Maduro’s regime has confirmed a bilateral meeting with the Argentinian Minister of Foreign Affairs: “We are strengthening the relations of brotherhood”

Venezuelan dictatorship Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza confirmed that he had held “a cordial meeting” with Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Solá “to strengthen brotherly relations and future cooperation”.

The meeting, highly promoted by the Chavista regime, was held yesterday in Mexico City, on the eve of the XXI Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) which was held today.

Argentina’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the meeting but made it into the list of other Solá bilateral meetings during the visit to Mexico, and the Argentinian ministry’s Twitter account thanked “for supporting the Malvinas issue and Argentina’s candidacy for the presidency of Celac.”

Alberto Fernández’s government aspires to the presidency for the moment of the bloc next September, when Mexico ceases to lead the organization created by the late Hugo Chávez in 2011.

Although the specific content of the meeting was not reported, they most likely spoke about the situation in Cuba, under the global spotlight of the brutal repression of the Castro dictatorship with the historic demonstrations unleashed on July 11. While Chavismo explicitly defended the Cuban regime – PSUV number two Diosdado Cabello went so far as to say that Cubans were not protesting but celebrating the Eurocup, Fernández avoided the question by saying he did not know “exactly. the dimension of the problem in Cuba ”.

The meeting once again confirms the alignment of the Argentine government with the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

Although during the presidential campaign Fernández condemned certain Chavist maneuvers, once in power he ratified the alliance. He invited regime officials to his inauguration in December 2019 and voted against all OAS determinations in which systematic violations of the dictatorship were noted.

In mid-May, the Argentine president gave his opinion on the human rights situation in Venezuela and stressed that this “problem was disappearing”. Blunt and blunt, opposition leader Juan Guaidó refuted the statement: “Human rights violations do not go away, human beings go away.

And a few days ago, by a decree updating the defense policy, the Fernández government wrote that it considers the crisis in Venezuela to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and by the sanctions imposed against the dictatorship. Bolivarian.

Moreover, the bilateral meeting between Solá and Arreaza only took place 24 hours after a harsh report from Lupa por la Vida, a joint initiative of the Gumilla Center and the NGO Provea, revealed that between January and June of this year they were registered in Venezuela 825 extrajudicial executions by the police and the army responding to Nicolás Maduro.

The surveillance reflects the high levels of impunity that govern Venezuelan security institutions. “Officials operate with complete freedom given the confidence that their conduct will not be investigated or sanctioned, and because they have the support of governors, ministers and other high-ranking figures in the government. Public Management.”

Earlier this month, Michelle bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, had already detailed in his report that The system of abuse and torture applied by the Chavista regime to opposition dissidents is still in effect in Venezuela. “The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has continued to receive credible reports of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. He received reports of beatings, electrocutions, sexual violence and threats of rape, ″ indicates part of the file.

The UN has documented new cases in which people have been the victims of enforced disappearances, in which they have been held incommunicado and the authorities have refused to share their whereabouts with their defenders or their families.

According to Foro Penal, the prestigious NGO which continuously monitors the human rights situation under the Chavist military dictatorship, to date, there are 306 political prisoners in Venezuela. Moreover, according to this institution, “more than 9,000 people continue to be subject to arbitrary measures restricting their freedom”.

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