Argentina rejects again the military option and Faurie was seen with Juan Guaidó – 25/02/2019

With his colleagues from Chile, Colombia and Peru, Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie was Monday one of the active voices of the Lima group, which met in Bogotá. The group condemned the recent actions of Nicolás Maduro's regime, which violently rejected the humanitarian aid that it was attempting to introduce in Venezuela on Saturday 23, referred to the use of the International Criminal Court for crimes of Chavismo, recognized again Juan Guaidó as managing president and called for a solution to the long crisis "without the use of force". Argentina rejects military intervention in Venezuela, as suggested by some sectors in the United States, which was not ruled out by Vice President Mike Pence.

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At the same time, Faurie kept Monday a exchange of words with the self-proclaimed interim president Guaidó, who over the weekend was encouraged to cross the border and participate in the group's meeting, challenging the chauvinist justice that forbade him to leave his country. Seeing him at the meeting in Bogota, Guaidó came across to greet Faurie. According to witnesses, the Venezuelan told him with a smile that he would visit Argentina as soon as he could. As he has done before, he also thanked all the efforts made by Argentina for his compatriots.

It was the First meeting in person of a senior Argentine official with the leader of the opposition, the National Assembly of Venezuela. Mauricio Macri was one of the first leaders to recognize him on Jan. 23, when he proclaimed himself acting president of his country. Since then, Guaidó has met several times with Macri and Faurie, but there has never been a meeting in person. By the way, Clarin These are the first Argentine media to interview him.

Faurie went on Monday together with his chief of staff, Hernán Bielus, and Minister of Institutional Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tomas Kroyer, who will be responsible for the newly created Unit for the Reconstruction of Venezuela. , which operates in this department. They were together with the ambbadador in Bogotá, Marcelo Stubrin, attending the meeting of the group, which will have to fix a new meeting in Santiago de Chile.

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Vice President Michael Pence attended Monday's meeting, which Faurie hailed. There was no meeting between the two, for the moment. On Monday, the US Treasury Department announced the imposition of sanctions on four Venezuelan governors allied with Maduro. In this regard, Pence announced that his country would announce even tougher sanctions against the "corrupt financial networks" and badured that "we will recover every dollar stolen and we will return it to the Venezuelan people".

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