Macri met with Uribe and agreed to increase international pressure against Venezuela

It was a brief meeting and off the agenda of Casa Rosada. But Mauricio Macri He was delighted to receive one of the leaders of the most critical region of the Venezuelan regime, as Álvaro Uribe. The Argentine head of state and the former president of Colombia exchanged common opinions on the undemocratic progress of the Nicolás Maduro, need to exert international pressure against the illegitimate government of Caracas and support the interim president Juan Guaidó

During the half-hour that the meeting lasted in the presidential office on the first floor of Casa Rosada, Uribe and Macri shared a review of the situation in Venezuela. The meeting took place at the same time as the so-called Lima group, composed of Colombia and Argentina, as well as 11 other countries, issued a statement demanding that the Venezuelan armed forces guarantee the "peace". international humanitarian aid.

"It was an excellent meeting and many things in common," he said. Infobae a government official present during the exchange between Uribe and Macri. The principle of Maduro's power failure in front of an army which is beginning to show its dissatisfaction with Venezuela's reversal has also been badyzed.

The meeting between Uribe and Macri was not on the agenda of the presidential election and gained public status when the former Colombian president posted a photo on social networks. Beside the image, Uribe wrote: "President Macri, noble friend of our Colombian homeland and leader defined in the defense of democratic values".

Fulvio Pompeo, Secretary for Strategic Affairs of the Government, and Álvaro Pava Camelo, Ambbadador of Colombia to Argentina, participated in the meeting held at Casa Rosada. At the meeting, it was learned that Uribe had invited Macri to Colombia to pay tribute to the former opposition representative to Chavismo Corina Machado.

At the same time, Macri and Uribe have badessed the effects of international pressure on Maduro, as much of the world community does not recognize him as a state leader and approves interim president Guaidó, elected by National Assembly.

Before the meeting with Macri, Uribe had an interview with the Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich and with the governor of Buenos Aires Maria Eugenia Vidal, with whom they talked about the progress of the fight against drug trafficking. "Uribe congratulated us on fighting drug mafias," Bullrich said.

The former Colombian president was the target of criticism during the era of then President Hugo Chávez, and one of the international opponents of Chavismo in the region.