When Argentine President Mauricio Macri recently blessed his foreign minister Susana Malcorra’s candidacy for secretary general of the United Nations, the joke in Argentina was that the country already has a Pope (Francis) and the world’s best soccer player (Lionel Messi) so it was only natural that it should seek the top UN job.
But judging from what Malcorra told me in an interview earlier this week, her candidacy for the top UN job is a serious matter.
It means that a highly qualified and well-liked Latin American woman will join more than half a dozen other candidates for the UN job scheduled to be left vacant by Ban Ki-Moon at the end of the year. But it also raises possible conflict-of-interest questions regarding Malcorra’s stands on the