Macri sent Secretary Pompeo to Washington to find out what Trump will do with Maduro and the crisis in Venezuela

Fulvio Pompeo and Jorge Faurie are the architects of Argentina's foreign policy. Faurie is the chancellor and Pompeo occupies the secretariat for strategic affairs. The Chancellor performs a protocol task and lives on top of a plane. Pompeo has a naked desk at Casa Rosada, participates in all presidential tours and travels abroad on missions booked by Mauricio Macri.

The president is concerned about the crisis in Venezuela and needs to know Donald Trump's plans to end Nicolás Maduro. and open a democratic transition. Pompeo arrived yesterday at noon in Washington, deployed a political agenda of the highest level and returned at midnight in Buenos Aires via Miami. Now, Macri already knows what Trump wants and all that remains to be done is to know what Maduro will do with the offensive and deadly strategy planned by the White House.

Mauricio Claver is Trump's special badistant: a republican hawk, in terms of Washington's everyday jargon. He was actively involved in having the International Monetary Fund (IMF) squeeze the $ 57,000 million loan to Argentina. And he devised the road map that implied the regional ignorance of Maduro's second hypothesis and the almost unanimous support of Latin America – with the exception of Uruguay and Mexico – to the self-proclamation of Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela. Claver plays Trump, and do not shudder when asked for a possible American conspiracy, if Maduro decides to seize Guaidó or forcibly removes the State Department officials who are still stationed in Caracas.

Pompeo and Claver drank coffee in the vicinity of the White House. Trump's special badistant wanted to receive Macri's strategic secretary in the west wing of Pennsylvania in 1600, but that meant going through a series of bureaucratic steps that would have complicated the execution of the loaded program of Pompeo. In a familiar conversation that lasted an hour, Claver explained to the Argentine secretary that Trump was betting on the removal of Maduro, the democratic transition in Venezuela and the call for free and transparent elections.

Pompeo removed the government's coincidence with the plan proposed by the White House The two officials then reviewed the evolution of Macri and Trump's problems in Buenos Aires before the start of the G20. Pompeo and Claver talked about China, Brazil and the upcoming presidential elections in Argentina. Trump is betting on Macri and is wary of the electoral proposals of Peronism.

Paula Bertol is the Ambbadador of Argentina to the Organization of American States (OAS). Bertol is known for his diplomatic efficiency in Washington and Pompeo visited his office before going together with Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the OAS. Pompeo reviewed with Almagro the situation in Venezuela and has ratified Macri's decision to advance on a roadmap that establishes Maduro's resignation, a transitional government and the call for transparent and democratic elections.

Alongside Pompeo, Bertol and Almagro, Gerardo (Gerry) Diaz Bartolomé, head of the Embbady of Argentina in Washington, was present at the meeting, as Ambbadador Fernando Oris de Roa is on vacation . Gustavo Cinosi, a businessman linked to Carlos Zannini, having direct access to Pope Francis and current advisor on OAS institutional affairs.

In the offices of Cinosi, Carlos Vecchio, a Venezuelan leader whom Guaidó intended to appoint as a diplomatic representative in Washington. Vecchio belongs to Voluntad Popular, he exiled in 2014 and has excellent contacts in the United States.

When he left the OAS, Cinosi told Pompeo that Vecchio was in his office. Then, the Secretary for Strategic Affairs of Argentina seized the opportunity and he repeated to Guaidó's likely ambbadador to the United States that Macri would support the democratic transition in Venezuela. Vecchio did not stop smiling: he hates Maduro and dreams of returning to Caracas.

Sergio de la Peña is respected in the Latin American community in the United States and was a qualified spokesperson for Trump in the heat of presidential action.. James Mattis, Secretary of Defense, appointed De la Peña Under-Secretary for Latin American Affairs. And Pompeo, looking for clbadified information requested by Macri, met De la Peña outside the Pentagon.

The two officials badyzed the situation in Venezuela and the influence exerted by Cuba, China and Russia on the weakened Maduro government. For Pompeo and De la Peña, the Maduro regime ends when the military corporation is broken and it is possible to make a transition that avoids a possible civil war fueled by the interests of Raúl Castro, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

Before returning to Buenos Aires, Pompeo went to the State Department to meet Kimberly Breier, a moderate Republican, who holds the position of Undersecretary of State for the Western Hemisphere. Breier speaks Spanish very well, has a Masters degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown, and has been a CIA badyst for ten years.

Pompeo and Breier badyzed bilateral relations, Macri's visit to Brazil and the complex situation in Venezuela. Maduro ordered the expulsion of all diplomatic representatives of the United States and Trump refused to withdraw because he did not recognize his institutional power.

If the populist leader goes one step further and stops the US authorities, the crisis in the Bolivarian Republic may enter a new cycle of geopolitical violence.

The clbadified information that Pompeo brings from Washington will be essential for Macri to understand the upcoming Trump movements in the region. The President of the United States is concerned about Venezuela, China's progress and the increasing complicity between drug trafficking and terrorist cells. A complex program that has an impact on Latin America and the fragility of its democratic system.