Mexican aspiring IMF chief visits Argentina

The head of the Mexican Bank, Agustin Carstens, aspiring chief of the International Monetary Fund, will arrive in Buenos Aires in the next hours, a source said. He will do so after his visit to Brazil, where he also is gathering support to back his bid as a successor of Dominique Strauss Kahn.

He is scheduled to travel to Asia, Middle East and Africa to further promote his candidacy. Carstens will arrive in Brazil and he is expected to meet economic authorities, two days after French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Strauss Kahn’s most likely successor, did the same.

After his visit to Southamerica, the Mexican economist will travel to China and India, and then to Japan, Southafrica and Saudi Arabia.