Héctor Timerman Appointed to be Argentina’s Foreign Minister upon Jorge Taiana Stepping Down from Office

● Timerman’s portfolio to be strengthened by his special ties to Kirchners.
● Timerman brings rare gifts of strength of character and intellectual preeminence to his new job.

Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana resigned from his position several days ago after allegedly having a dispute with the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández Kirchner. The disagreement was largely centered, not so much on the way that foreign policy was being conducted by Buenos Aires, but particularly in reference to Argentina’s role in the “pulp-mill crisis.”

In the 1970s, at a meeting of hemispheric foreign ministers in Mexico City, Henry Kissinger, who was in attendance at the gathering, offered the random observation that of all of the chancellors who were in attendance, the most brilliant of them all was Jamaica’s Dudley Thompson. If asked the same question today, his candidate might very well have to be Héctor Timerman, who has just been selected as Argentina’s new foreign minister and is one of his country’s most peerless, wise figures and the forceful protagonist of a dynamic democratic regional policy.

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This analysis was prepared by COHA Research Associate Azul Mertnoff