Argentina’s President Javier Milei has fired his foreign minister, Diana Mondino, after a controversial United Nations vote. Here’s what happened.
Argentina recently voted to support a UN resolution asking the United States to lift its long-standing economic embargo on Cuba. This embargo, or trade ban, was put in place back in the 1960s to pressure Cuba, which had adopted communist policies, to abandon them. The embargo has continued for decades, and every year, the UN holds a vote to ask the U.S. to end it. This year, 187 countries supported the resolution, with only the U.S. and Israel voting against it. But, while many nations supported Cuba, this vote stirred up a big issue for Argentina.
President Milei has typically aligned closely with the U.S. and Israel. So when Argentina voted in favor of lifting the embargo on Cuba, it marked a sharp departure from the usual foreign policy line under Milei’s administration. Some political analysts think that Mondino, Argentina’s f...
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