US presses: asks Alberto to keep pressure on Maduro's Venezuela

The government of United States reacted to the intention of the Frente de Todos candidate, Alberto Fernandezof radically change the position with which Argentina tackled the crisis in Venezuelaand warned that the permanence of the country in the Lima group is "essential for regional security", in order to avoid moving away from this mechanism that has supported the Speaker of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, as president in charge.

After the candidate had assured that Argentina should leave the club of countries that wished to leave Nicolás Maduro – Even threatening to use force – Washington officials have acknowledged to this newspaper its intention to avoid a radical change in the state's position.

"The Lima Group is a collaborative forum in which the plight of the Venezuelan people is discussed, and Argentina's participation in this forum is both valuable and crucial for regional security", a spokesman for the State Department for Western Hemisphere Affairs said The chronicler.

The US government also pointed out that its members "They have different perspectives and approaches to solving the crisis, and what unites them is not a specific answer, but a shared commitment to ending the suffering as quickly and peacefully as possible", recalling that the White House "She is ready to work with any government that governs democratically and addresses relations with goodwill".

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Last week, Fernandez paid tribute to the position of Mexico and Uruguay in the framework of another international mechanism, the International Contact Group (GCI), led by the European Union (EU). He claimed that "it's the right position to deal with a problem that we all see".

In Alberto, "Argentina must be among the countries that want to help Venezuelans find a way out, and being in the Lima group is contradictory".

Quick reflexes, the government accentuated the distance with Fernández recognizing Elisa Trotta as the only representative of Venezuela in the countryGuaidó delegate, who ended up ignoring Maduro's appointed officials. In fact, the Chancellor Jorge Faurie He acknowledged that they had asked these officials to leave the country.

In the first election debate, Macri interviewed Fernandez and said that "there can be no double talk" regarding Venezuela, where asked that you define whether there is "dictatorship or democracy". And reinforced: "Neutrality, it is to guarantee the dictatorship". Fernández took the gauntlet and, although he avoided the definitions, he declared that this country "had problems", but that Macri had the intention of "breaking relations" with Caracas in order to guarantee a military intervention.

In the diplomatic field, they suggested that Fernández not leave the Lima group to avoid friction with the United States during the start of negotiations with the IMF, while reducing their importance and concentrating their efforts on the GCI.