly with Argentine Customs to identify trade-based money laundering. The

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highlighted Argentine legislation passed during 2013 issuing new regulations strengthening suspicious transaction reporting requirements. Currently, the US holds a position of neutrality on the issue of the ownership of the

. It acknowledges the ''de facto'' British control of the Falklands but has no position on the sovereignty claim over the islands.

Trade and investment

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U.S.-Argentine cooperation also includes science and technology initiatives in the fields of space, peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and the environment. In June 2007, the U.S. and Argentina modernized a bilateral civil aviation agreement to update safety and security safeguards and allow a significant increase in flight frequencies between the two countries, which hold excellent potential for increased tourism and business travel. An active media, together with widespread interest in culture and society from the US, make Argentina a receptive environment for the information and cultural exchange work of the U.S. Embassy. The Fulbright scholarship program has more than tripled the annual number of U.S. and Argentine academic grantees since 1994, and the U.S. Embassy is actively working to increase other education exchanges. The stock of U.S. investment in Argentina reached $13.3 billion in 2011, 14% of all foreign direct investment in Argentina at the time and second only to Spain. U.S. investment in Argentina is concentrated in the energy, manufacturing, information technology, and financial sectors. US-based firms comprised nearly 1/3 of the 100 most respected companies in Argentina published annually by Argentina's largest newspaper, '' Clarín''. The United States is Argentina's fourth-largest export market (mainly energy staples, steel, and wine), and third-largest source of imports (mainly industrial supplies such as chemicals and machinery). Argentina itself is a relatively minor trade partner for the United States, its imports from the U.S. of $9.9 billion making up 0.7% of total U.S. exports and its exports to the U.S. of $4.5 billion only 0.2% of U.S. imports; Argentina however is among the few nations with which the United States routinely maintains significant merchandise trade surpluses, and the $5.4 billion surplus with Argentina in 2011 was the tenth-largest for the U.S. in the world. The U.S. earned a further $4.1 billion surplus in

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with Argentina in 2011. A record 690,000 Argentine nationals visited the United States in 2013, making Argentina the 15th largest source of foreign tourism into the U.S. In 2012 Argentina requested the assistance of the World Trade Organization in hosting consultations to discuss the United States ban on Argentinian lemons.

Public opinion

In 2005, Argentina was labelled as "the most anti-American country in the entire Western Hemisphere." Global opinion polls taken in 2006, 2007 and 2012 show that Argentine public opinion had become skeptical of

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at the time. According to the U.S. Global Leadership Report, only 19% of Argentines approved of U.S. foreign policy, the lowest rating for any surveyed country in the Americas. Argentine public opinion of the U.S. and its policies improved during the Obama administration, in 2010 was divided about evenly (42% to 41%) between those who approve or disapprove. As of 2015, Argentine views of the United States' policies are evenly divided with 43% of Argentines having a favorable view and 43% having an unfavorable view.

U.S. Embassy functions

The U.S. Mission in Buenos Aires carries out the traditional diplomatic function of representing the U.S. Government and people in discussions with the Argentine Government, and more generally, in relations with the people of Argentina. The Embassy is focused on increasing people-to-people contacts, and promoting outreach and exchanges on a wide range of issues. Political, economic, and science officers deal directly with the Argentine Government in advancing U.S. interests but are also available to brief U.S. citizens on general conditions in the country. Officers from the U.S. Foreign Service, Foreign Commercial Service, and

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work closely with the hundreds of U.S. companies that do business in Argentina, providing information on Argentine trade and industry regulations and assisting U.S. companies starting or maintaining business ventures in Argentina.

Consular section

The embassy's Consular Section monitors the welfare and whereabouts of more than 20,000 U.S. citizen residents of Argentina and more than 250,000 U.S. tourists each year. Consular personnel also provide US citizens help regarding passports, voting, Social Security, and other services. With the end of Argentine participation in the

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in February 2002, Argentine tourists, students, and those who seek to work in the United States must have nonimmigrant visas. The Consular Section processes non-immigrant visa applications for persons who wish to visit the United States for tourism, studies, temporary work, or other purposes, and immigrant visas for persons who qualify to make the United States a permanent home.

Attachés

Attaches accredited to Argentina from the

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(including the

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and the

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), the Department of Homeland Security (including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection), the

Federal Aviation Administration The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the largest transportation agency of the U.S. government and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the country as well as over surrounding international waters. Its powers include air traffic ...

, and other federal agencies work closely with Argentine counterparts on international law enforcement cooperation, aviation security, and other issues of concern. The

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is represented by the U.S. Military Group and the Defense Attache Office. These organizations ensure close military-to-military contacts, and defense and security cooperation with the armed forces of Argentina.

Principal U.S. Embassy officials

Edward C. Prado was nominated to the post of Ambassador to Argentina by President

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on January 17, 2018. The post had been vacant since the resignation of Noah Mamet a year earlier, during which time Chargé d'Affaires Tom Cooney served as acting ambassador.

Ambassador of Argentina to the United States

Fernando Oris de Roa, an executive with extensive experience in

Argentine agriculture Agriculture is one of the bases of Argentina's economy. Argentine agriculture is relatively capital intensive, today providing about 7% of all employment,

, was appointed Ambassador to the United States by President Mauricio Macri on January 11, 2018. The post had been vacant since the April 3, 2017, resignation of

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over an arms procurement scandal involving a $2 billion request disclosed by the office of Congressman

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but not authorized by the Argentine Congress. Chargé d'Affaires Sergio Pérez Gunella had served as acting ambassador in the interim. After

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took office in December 2019, he designated

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as ambassador to the United States. Argüello's credentials were accepted in Washington, where President

asked Argüello to tell president Fernández that " ecan count with this President" regarding the Argentine debt with the

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. On February 22, 2020, Argüello said that he was working to pave the way for a meeting between the two presidents.

Diplomatic missions

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(

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) *

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(Consulate-General) *

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(Consulate-General) *

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(Consulate-General) *

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(Consulate-General) *

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(Consulate-General) *

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(Consulate-General) *

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(Consulate-General) ;Of United States *

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(Embassy)

References

External links

Argentina: Background and U.S. Relations

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Between Argentina And USA
from Argentina's embassy in Washington
History of Argentina – U.S. Relations
from U.S. State Department

recent reports
''Foreign Relations of the United States''
very large compilation of diplomatic documents with all countries *
hundreds of key documents re Argentine-US relations
**
1952 US estimate of Argentina
{{DEFAULTSORT:Argentina-United States relations Bilateral relations of the United States

Country comparison

History

1870–1930

1940s

1955-1980s

Trade and investment

Public opinion

U.S. Embassy functions

Consular section

Attachés

Principal U.S. Embassy officials

Ambassador of Argentina to the United States

Diplomatic missions

See also

References

Further reading

External links