Not only because it shows support for a newly elected, pro-market president whose predecessor was accused of having turned the country into “a Cuba”, but also because Obama’s agenda at the time of a new dawn in Argentina firmly includes renewables and climate change.

For Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri, Obama's two-day visit starting 23 March comes as an incentive at the start of a long journey to economic recovery and the end of a decade-long ostracism from global finance.

But