The UK's cultural and political influence in Argentina no longer operates solely through foreign academia or isolated media statements: it operates from within the very heart of the Argentine Foreign Ministry. An exclusive investigation by El Destape revealed that the Argentina Global Foundation launched a call for applications for the “Future Leaders Programme Argentina,” an initiative aimed at advanced students and university graduates, sponsored and directly funded by the British Embassy's Chevening Programme in Buenos Aires.

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The key fact that reveals the institutional gravity of this situation is that one of the founders of this organization is none other than Paola Di Chiaro , the current Secretary for the Malvinas, Antarctica, Ocean Policy, and the South Atlantic in Javier Milei's government . In other words, the official who, by mandate of the State, is responsible for defending national sovereignty against usurpation in the South Atlantic, a figure associated with the British Foreign Office's main instrument of soft power .

The training of cadres under the tutelage of London

The Chevening program has been operating in Argentina since the 1990s as a channel for recruiting talent: it selects local diplomats, political leaders, businesspeople and academics to train them in the United Kingdom under the lens of British foreign policy.

With this new local initiative, the Argentina Global Foundation and the British Embassy are offering virtual workshops, meetings with specialists, and institutional visits aimed at "understanding the main challenges of international politics." The schedule underscores the political subordination of the space: the opening workshop, on September 7, will be led by Fulvio Pompeo (former head of Strategic Affairs during the Macri administration and co-founder of the think tank ), while the closing event in February 2027 will take place at the British Embassy itself.

An unacceptable contradiction of state

The presence of the logo of the Argentina Global Foundation alongside that of the British Embassy and the royal seal of the Chevening program is graphic proof of the ideological and operational promiscuity that dominates current Argentine diplomacy.

While the United Kingdom consolidates its military base on Mount Pleasant, advances with the illegal exploitation of hydrocarbons in the Sea Lion project, plunders the fishing in waters surrounding the Malvinas and finances programs to capture lithium in the north of the country, the area responsible for litigating against the occupation facilitates the ideological recruitment of future generations of Argentine leaders.