The United States has again asked the government for its position on Venezuela

For the second time in ten days, the administration of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, wanted to know firsthand what is the position of the Argentine government on the political and humanitarian crisis that Venezuela is going through with the Nicolás Maduro regime . On this occasion, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Felipe Solá was consulted, who met high-level American diplomats in Ecuador.

The framework of Washington’s new demand for the leadership of Alberto Fernández – before whom he had the same raised in Rome the special envoy for climate change, John Kerry– It was a meeting of Solá with US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield and President Biden’s Advisor Juan Sebastián González, before the assumption of responsibility of Guillermo Lasso as the new president of Ecuador.

González is senior director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere and is considered a Biden’s key envoy for his relationship with Latin America. This is why the consultation that Solá received in Quito was not taken lightly by the Argentine government. According to diplomatic sources in contact with THE NATION, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has ratified that the Fernández administration follows “the line of the UN in matters of human rights”.

On the political front, meanwhile, the foreign minister told American diplomats that for the Argentine government it would be vital for the Venezuelan opposition to participate in the next elections. Thomas-Greenfield and González “They took note” Solá’s remarks in the Ecuadorian capital, added the sources consulted.

During the meeting held in Quito, the North American envoys confirmed for their part that it is already a President Biden ‘Decision Taken to Ship Vaccines to Latin America, with particular attention to Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, in front of which the Minister of Foreign Affairs Solá assured that the Fernández government “Planes ready” to fetch the doses in North America.

U.S. diplomats have also expressed interest in organizing a regional summit on climate change, something Washington promotes globally as a hallmark of the Biden administration, after the environmental denial adventure of former President Donald Trump. “We think Biden is playing for real,” Solá told them. to Thomas-Greenfield and Juan González.

The Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs underlined, at this stage, the good harmony that exists between John Kerry and Pope Francis, who recently met in the Vatican. The meeting between Solá and the American diplomats lasted an hour. With González, in addition, there was a more private part, about which no details have transpired.

In Quito, before returning to Buenos Aires this morning, Solá also met the foreign ministers of Brazil, Bolivia, Panama and the host of Ecuador. To the new president Lasso, the head of the Palacio San Martín has promised that “soon” Argentina will send a new ambassador, given that she currently has only one entrepreneur, following the resignation of Darío Giustozzi, who held the post under the Cambiemos administration.