Macri receives Bolsonaro and Duque, with the crisis in Venezuela

The President will receive on Thursday his Brazilian counterpart and Colombian President Sunday to discuss options that could accelerate the democratic withdrawal of Nicolás Maduro.

One will arrive on Thursday and spend all day at Casa Rosada in the company of his host and other special guests from the legislative and judicial branches. The other will land on Sunday the 9th and supper on the fifth of Olivos, also with the president

Mauricio Macri

as the interlocutor.

The President of Brazil,

Jair Bolsonaro,

and his pair from Colombia,

Iván Duque

, will be in Buenos Aires with a few days of difference and a common concern: to find a common answer to the Venezuelan dilemma, which affects them in similar proportions and which today finds a channel of dialogue between Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó under the Aegis of Norway.

"Brazil and Colombia are the two countries most affected by the humanitarian tragedy in Venezuela and migration from that country," they said.
THE NATION of the government. Macri was one of the first presidents of the region to criticize Maduro's "dictatorship" and to recognize Guaidó as interim president.

"We agree with a negotiated solution that prevents the bloodshed, provided it is not to extend Maduro's mandate to power," they said.
THE NATION near Chancellor Jorge Faurie, in line with the position of the Lima group, which includes Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. "We want elections with external controls and that jailed opponents can participate," they added to the Argentine Foreign Ministry.

Days after
his son Eduardo, chairman of key committees of the Brazilian Parliament, met in Olivos the chief of staff, Marcos Peña, and the secretary for Strategic Affairs, Fulvio Pompeo (the president hailed him briefly). Bolsonaro will travel to the country with Macri on the situation in Venezuela, although other problems arise in his busy schedule, namely a day in the country. His son and his deputy also informed him of the evolution of the economy – he spoke with Nicolás Dujovne – and of the Argentine predisposition to adopt "a more homogenous position vis-à-vis the financial storms "that shakes the country.

Cooperation agreements on nuclear development and defense, common legal approaches, the consolidation of Mercosur and the possibility of deepening the newly created Prosur are part of the common agenda. They have left, they say to the Chancellery and to the Rose House, the tensions aroused by Bolsonaro's promise to go to Chile after his accession to the presidency on 1 January. "We believe that we are able to take a step towards greater integration of the bilateral link," said Pompeo.
THE NATION.

In the Argentine government, they are concerned about the difficulties Bolsonaro has faced in advancing key issues such as labor and social security reforms, but they ensure that the harmony between the two presidents "is very important. clear "and congratulated themselves.
Kirchnerism's critics that Bolsonaro made this week in an interview at
THE NATION, which makes public whenever it refers to the internal politics of its neighbor.

"We always thought we could win and we said it, and they are both part of a group, [Donald] Trump and [Andrés Manuel] López Obrador, leaders from the clbadical political scheme voted by the people ", they said near the president.

With regard to Duque, dinner with Olivos Macri and the first ladies will be followed by meetings on Monday 10, and Venezuela at the center of attention and the ambbadador of Argentina in Colombia, Marcelo Stubrin, as an articulator presidential visit. This will be Duque's first visit to the country since taking office last August. Commercial, educational and defense-related exchanges will be added.