Milei Sacks Foreign Minister Who Backed UN Resolution Supporting Cuba

Argentinian President Javier Milei has sacked his foreign minister after the country voted in favor of an annual resolution at the U.N. General Assembly calling for the lifting of the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba.
“The new chancellor of the Argentine Republic is Mr. Gerardo Werthein. End,” Adorni wrote.
Mondino was fired hours after Argentina joined 186 nations in voting to end the embargo against Cuba.
Only the United States and Israel voted against the nonbinding resolution, with Moldova abstaining.
Milei’s office later confirmed in a statement that Mondino was dismissed because of the vote at the United Nations.
A 69-year-old career diplomat, Lagorio was only appointed in March and would have cast his vote as directed by Mondino.
Milei, a libertarian and strong supporter of both the United States and Israel, was elected president last year and, since his inauguration in December 2023, has markedly changed his country’s foreign policy.
He has supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over the conflict with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
His stand is in marked contrast with most Latin American countries.
Colombia and Bolivia have severed ties with Israel, and Brazil has withdrawn its ambassador from Tel Aviv.
Last week, Mondino’s office was forced to withdraw a statement it had put out that referred to the “Falklands,” instead of the “Malvinas,” the Argentinian name for the British-controlled archipelago in the South Atlantic over which the two countries fought a war in 1982.
In May, during a visit to China, she was heavily criticized after she said, about the Chinese, “They are all the same,” in a media interview.
The visit had been intended to improve relations with Beijing.
The United States first imposed partial sanctions on Cuba in 1958, after the communist regime then led by Fidel Castro took power.
In February 1962, a year after the failed attack at the Bay of Pigs, then-President John F. Kennedy imposed full economic sanctions on Cuba.
On June 16, 2017, Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum, strengthening the U.S. sanctions on Cuba.
Any U.S. business or individual engaging in trade with those on the list would be in breach of the sanctions, a criminal offense.