Filter the secret letter of Pope Francis to Nicolás Maduro: there is caution, but also reproaches – 13/02/2019

The main newspaper of Italy, the Corriere della Sera of Milan, revealed Wednesday the content of the secret letter of Pope Francis in response to the request for mediation directed by Nicolás Maduro for the crisis in Venezuela. They are two and a half pages, with the pontiff's signature, full of caution and reproach to "Mr. Maduro"by avoiding giving him the title of president.

Jorge Bergoglio does not care much about the repeated attempts of the Venezuelan government to ask for mediations in the Vatican "and the obedience of the Holy See".

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"We had to try to give an outlet to the Venezuelan crisis. Unfortunately, all were interrupted because what was agreed at the meetings was not followed by concrete actions to conclude the agreement.. And the words seemed to delegitimize the good intentions that had been formulated in writing. "

The columnist Mbadimo Franco, author of the scoop, says that the meaning is clear: "Maduro sought to dialogue using the Vatican screen to no longer reflect the commitments made. And the pope makes him see"

Francisco repeats that he has always been supportive of mediation.

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"But no dialogue but what is undertaken when the different parties in conflict place the common good above all other interests and work for unity and peace"he says.

Bergoglio details the role played by the Holy See, alongside the Venezuelan Bishops, "as guarantor and at the request of the parties" in a first phase, at the end of 2016.

"It was an effort to get out of the crisis peacefully and institutionally, through negotiations between the Maduro government and the table of democratic unity. [la oposición], with a series of conditions to satisfy ", remark.

In a letter of 1 December 2016, "the Holy See has clearly indicated the budgets so that dialogue is possible".

"These demands" and others that have been added by the situation "are" more than necessary ", writes the pope, and the journalist Franco speaks of disappointment because "the attempts were frustrated by the mute resistance of the Maduro regime and the reality of a divided and confused Venezuelan opposition".

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The content of the pope's letter dated February 7 "is always cautious".

"Francisco's caution appears to be in keeping with the desire to maintain a moderate stance between the United States and Europe, which favors the recognition of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Juan Guaidó, as president, self- proclaimed at a street protest on 23 January in Caracas. ", adds the journalist of the Corriere della Sera, who seems to badyze the question with the certainty of a reliable source, that's what gave him a copy of the secret letter.

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Add Franco: "The current situation is dramatic and any mediation may appear outside the maximum period. "

At the end of the letter, the pope explains to Maduro that he "deeply disrupts the situation" in "the suffering of the noble Venezuelan people, who does not seem to have an end"

It's about, concludes the columnist, the last generous and prudent hand that Francisco tends so that the Maduro regime can hang on.

Vatican Correspondent