The president of Argentina, Javier Mileitraveled this Friday to Río Gallegos (province of Santa Cruz), from where the president plans to travel to the Antarctica this Saturday with the director of the IAEARafael Grossi, to launch an environmental policy program.
On a flight that took off from the Jorge Newbery Airport, in the City of Buenos Aires, shortly after 5:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. GMT), the president Thus he began his first trip away from the capital and the province of the same name. since he assumed the Presidency of the country, on December 10.
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If weather conditions permit, Milei and Grossi will visit the Marambio Joint Antarctic Base together with the Argentine chancellor, Diana Mondino the defense minister, Luis Petri; and that of the Interior, Guillermo Francos.
On the white continent, the Argentine president will participate in the launch of the NUTEC Plastics Initiative, a flagship project of the IAEA to Address the global problem of ocean pollution for that material.
This initiative is a collaboration between the IAEA and the Argentine Antarctic Program which aims to monitor marine pollution due to microplastics on the continent’s coasts, as well as their eventual treatment and reuse.
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The trip to Antarctica took place on Thursday, December 28, when the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency began his visit to Argentina and was received by the leader of La Libertad Avanza (far-right) at the Casa Rosada.
Milei has been highly criticized by environmental organizations, which They accuse him of being a denier of the climate crisis and a detractor of environmental causes.
In fact, the measures related to this matter included in the megabill sent to Parliament last week to obtain broad legislative powers put the protection of forests, glaciers and other sources of natural resources at serious risk, according to environmentalists.
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The Marambio base, founded in 1969, is one of the thirteen – seven of them permanent – that Argentina maintains in Antarctica. It is made up of 160 people in the southern summer months and 75 in the winter.
