Maduro thanks Fernández for his speech in Los Angeles
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The Venezuelan president spoke from Tehran, the second stop on his current world tour
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro thanked Argentine President Alberto Fernández on Friday for his message at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, a meeting from which Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have been excluded by the host country.
Maduro said that Fernández’s statements were those of a brave man: “Alberto Fernández has made a firm, clear, brave speech and has put everything in its place,” Maduro said from Iran, praising Fernández’s maneuver of criticizing the president. of the US, Joseph Biden, for his decision not to invite those three countries with the argument that they do not have democratic governments and then offer to visit Buenos Aires for the CELAC Summit in December, where no one is left out.
Maduro made these statements on the Iranian state network HispanTV. Iran is suspected of masterminding and financing the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish social association, for which no one has been convicted except the man who facilitated the attack vehicle. Iranian officials suspected of involvement in the attack have traveled freely around the world despite Interpol alerts on them.
In his speech before the Summit of the Americas, Fernández also called for the immediate removal from the OAS of the Uruguayan Luis Almagro, under whose mandate the continental body has participated in the Bolivian uprising that caused the resignation of Evo Morales and his replacement by Janine Áñez, currently on trial for those facts.
Fernández also asked Biden to redirect his country’s policy towards Latin America and questioned his predecessor Donald Trump’s support for the Mauricio Macri administration.
The Argentine president also called for a change in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) so that “without further delay, it has to govern Latin America and the Caribbean again.” This institution, Fernandez insisted, “was historically in Latin American hands,” and is now headed by the American Mauricio Claver-Carone.
Maduro is on a world tour that began this week in Ankara. During his stay in Iran, the South American president will meet with local authorities with whom he will sign a 20-year strategic document, it was reported.
Iran and Venezuela, whose relations date back to the 1960s, have substantially strengthened their ties over the years, as their cooperation has been framed in joint initiatives to circumvent the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States and catapult their development. set in various fields.
The two countries are “partners in their struggle; in anti-imperialism, in anti-colonialism, in anti-racism”, according to Maduro’s statements to HispanTV.
The leader also welcomed Iran’s help in easing US coercive measures by sending oil tankers, dodging threats of irrational attacks from Washington.
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