Casa Rosada does not believe that the mediation of Pope Francisco in the Venezuelan crisis

Neither the president Mauricio MacrI neither the Chancellor Jorge Faurie, and still less the secretary of cults, Alfredo Miguel Abriani, or a lower ranking official of Casa Rosada, will publicly question the idea of ​​Pope Francis to mediate in the crisis in Venezuela. But Today, in the intimacy of the government, it became clear that Argentina does not approve of the mediating idea of ​​the pontiff, believing that "the times of dialogue were exhausted ". because now they understand, there is an illegitimate president who has to leave power.

Hours later, Francisco openly acknowledged his idea of ​​mediating between Nicolás Maduro and the opposition "if both agree," at Casa Rosada, talks were held between Macri and ambbadador to the Vatican, Rogelio Pfirter. The evaluation that emerged from these exchanges is as follows: the government does not believe in the results of a papal mediation since there have been several previous attempts that were wrecked.

"Here, there is an illegitimate government that belongs to Maduro and there is no room for dialogue, all that Maduro is looking for with the pope will be to buy time," he said. Infobae a senior official who has followed closely all the messages that the Vatican has published today.

In the same vein, the executive also clarified that The document published yesterday by the Lima group, which includes Argentina, as well as 12 other countries that question the dictatorship of Chavez, does not give rise to new dialogue initiatives promoted by the Venezuelan regime.

Thus, from Casa Rosada, the position of the pope was in silence and Macri and his representatives believe that the only way that remains in Venezuela is that Maduro renounces to occupy an illegitimate government.

A manager who badyzed the issue in government repeated the specific mention made yesterday by the Lima group at the meeting of Foreign Ministers in Canada. Point 4 of the declaration made it clear that "the dialogue initiatives advocated by various international actors have been manipulated by the Maduro regime, turning them into delaying tactics to perpetuate themselves in power and therefore consider that Any political or diplomatic initiative developed should aim to support the constitutional road map presented by the National Assembly and the President in charge, Juan Guaidó, who seeks a peaceful transition between the Venezuelans, who achieves the exit of the dictatorial regime of Maduro, allows the call for elections and the restoration of democracy in Venezuela. "

This means that Macri and the other presidents of the Lima group will insist that they fully support the interim government of Guaidó and approve no other actor acting as mediator.

On the other hand, at Casa Rosada, they recalled that Pope Francis failed in his attempts to mediate in the Venezuelan crisis for Chavismo's uncompromising attitude. In fact, the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, He went to Caracas to intervene directly in a papal mediation aimed at solving the Venezuelan crisis more than a year ago and nothing has been achieved. This happened between the years 2015 and 2016. In fact,The Maduro regime severely rejected at that time the papal mediation entrusted to the figure of Parolin. The head of the Holy See came to present a public letter in which he demanded the release of the political prisoners and the restoration of the National Assembly in Venezuela. But Maduro ignored all these claims.

In this context, in the Macri government, does not believe that Francisco can now get results. Without further ado, a manager of the administration of Cambiemos spoke for that means: "What is Maduro looking for and now the pope is proving to be save time and delay a deeper and deeper crisis ".

For his part, the secretary of worship Alfredo Abriani He remained in absolute silence before the papal message of a possible mediation by Venezuela. "We will not talk about anything that has to do with the crisis in Venezuela or the idea of ​​papal mediation"said a spokesman for Abriani, totally eliminating the possibility of a message from Argentina in this direction.

It is clear that the government will not go against the pope, let alone his idea of ​​mediation in Venezuela. But it is well defined that from Macri, all officials do not believe in the results of this trajectory and demand that a democratic government be re-established in Venezuela.