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Will Nicolás Maduro arrive in Argentina for the Celac Summit? This is what is known

The possible arrival of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroto Buenos Aires to attend the VII Celac Summit added another element of confusion this Monday when it was learned that he suspended a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, due to agenda issues.

The scheduled meeting between Lula da Silva and Maduro “was canceled” by the Venezuelan sideas confirmed to EFE by Brazilian diplomatic sources, “due to logistical circumstances” and “agenda.”

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As explained by the Brazilian sources, “There was a change in President Maduro’s flight plan.”

The presence of Ripe -never officially confirmed- has generated great controversy and widespread rejection in Argentinadue to complaints of human rights violations in Venezuela.

Not only opposition leaders requested to testify to Ripe “persona non grata”, but one of its leaders, Patricia Bullrichpresident of the Republican Proposal party (the same as former president Mauricio Macri), He planned to report him to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) so that he could be arrested for his participation in the ‘Cartel de los Soles’.

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Also, The Argentine Forum for Democracy in the Region (Fader) has denounced it before the Argentine Justicealong with their Nicaraguan peers, Daniel Ortega, and Cuban, Miguel Díaz-Canel, to be investigated for “crimes against humanity.”

And Venezuelans residing in Argentina have requested that the Argentine Justice call him for an investigation “for the crimes of his Government.”

The manifestations of the Venezuelan community are added in Argentina in front of the Sheraton hotel, in the capital’s Retiro neighborhood, where the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).

Lula da Silva is already in Buenos Aires to attend the forum, an intergovernmental mechanism for dialogue and political agreement that was created in 2010 and is made up of the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, of which Argentina is the host because it exercises the pro tempore presidency.

Source: Elcomercio

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