Lima group meets in Buenos Aires to keep up pressure on Nicolás Maduro

In order to keep up the pressure about Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela The Foreign Ministers of the member countries of the Lima Group meet in Buenos Aires, created in 2017 to monitor and seek a peaceful outcome to the political and humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean country.

The meeting begins at 9:00 am at the Chancery headquarters in Buenos Aires and will be the first after the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, who said that during the 18 last months, she was known. there were 7 thousand murders in this country and this has forced the chavist regime to put an end to "serious violations of rights"

Chancellor Jorge Faurie He will be responsible for the opening of the meeting, which will be attended by his counterparts from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana and Peru, as well as delegates from other countries. . On behalf of the President in charge of Venezuela Juan Guaidó (who will participate in the meeting by video conference) will participate the Deputy of the National Assembly Julio Borges.

The last meeting of the group was held on June 6 in Guatemala. At this meeting, member countries called for an intensification of international pressure on Maduro so that it seeks a "peaceful" and "concerted" solution to the crisis, considered a threat to regional peace.

Now the new meeting will take place after the release of the Bachelet report in which he asked Maduro "stop and repair serious rights violations economic, social, civil, political and cultural. "In the document, he warned that" if the situation does not improve, the unprecedented exodus of emigrants and refugees leaving the country will continue ", which already exceeds four million people .

The government has a very critical position vis-à-vis Maduro and a few days ago it announced that it would start receiving complaints about human rights violations committed in Venezuela. The initiative will be entrusted to the Ministry of Justice, which will collect all the testimonies and information of victims who have suffered or are aware of this type of events. These data will then be badyzed and their referral to the relevant international organizations will be evaluated.

Macri: "Maduro must put an end to human rights violations"

Last week the president Mauricio Macri he asked Maduro to "put an end to human rights violations" in his closing speech at the Mercosur Presidents Summit. "I wish to express once again my solidarity with the Venezuelan people who suffers an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the region We recognize that the National Assembly and the president in charge, Juan Guaidó, are the only legitimate authority in Venezuela and we are asking Maduro to stop obstructing the transition, "he said.

In the document signed by the member countries of the trading bloc, they demanded "research an upcoming return of democratic institutions " in Venezuela and "to promote the total restoration of democracy", which includes holding "free, fair and transparent presidential elections in the shortest possible time".