Argentine-Portuguese relations

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The Argentine-Portuguese relations describe the interstate relationship between Argentina and Portugal . The countries have maintained diplomatic relations since Argentina's independence in 1821.

The points of contact of the bilateral relations today are the growing trade relations and the joint work in international bodies such as the Ibero-America Summit , the Latin Union , the World Trade Organization or the negotiations between Mercosur and the EU . Argentina has also had observer status in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries since 2018 .

The historical Portuguese immigration should also be mentioned. However, the Portuguese community in Argentina is in decline. In 2012, only 6,800 Portuguese citizens were registered in the consulates there, after around 32,000 Portuguese had settled in Argentina by 1950. Today, many descendants of Portuguese immigrants also have Argentine citizenship and are no longer registered in Portuguese consulates.

history

Despite the Portuguese-Spanish Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), a large number of Portuguese traders, craftsmen, mercenaries and artists also sought their fortune in areas of South America that had been closed to Spain, including Argentina, which also bordered the Portuguese colony of Brazil . Traces of Portuguese craftsmen can be found in the region of the Río de la Plata in particular , such as the carpenter Fernão Peres who worked on a large number of church buildings in the region from around 1530. A number of Portuguese silversmiths were particularly active in the 17th century, in Buenos Aires alone, for example, Rodrigo Ferreira (1603), Bernardo Pereira (1623), Francisco Costa (1635), Manuel de Seixas (1636) and António Ribeiro (1640), in Tucumán made a name for themselves around 1599 by Garcia Serrano and Manuel Serrano, who came from Tavira .

Association headquarters of Portuguese immigrants, Comodoro Rivadavia 1923

In 1680, Portugal's King D. Pedro II had the settlement Colônia do Sacramento (Spanish Colonia del Sacramento ) built to defend Brazil on the Río de la Plata. After Sacramento changed hands several times by force of arms or by contract, Argentina, which was not yet independent, conquered the village in 1811, which then became Portuguese again in 1817. From 1822 to 1828 it belonged again to Brazil, which had meanwhile become independent. With the independence of Uruguay in 1828, Argentina finally lost Sacramento for good.

The Portuguese government residing in Rio de Janeiro recognized the independence of Argentina on April 16, 1821.

On October 23, 1910, Argentina recognized the Portuguese Republic, which had been proclaimed two weeks earlier .

Around 1910, a community of Portuguese immigrants began to form in the capital, Buenos Aires , mostly former seamen and small business people. The seafarers often worked in shipping traffic on the Río de la Plata and then also in the trolleybuses as drivers. The first association of Portuguese immigrants was founded in Buenos Aires as early as 1918, the Club Portugués , which still exists today . Portuguese immigration to Argentina increased with the increasing economic crisis in Portugal in the 1920s and after the right-wing military coup under Gomes da Costa in 1926, and probably reached its peak by 1950. Politically, relations between the two countries remained largely good, but not very intensive.

Since the end of the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship in 1974 and the Argentine military dictatorship in 1983, the two countries have steadily converged, especially since the regular Ibero-America summits (since 1991) and the Association Agreement between Mercosur and the EU (1995)

The Portuguese writer Abel Botelho , Portugal's ambassador to Argentina from 1912 to 1917

Argentina was given observer status at the 12th Conference of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries in Cape Verde on July 17-18, 2018.

diplomacy

Argentina's representations in Portugal

The Argentine embassy in Portugal is located in the capital, Lisbon , on Avenida João Crisóstomo No. 8. The administrative district includes Portugal as well as Cape Verde .

There are also no Argentine consulates in Portugal.

Portugal's representations in Argentina

As the first permanent Ambassador of Portugal to Argentina accredited at July 28, 1821 João Manuel de Figueiredo . The embassy resides at Maipú No. 942 in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires .

Portuguese honorary consulates exist in Comodoro Rivadavia , Córdoba , Mendoza and Rosário .

Bilateral agreements

The Republic of Argentina and the Republic of Portugal have signed a series of cooperation agreements in various fields, including various trade agreements , investment protection agreements , mutual legal assistance treaty and cultural agreements .

Since the Ibero-American social security convention of November 10, 2007 (Portuguese: Convenção Multilateral Ibero-Americana de Segurança Social de 10 de novembro de 2007 ) there has been a social security agreement between Argentina and Portugal .

Twin cities

The first Argentine-Portuguese city ​​partnership was entered into in 1992 with the two capitals Buenos Aires and Lisbon with a cooperation agreement. Since then, only two further partnerships have been established or initiated (as of 2015).

economy

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP has an office at the Portuguese Embassy in Buenos Aires. The Argentine-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce Câmara Argentina Portuguesa de Comércio exists in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires .

In 2016, Portugal exported goods and services worth EUR 111.3 million to Argentina (2015: 114.9 million; 2014: 63.5 million; 2013: 58.9 million; 2012: 62.1 million .). 41.6% of the goods were fuels, 19.5% wood and cork, 13.1% machines and devices and 6.5% textiles.

In the same period, Argentina delivered goods worth 106.5 million euros to Portugal (2015: 47.0 million; 2014: 64.0 million; 2013: 71.9 million; 2012: 89.6 million) . 59.8% of the goods were agricultural products, 32.5% foodstuffs, 2.4% leather and hides and 2.1% chemical-pharmaceutical products.

In 2015, Argentina was the 48th buyer and 49th supplier of Portuguese foreign trade in goods. In Argentina's foreign trade in goods, Portugal was 75th among buyers and 39th among suppliers.

The remittances of the Portuguese community in Argentina to Portugal amounted in 2015 to EUR 0.89 million (2014: 0,910,000 .; 2010: 1,020,000 .; 2001: 0.23 million), which also depend on the exchange rate of the Argentine peso to the euro . Conversely, EUR 1.03 million was transferred from Portugal to Argentina in the same period (2014: 0.76 million; 2010: 0.54 million; 2001: 0.05 million).

With 15.2 million euros in hotel and gastronomy income in 2016 (2015: 9.4 million; 2014: 6.4 million; 2013: 4.8 million; 2012: 2.3 million) there were Argentinian tourists for 0.12% of Portuguese tourism.

Poster for a panel discussion between the Portuguese author Saramago and the Argentine Minister of Education Filmus on the occasion of a film adaptation of Saramago (2008)

Culture

The Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões is u. a. with a language center and a lecturer at the state college Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramon Fernandez" in Buenos Aires.

The family of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) originally came from the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes . Borges was familiar with the work of Portuguese authors, particularly the Fernando Pessoas and the Eça de Queirós . Borges is one of the best-known Argentine authors in Portugal, while José Saramago can now be considered the most widely read Portuguese author in Argentina, along with Fernando Pessoa.

The Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes published in 1994 with The Death of Carlos Gardel a novel in which the singer Carlos Gardel plays a role. The work was also filmed in 2012 by the Portuguese-Swedish director Solveig Nordlund . Gardel is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Argentine tango and is also well known in Portugal.

Sports

The Argentine national soccer team and the Portuguese national team have played against each other eight times (as of January 2017). They met for the first time in a friendly on April 1, 1928 in Lisbon's Estádio do Lumiar and drew 0-0 without a goal. This was also the first game of the Portuguese against a South American team. Since then Argentina have won five and Portugal two games against each other.

At the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina Portugal did not participate.

Some Argentine players also played in Portuguese clubs, such as Nicolás Gaitán , who played for Benfica Lisbon for a few years .

The Argentine and Portuguese women's national teams have not yet met (as of January 2017).

gallery

Web links

Commons : Argentine-Portuguese Relations  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on Argentine-Portuguese migration (Table A.3) at the Portuguese Scientific Observatório da Emigração , accessed on February 24, 2017
  2. ↑ Fernando Cristóvão (Ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006 ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 ), p. 789
  3. ↑ a b c Fernando Cristóvão (Ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006 ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 ), p. 790
  4. ↑ a b c Overview of diplomatic relations with Argentina at the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on May 4, 2019
  5. ^ Website of the Clube Portugués in Buenos Aires (as blog), accessed on February 25, 2017
  6. ↑ CPLP: OBSERVADORES ASSOCIADOS , website of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries CPLP on observer status, accessed on September 1, 2019
  7. ↑ List of Portuguese diplomatic missions abroad , website of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on February 25, 2017
  8. ↑ List of bilateral agreements between Argentina and Portugal on the website of the Portuguese embassy in Argentina, accessed on February 25, 2017
  9. ↑ Website of the Portuguese Social Insurance on Portuguese-Argentinian regulations , accessed on February 25, 2017
  10. ↑ List of the Argentine-Portuguese city partnerships at the Association of Portuguese District Administrations ANMP, accessed on May 16, 2020
  11. ↑ Overview of the AICEP presence in Argentina of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP, accessed on February 25, 2017
  12. ↑ a b c d Bilateral economic relations between Portugal and Argentina , Excel file retrieval from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP, accessed on February 25, 2017
  13. ↑ Website on Argentine-Portuguese migration (Table A.6) at the Portuguese Scientific Observatório da Emigração , accessed on February 24, 2017
  14. ↑ Overview of the activities in Argentina , Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões , accessed on February 25, 2017