Almagro met Peña to discuss the crisis in Venezuela and get the vote of Argentina for his reelection to the OAS

The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, arrived last night in Argentina and met the Chief of Staff, Marcos Peña, Secretary of Strategic Affairs, Fulvio Pompeo, and Chancellor Jorge Faurie to advance in two very specific objectives: to promote a new international attack on Nicolás Maduro's regime and to obtain the support of Argentina for his re-election as secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Almagro had breakfast with Faurie at San Martin Palace, then shared a coffee with Peña and Pompeo at Casa Rosada. At noon, the Secretary General of the OAS will deliver a speech at the traditional lunches of the Inter-American Council for Trade and Production (CICP), held at the Alvear Hotel. It is expected that Almagro's attack on Nicolás Maduro's regime and calls for a swift democratic transition led by Juan Guaidó, Venezuela's interim president.

During his successive meetings with Faurie, Peña and Pompeo, Almagro set out his views on Venezuela, Bolivia, the regional situation – Nicaragua and Brazil – and reiterated his intentions to obtain a new mandate in the region. ; OAS. The three officials responded with a diplomatic smile: Argentina has not yet formally solved the problem and expects Almagro to soften its political support for Evo Morales, who wants a new presidential reelection.

From his institutional point of view, the Secretary General of the OAS believes that it is necessary to exhaust the diplomatic chain to put an end to the power of Maduro and understands that new political gestures must be made to restore democracy in Venezuela as quickly as possible.

In fact, last week, Almagro had questioned the failure of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Venezuela to respect the deadline for election promotion and asked to intervene to "end the violence" in this South American country. It has not yet specified what would be the means to intervene to put an end to the Venezuelan crisis.

At the same time, the government believes that it is time for the Lima Group to intensify its international pressure on the OAS to put an end to Maduro's ambitions.

Regarding the crisis in Venezuela, the Secretary General of the OAS informed the Argentine government of the ongoing negotiation process in Norway with a view to the conclusion of an agreement between the Venezuelan opposition led by Guaidó and the Maduro regime. Although these negotiations have not led to any concrete conclusions, Almagro is closely following the negotiations which are strictly reserved.

And with regard to his re-election, at the Chancellery, they confirmed to Infobae According to Almagro, at the June 22 plenary meeting of the OAS in Medellín, the question of the re-election of the current secretary general will be settled. For this you should have a special majority that Almagro has not yet.

However, from the government, they explained that "Macri has not yet defined his support" for the re-election of Almagro, although he surely supports it. A problem that has generated discomfort at Casa Rosada has been Almagro's strong support for the re-election of Bolivian President Evo Morales, this candidacy being challenged by its unconstitutional vices by the Bolivian opposition.

During a recent visit to La Paz, Mr Almagro said that "it would be absolutely discriminatory" that Evo Morales could not run for the October elections in Bolivia. However, this application is full of contradictions.

Morales came to power in January 2006 for a period of five years, with a constitutional ban on consecutive re-election, and there is already more than 13 years of application of the Castro-Chavista model forcing constitutional powers.