{"id":233468,"date":"2016-03-23T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-arrives-in-argentina-in-historic-state-visit\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:30:45","slug":"obama-arrives-in-argentina-in-historic-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-arrives-in-argentina-in-historic-state-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama arrives in Argentina in historic state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"81\">\n<p><strong>US President Barack Obama has arrived in Argentina to reset diplomatic relations after decades of hostility.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama and the first family landed in the capital, Buenos Aires, on Wednesday morning amid heightened security a day after the terrorist bombings in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The US president is scheduled to meet with Argentinean President Mauricio Macri in the presidential palace to discuss trade, investment, and energy.<\/p>\n<p>The heads of state will proceed to lay a wreath at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral, where Pope Francis served as archbishop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the gesture of President Obama\u2019s visit is very important for us because it shows the interest and the priority of the US administration,\u201d Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra said in a press conference Monday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160323\/849b1755-16ed-4461-a0f1-d85ffe2d2bb3.jpg\"\/><figcaption>President Macri waves during the inauguration of the 134th period of ordinary sessions at the Congress in Buenos Aires on March 1, 2016. (AFP photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thousands of people plan to protest Obama\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/23\/457179\/Obama-arrives-in-Argentina-to-reset-ties\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has arrived in Argentina to reset diplomatic relations after decades of hostility. Obama and the first family landed in the capital, Buenos Aires, on Wednesday morning amid heightened security a day after the terrorist bombings in Brussels. The US president is scheduled to meet with Argentinean President Mauricio Macri in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}