This week, the Minister of Defense Luis Petri went through the Pentagon to advance with the purchase of armored vehicles of a stricker for the army of the Argentine army. During a meeting with the secretary of Pete Highs, there were not only jokes about the role of Argentina in the Persian Gulf and US assistance in the war for independence and campaign in the desert half a century later; The geopolitical contract was also consolidated. “We are very committed to the struggle that the United States made against international terrorism,” Petri said in support of the operation on June 21 against Iranian nuclear institutions, which he called the “world world”.
On the other hand, Hegset took the opportunity to warn that China represents the “security task” for Argentina and the region. The message was clear: it was a strategic bilateral, which confirmed the Argentine alignment with Washington. In the government, they celebrated that Petri took only four months to achieve this case. “The only one who expected was the Minister of Peru because he buys more than 20 combat aircraft,” official sources explained. In addition to the meeting itself, the trip became specific obligations: promotion in military financing, acquiring drones and more joint training.
At this stage, there is no doubt that the government of Javier Miley puts the United States and Western Powers of NATO as priority partners in the head of defense. In just a year and a half, Argentina returned positions in the southern command, which were deactivated by previous efforts. Today, the Air Force again has connections, the army, the military fleet and the joint state, which are formulated with the American scheme for the deployment of military deployment in the region.
The next publication of the Directive on National Defense Policy (DPDN) of the Hovieur Miley Government, which notes the theoretical leading principles of this area, will finish the provision of a framework for a turn initiated in December 2023, while the document is still under control, there are decisions that already clearly determine the new geopolitical obligation.
One of the most specific is the joint resolution of 39/2025, signed by Petri and Foreign Minister Gerardo Verthein, which has recalculated a map of defense aggregate units and the deployment of officials in countries that are considered strategic for cooperation in the field of international security. The text emphasizes that these offices “represent a fundamental pillar in the international defense strategy, are key tools for the projection of foreign policy and national interests in international defense and security”.
The panoramic view of the new distribution shows that 50% of the 34 links deployed in the world are concentrated in America, three of them in the United States and one in Mexico, in addition to another 13 in countries such as Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecwador, Paraguay and Urugu. Europe retains relevance with eight units (Spain, Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Denmark); They are followed by five (China, India, Russia and Japan), Africa with two (Egypt and South Africa) and one in the Middle East.
Those who concentrate with a great donation, with three appointed military, are those who of the United States, Brazil and Chile. China, Peru and Spain have two. The rest of the countries have a single operating representative. For a senior military world, “this decision has political rationality, but also the economy: why do I have a set in the place, how much does it cost me and what am I getting in exchange?
The chainsaw also passed through this chapter: the offices were closed in Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. On the contrary, it was determined to discover new dependencies in Denmark, where the F-16 was acquired in Belgium with their proximity to NATO and the European authorities, and in Japan, as part of the plan by stages to strengthen the presence in Southeast Asia. According to the official schedule, these three aggregates will be fully commissioned in 2026. And if there is a budget margin, it is also studied to open offices in Morocco and Turkic.
In addition, other countries emphasize their military relations with Argentina, regardless of whether they directly move ties or expand their presence from nearby countries. This is a case when Morocco, India, Austria, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel, who plan to transfer their regional base of operations from Chile to Buenos -Aires, as confirmed by officials from Argentina to the country.
VACA muerta in the eyes of the world
The United States was also in the news center for the decision of Judge Loretta Perish, who ordered Argentina to transfer YPF oil shares to the Burford Capital and Bainbridge funds as part of the trial on expropriation. The case copied the digital ecosystem: 14.2% of the references rotated around YPF, 23.7% to Argentina and 32.1% to mayle. Another 14.4% were concentrated on gas, in the full crisis to reduce supplies.
While the government is preparing an appeal, VACA Muerta again became the center of attention, where YPF played a key role, led by the first investment in the risk to activate the unconventional energy potential of the pool. Almost simultaneously with the decision, the report of the International Energy Agency (IEA) entitled “Oil 2025” included VACA Muerta as a strategic source with prospects for growth against the fall of production in other parts of the world.
“With the Middle East in the fire, looking at the region of the world and with stability, it gives another value of VACA Muerta,” said the official of the El Croonist’s energy sector. In the report of Argentina, the United States, Canada, Brazil and Gayan in Quintet, which guarantee the global OVEP+ global proposal in the coming years.
“After an increase to 11 million barrels a day since 2016, the receipt will increase production by another 2.8 million by 2030, and combined production, which is close to a third of the global oil supply,” the report said. As for Argentina, it indicates that “the growth of VACA Muerta will be due to the new ability to prey and the use of economic reforms.”
The link no less takes into account the uncertainty that was caused in several provinces that connect their development plans for the operation of the mega -site. There are initiatives such as the South Vaca Muerta gas pipeline, who strive to connect the cow Moert Riogrino with the port of Punt Colorado to go to the Atlantic. And other farms are added to this in the YPF folder, such as Palermo farms, in Santa Cruz, which planned to develop three wells since September.
In this context, Governor Neukino Rolando Figeroa went to Washington and New York with two ministers to the United States for business with investors, legal research and credit agencies. He also met with Thomas Lersten from the deputy secretariat of economic growth, energy and the environment in the State Department of the Trump administration. The entire agenda was developed by the Argentinean by the Argentine Alec Oksenford.
Figeroa took advantage of the trip to anticipate the following regulation of the hard and position the province as a technological pole, as a “nervous point” for the development of artificial intelligence. “Neuquén can provide energy to the entire southern cone,” he said, adding that VACA Muerta can “offer the world the consumption of Argentina and Chile together, multiplied by six over the next 30 years.” At the same time, they work in search of the land of companies that want to use climatic and energy advantages for installing data centers.
An agreement that is almost falling
In parallel, Buenos Aires is the top of Mercosur, marked by the transfer of Javier Milei Pro Tempore to Lulu and Silva. There was a visible tension, with a small number of smiles in some photographs and the jealous recommendations of the military house and the security of the head of state. In fact, all employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which did not appear in the offices in those days, kindly reported.
The stage was the signing of a commercial agreement with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), consisting of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. What sought to disguise, and this is negotiating in the racks is that everything was close to operation and the Libertarian temporary presidency of his gold brooches in Nafta, in which there were already a decade of parishes and turns.
(S) Mercosur reports negotiations with the EFTA free trade association (for its abbreviation in English). Argentinean Chancellor, Gerardo Verthein, accompanied by an EFTA representative, provides details at the press conference in the framework of the 66th summit …
– Mercosur (@mercosur) July 2, 2025
The main obstacle was the Swiss demand to guarantee exceptions in intellectual property, so as not to be forced to produce certain medicines in the territory of Brazil. From Brazil, they resisted the argument that the standards of PEG were already observed, and that the adoption of special conditions would lay out a risky precedent.
Confirmation of the Swiss company came just a few days before the top, after the emergency department was headed by the main negotiator of this country and a fleeting trip to Brazil to close the details. This news brought relief in the office of Gerardo Verthen, the Argentinean Chancellor, which a new red date appears on the horizon: July 9
“We have reached a fair agreement, an important agreement for everyone,” Ratified the Swiss Vice -President and the head of the Federal Department of Economics, Training and Research, Guy Parkelin, after he released his signature in Buenos -Aires. Now it remains when the contract is ratified by eight legislative funds of both blocks.
