Global Courant 2023-05-31 01:47:29
The meeting between Alberto Fernández and Nicolás Maduro in the framework of the Summit of South American Countries organized by Lula da Silva in Brazil quickly inflamed the opposition, which criticized the meeting and called the Venezuelan president a “dictator”.
The presidential candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta said he felt ashamed for the meeting, while stressing his commitment to democracy and his “solidarity” with “all the victims” of dictatorships in Latin America.
“The meeting between Alberto Fernández and the dictator Nicolás Maduro embarrasses me before the thousands and thousands of Venezuelans who chose to live in our country as a refuge from the Venezuelan dictatorship,” Rodríguez Larreta said on his Twitter account.
For her part, Patricia Bullrich, also a presidential candidate, published a brief message alluding to the news of the meeting: “Always on the wrong side of history. With me this ends.”
In the meeting, in which Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero and Ambassador to Brazil Daniel Scioli participated, Fernández asked Maduro to return Venezuela to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which is under the orbit of the OAS.
At the same time, he called for the lifting of international sanctions that the United States and the European Union maintain against Venezuela.
“Did you meet with the dictator to see how to lower inflation for the next month?” asked congressman Cristian Ritondo in a post on his social networks that included a photograph of Fernández and Maduro shaking hands.
From the UCR, the president of the block in the Chamber of Deputies, Mario Negri, considered that “the allies of Kirchnerism are authoritarian governments that violate human rights.”
The president of the Civic Coalition, Maxi Ferraro, called Fernández’s support for Maduro “one more shame.” “Making alliances with dictatorships reflects their authoritarian roots,” he added.
Meanwhile, Buenos Aires legislator Roberto García Moritán also stressed that Maduro is a “dictator” and suggested that the Frente de Todos will receive “a beating at the polls.”
Deputy Fernando Iglesias took advantage of his criticism of the meeting to also slide his darts against Javier Milei, who usually treats political leaders as “caste”.
“We are the caste. We are all the same. But with Maduro there are only them,” he said.
“Maduro kills, persecutes and tortures. What Human Rights are you talking about?” said the Secretary of Public Affairs of the Buenos Aires government, Waldo Wolff, in an extensive message posted on his Twitter account.
In turn, the deputy for the Civic Coalition, Mariana Zuvic considered that the concepts of human rights and freedom “are antagonistic to Maduro.”
Meanwhile, the secretary of International Relations of the PRO, Fulvio Pompeo, expressed his repudiation of the fact that “Argentina validates a regime like Venezuela’s, which committed crimes against humanity, has expelled millions of Venezuelans and does not understand or practice nor of democratic narrative”.
Elisa Trotta Gamus’ reaction after Alberto Fernández’s meeting with Nicolás Maduro
For her part, the former representative of Juan Guaidó in Argentina, Elisa Trotta Gamus, harshly criticized Alberto Fernández for his meeting with Nicolás Maduro. She called the President “the worst in the history of Argentina” for “taking pictures with oppressors.”
“The construction of a Latin America that defends democracy, human rights and freedom, will be when there are no longer dictatorships like the one in Venezuela, nor rulers who defend criminals against humanity like you, Mr. Alberto Fernández”, indicated the diplomat through a statement.
Elisa Trotta Gamus was representative of Juan Guaidó in Argentina. Photo Luciano Thieberger.
Trotta Gamus maintained that both Lula da Silva, Alberto Fernández and Andrés Manuel López Obrador “know exactly what is happening in Venezuela, because the whole world knows it.”
“It has been made clear in dozens of reports from NGOs, the UN, the IACHR, and the International Criminal Court itself. And it is clear with the experience of each one of the more than eight million Venezuelans that today are spread throughout the world, 250 thousand of them here in Argentina”, he expressed.
And he added: “What happens is that they don’t care. They are not interested in the suffering of the victims, the torture, the disappearances, the political prisoners, the mothers crying over their children”.
Lastly, he maintained that “they are not interested in human rights, nor democracy, nor freedom. They are only interested in their outdated and dangerous ideology, their businesses.”
“That is why today they are being repudiated in the world. And that is why here, in Argentina, every Venezuelan living permanently will remember him when it comes to exercising their right to vote,” he concluded.
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