Wednesday, September 28, 2016 New faces in townPresident Mauricio Macri (right) received credentials from five new ambassadors to Argentina at the Pink House yesterday, including the freshly appointed ambassador from Brazil, Ergio França Danese (left), who was appointed after Michel Temer became the Brazilian president earlier this year following the controversial impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff. The meeting coincided with confirmation that Temer will lead a Brazilian delegation to Buenos Aires in an official visit next Monday. Macri has prioritized improving economic ties with Brazil since his election. His first foreign visit as president-elect was to Brazil, meeting then-president Rousseff, while the Let’s Change (Cambiemos) government was among the first worldwide to acknowledge Temer as the president of Brazil, in stark contrast to other regional states including Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Finnish Ambassador Teemu Tahvana Turunen, French Ambassaor Pierre-Henri Guignard, Czech Ambassador Karel Beran, and Swedish Ambassador Barbro Elm also presented their letters of credence yesterday.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 28, 2016 03:06 UTC