Lima group postponed meeting in Guatemala on the crisis in Venezuela

The Government of Guatemala announced Thursday that the meeting was adjourned. Lima He planned to celebrate in this country of Central America on May 20 to continue to badyze the situation in Venezuela.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala indicated that "Foreign Ministers and National Coordinators of the Lima decided to postpone the celebration of the XIV meeting "pending a series of results and added that the new date still had to be determined.

Countries decided to postpone this meeting pending the outcome of the "political-level mission to be carried out by the international contact group" and "the meeting between representatives of Lima and the International Contact Group. "

"The new date of realization of the XIVth meeting will be announced shortly", added the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a brief statement without giving further details.

The group of Lima It was created in the Peruvian capital in August 2017 with the aim of finding solutions to the crisis in Venezuela. At first, it was composed of a block of 14 nations, although it remains only 12: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.

Mexico has been dissociated from the initiative since the arrival to the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Venezuela is facing a political and social crisis that has intensified after the Speaker of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, declared himself acting president on January 23, citing articles of the Venezuelan Constitution and that 39, with the support of more than 50 countries, including Guatemala. .

The Venezuelan opposition, which does not recognize the new six-year term that Nicolás Maduro swore on January 10, considering last May's elections as illegitimate, says the country is going through a "complex humanitarian emergency" and asked for help. of the international community to attend.

In February, at a meeting in Canada, members of the Lima They agreed to include Julio Borges as a representative of Guaidó.

Two weeks ago, Guaidó led a mobilization against the Chavez regime and called on the armed forces to ignore Nicolás Maduro, who called the action an attempted coup d'etat.