Lima group meets for Venezuela crisis – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

The Lima group he has always proclaimed a peaceful and democratic way out "and that it is the Venezuelans themselves who, under the Constitution" must seek a solution to the crisis in their countrybut an armed option does not seem so far.

In this sense, the Chilean Chancellor Roberto Ampuero He said Sunday that Chile would once again plead for a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the crisis.

"Chile reiterates its commitment to a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the serious crisis in this country (Venezuela), brother", Ampuero said in a video broadcast this Sunday by the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs said the crisis in Venezuela "is getting worse" with power cuts and repeated water cuts. The "harbadment" of the opposition, Juan Guaidó, is also aggravated, recognized as president in charge of more than fifty countries, including most of the 14 that make up the Lima group.

"Given that, It is necessary that the Lima group move to a new phase, strengthen its work to bring the new international actors to join the pressure against the dictatorship so that Venezuela finds its democracy, "added the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs.

However, the option of a possible US military intervention in Venezuela is on the table, said the US president. Donald Trump February 3 in an interview for CBSNews

Asked about the possibility of sending US troops to Venezuela, the president said: "I do not mean that, but it's definitely something that's … it's an option."

More direct was the federal senator from Florida, Rick Scott, who last Thursday "he asked for a military intervention" enter into humanitarian aid, and said the international community has a unified stance on the crisis in Venezuela.

Foreign Ministers in Chile, who will address the humanitarian, political and economic crisis in Venezuela, will also have to put a very delicate issue on the table, such as failing in their insistent calls to Nicolás Maduro to hand over his government and to allow new elections.

In addition, must address the failure of the meeting in the border town of Cucuta (Colombia), February 24, until the arrival of international aid intended for Venezuelans, but Maduro did not allow his entry without knowing until now what was the destination of this aid.

Until now, commitment of the Lima Group to promote and develop regional coordination initiatives in response to the political and humanitarian crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela he bounced against the pediment of dictator Nicolás Maduro.

In this same line, Maduro's immediate exit request and the constitutional recognition of the National Assembly and its president, Juan Guaidó, supported by some 52 nations, did not succeed, as thousands of Venezuelans emigrate from this Caribbean country in search of better horizons.

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), More than 3 million Venezuelans emigrated from their country and the migratory flow continues to increase.

There are days, the dictator Maduro said harshly that his country's problems would be solved in "national unity" with his regime, in a message addressed especially to the United States and allied countries of Latin America.

In addition, Monday's meeting in the Chilean capital of Lima Foreign Ministers will take place hours after a visit to several countries in the US Secretary of State's area, Mike Pompeo finished, which focused on the situation in Venezuela and led him to say "Maduro is a tyrant who ruined his country".