Pope launches mediation challenges in Venezuela | Fil …

The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has leaked part of a letter sent by Pope Francisco to President of the Venzuela, Nicolás Maduro, in which are conditioned the opening to the dialogue that he had promised to 39 to accompany to contribute to the institutional crisis that the country is going through. According to the newspaper, Bergoglio reportedly responded to Maduro's request for mediation a day after receiving it and criticized the president for saying that "what had been agreed at the meetings was not followed by any of them." concrete actions ". In addition, the pope reiterates "the need to avoid any form of bloodbath".

In the fragment of the published letter, Francisco recalls the repeated attempts requested by Maduro and made by the Vatican in recent years to "try to find a way out of the Venezuelan crisis". "Unfortunately, they were all interrupted because what was agreed at the meetings was not followed by concrete actions to implement the agreements," writes the pontiff, according to Corriere della Sera.

On 6 February, referring to Maduro's request, the pope warned the press that "for the mediation to be carried out, the will of both parties is necessary". Returning from his visit to the United Arab Emirates, the plane had not revealed to him that there had been an official response to Maduro's request to mediate after the president's proclamation. National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, as the country's internal president.

In the letter dated February 7, Francisco goes on to say that this series of requests that were considered in the past "was indispensable to the fruitful and effective development of the dialogue" and "others that had been added as a result of the The situation is "more necessary than ever. According to the Italian newspaper, Maduro is not designated as president but as "Your Excellency".

Acting spokesman for the Vatican, Alessandro Gisotti, did not want to comment or deny what he considered the publication of "a private letter" of the Pope in a media outlet.

The Vatican had already intervened in the past in the search for diplomatic alternatives to the Venezuelan situation, with repeated calls for dialogue. The one that exists now, however, would be the first that directly raises the possibility of mediation in the Vatican. "The initial conditions are clear: the parties are asking for it, we are still available," Bergoglio said last week. And illustrated by the fact that it is "like when people go to see the priest because there is a problem between husband and wife: one part, and the other comes or does not come? Do you want it or not? "