Macri lunch with Piñera, Abdo and Vázquez to relaunch the bid for the 2030 World Cup and discuss the crisis in Venezuela

Wednesday noon, the fifth of Olivos, Mauricio Macri will share a frugal salad with Sebastián Piñera, Mario Abdo and Tabaré Vázquez for revive the joint candidacy of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay at the 2030 World Cup. The President will also take advantage of the opportunity to discuss the economic situation in Venezuela and the geopolitical feasibility of Prosur, a multilateral mechanism aimed at agreeing to Piñera to replace the inevitable agony of Unasur.

Alejandro Domínguez, president of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol), will attend the presidential luncheon until the end of the 2030 World Cup program. Dominguez is a key element in formulating an unprecedented proposal in the organization of the world.: There has never been a candidacy headed by four countries, let alone that these countries are emerging and with a long history of economic crises.

For the International Federation of Associated Football (FIFA), the alliance between Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay presents a structural complexity that complicates their chances of getting ahead. organization of the 2030 World Cup.

FIFA baderts – at its informal meetings in Zurich – that there has never been a world tournament organized by four states and the regional economic situation can conspire to have funds finance the construction of stadiums, access roads, communications and other infrastructure deployed as part of a football world cup.

The replies of Macri, Abdo, Vázquez and Piñera to these arguments are predictable and subject to a future condition difficult to verify in the present. The four presidents say the regional economic situation will be consolidated by 2030 Argentina included – and that the four participating States have a long history of football the quality of the organization and the mbadive presence of tourists in the fields of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Differences with Venezuela

At the end of the treatment of the possible candidature of the four countries to the 2030 World Cup, Macri, Abdo, Vázquez and Piñera badyze the complex political and economic situation in Venezuela. In this context, it is easy to predict that Vázquez will mark his diplomatic differences with Macri, Piñera and Abdo, who propose the displacement of Nicolás Maduro and the beginning of a democratic transition that should lead to free and transparent elections.

The Uruguayan president believes that Maduro must remain at the Miraflores Palace and that humanitarian aid must be provided through the United Nations. Macri, Abdo and Piñera do not exclude the use of the United Nations to alleviate the humanitarian crisis facing Venezuelans, but consider that the key to the transition is the immediate relocation of Maduro and its nomenclature.

For Macri, Abdo and Piñera, the populist regime has already completed its cycle and Maduro must be forced to resign allow the Venezuelan society to freely choose its new head of state. Vázquez, meanwhile, argues with his colleagues from Mexico, Italy, China, Russia and Iran that the populist leader must remain in place and begin negotiations with Juan Guaidó. – Acting President of Venezuela – Finding a peaceful solution to the crisis.

The four heads of state know that Maduro and Guaidó are unlikely to be seated at the same table to bury a political cycle that started with Hugo Chavez and the price of oil at historical levels. And in this sense, Uruguay's strategy appears more a diplomatic duty than a proposal related to realpolitk and the objective conditions observed in Venezuela.

With all, Macri, Vázquez, Abdo and Piñera have a fundamental and indispensable coincidence: they refuse to endorse a military adventure -Inte combat or invasion-promoted by Donald Trump to ban Maduro and his generals. A possibility that, for the moment, the White House is undone.