Álvaro Uribe, the "bête noire du chavisme", met Macri

They met in 2016 in Bogotá and at the inauguration of Iván Duque to the presidency of Colombia last August. But the former president of this country, Alvaro Uribe, did not want to leave Casa Rosada without having spoken with his friend, President Mauricio Macri, with whom he spoke Monday afternoon, with Venezuela at the center of discussions.

And the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, which coincided with Macri and Uribe, was the most important topic of the meeting, which lasted about twenty minutes and was part of the program of the former Colombian president (2002-2010) , who also met with the governor of Buenos Aires, Maria Eugenia Vidal; Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Secretary of Strategic Affairs Fulvio Pompeo.

According to LA NACION, Macri and Uribe have expressed concern over the refusal of Nicolás Maduro's government to accept humanitarian aid (including food and medicine) that will arrive Friday from three different routes: Cúcuta in Colombia , North of Brazil. and some Caribbean islands. In the government, they believe that he is constantly going towards a "weakening" of Maduro's positions, and that it is "very likely" that there will be an "important break" in the support of the Venezuelan army in Maduro. authorization of help to reach those who need it. Argentina does not participate directly in humanitarian aid, but has taken the decision to "collaborate if necessary" with the sending of representatives of the White Helmets Commission, who report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and who are already working with international humanitarian missions related to the mbad migration of Venezuelans to countries bordering the region.

The government badured that Uribe congratulated Macri, whom he has known since his term as mayor of Buenos Aires, for his pressure "for democracy in Venezuela" in international forums in which he participated for more than a year. three years. . He also ironically reminded that during his presidency years, his background was "much more difficult", with presidents such as Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Cristina Kirchner and Fidel Castro in the governments of the American continent and located in their ideological antipodes. And he "envied" that today the panorama of presidents of Latin America is moving away more and more from this landscape endowed with a strong preeminence of "l & # 39; Bolivarian axis "led by Chávez.

Prior to his meeting with Macri and Pompeo, Mr. Uribe visited the Minister of Security, who today is part of the "hard line" of fighting drug trafficking used by Mr. Uribe during his eight years in the Colombian presidency. According to official sources, they spoke of security issues, but also of the extinction of property, the mechanism used by Colombia to reuse badets seized from convicted drug traffickers, which served as a basis. project design in the country. firstly in the form of a proposal to the Congress and finally with the DNU signed by the President and which will be debated at the bicameral Commission in the coming hours.

With Vidal, whom Uribe visited after seeing the president during one of his last activities in Argentina – the former president and today Colombian senator talked about a future meeting of Latin American women in his country.