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“I am very worried about the humanitarian situation. But we are in the presence of a government that has made arbitrary decisions, which has jeopardized the rule of law and there is a crisis of democratic coexistence, ”said Alberto Fernández in an interview with Le Monde, in the framework of his European tour.
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The Argentine president said that “nothing that has been tried so far has served” and said that “the solution cannot be an external intervention ”.
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The Peronist, who said he was “satisfied” to have found that French President Emmanuel Macron agrees with him and insisted that “it is Venezuelans who must decide their future”. This last concept is the one that he usually uses to separate himself from the previous Argentine government, that of Mauricio Macri, who openly called the Chavez regime dictatorship.
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Although Fernández has criticized certain aspects of the Maduro regime, he does not recognize the opponent Juan Guaidó as a valid interlocutor, something that more than 50 countries of the world led by the US do, and that the Macri government did. In fact, Fernández invited a questioned Chavista official, the communications minister Jorge Rodríguez, to his assumption and took the diplomatic credential from Elisa Trotta, the envoy from Guaidó.
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Rodríguez is Maduro’s main strategist, is on the payroll of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which heads the United States Department of the Treasury, and from the Information portfolio censorship to foreign media -as Infobae- and manipulates the news of his country and the world to hide the social and economic crisis that Venezuela is going through.
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Thus, since he assumed, Fernández maintains formal relations with the Chavista regime but always reserves a portion of his public statements to highlight his concerns. Already during the campaign, the Peronist had described the Venezuelan as an “authoritarian government very difficult to defend”. At that time, his main concern was focused on the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, in which kidnappings, torture and more than 7,000 extrajudicial executions are documented.
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The statement earned him a message from Diosdado Cabello, one of the main leaders of the Chavista regime, sanctioned in the US and the EU for drug trafficking and corruption. “I am very happy for the effort and value of the Argentine people. Hopefully, dear God, make no mistake, who they are choosing will not believe they are choosing because it is him. In a clear warning tone, the strong man of the Venezuelan regime explained to Fernández that the election result is the message of “a people choosing‘ No ’to neoliberalism”. “I hope they don’t let him down,” he added.
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On January 5, when the Chavez forces violently prevented the entry of Guaidó and 100 deputies to the National Assembly, in what the international community described as a coup to Parliament, the Argentine government issued a statement condemning the actions of the regime. “To impede the operation of the Legislature by force is to condemn international isolation,” said Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Solá in his social media accounts. And the reaction also earned him discomfort in Chavismo.
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It is that in Venezuela, the PSUV usually vindicates the figure of the current vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and little is said in public about Alberto Fernández.
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During the interview in Le monde, the Argentine president talked about other of Fernandez’s marked foreign policy turns: Bolivia. His government assimilated Evo Morales, accused by the Bolivian opposition and the OAS of allowing irregularities in the last presidential election, and ignored Jeanine Añez as interim president. “Do you feel isolated in a region that has turned to the right?” Asked the journalist of the French newspaper. “Not at all. I do not limit my contacts to those who think like me. I do not take advantage of the internal conflicts of other countries, it is not my role. But, in Bolivia there was a coup d’etat and the American continent has suffered enough the lack of democracy ”.
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