Karina Milei received U.S. ambassador Peter Lamelas on Wednesday at the Casa Rosada, with Heidi Gómez Rápalo. It was the day after Lamelas, at the energy forum in Neuquén, spoke of nearly $20 billion from U.S. agencies by the end of 2027. The executive communiqué: bilateral relations and investment. It is a meeting. It is not a signed package. The money has not been transferred.

Clarín: “We are putting the money on the table. We believe in the path Argentina is taking.” The sentence is from Monday’s Vaca Muerta forum, not Wednesday’s receipt. In August, at AmCham, the same ambassador had spoken of Huawei and of data. China’s embassy answered with a “Cold War mentality.” Foreign minister Pablo Quirno tried to close the gap. Those are old files. Wednesday is a reception at Balcarce 50, while Congress held a session that mattered to the government. The president is in Spain. Karina did not go with him.

The executive: they discussed the relationship, U.S. firms’ development projects and the political and economic setting. That is all. In the coming hours, Clarín says, Christopher Landau and Juan Pablo Segura are due. A travel notice. It is not Wednesday’s signature. In November, J.D. Vance is talked about. A calendar, not a transfer.

La Nación quotes the Casa Rosada: the secretary-general and the ambassador reviewed the bilateral relationship, U.S. firms’ development and investment projects, and the political and economic setting. The same short text. Heidi Gómez Rápalo accompanied him, according to Clarín. Presence, not a signing.

The $20 billion figure is the ambassador’s projection through 2027. It is not a contract read at the Casa Rosada. Nor Monday’s EMAE. Nor Canada’s industrial package. A reception. A short communiqué.

Source consulted: Karina Milei received the United States ambassador — Clarín.

Image: Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires, 9 February 2013, Nathália Buzetto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The façade, not Wednesday’s signature.

Sources consulted: Karina Milei received the United States ambassador — La Nación.