Diplomacy Controversial trip in search of a "political solution" in Venezuela
As scheduled, Vice President
Delcy Rodríguez
today held an "important meeting" in Caracas with
Cristina Gallach
, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the first high-level meeting after the famous Delcygate at the Barajas airport.
A meeting "on the occasion of celebrating the 176th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries," as reflected by the Bolivarian government on its social networks.
According to the Vice Presidency statement, "the authorities highlighted their condition as sovereign, free and independent states and reviewed bilateral relations aiming to recover the level of relationship between both nations."
Also participating in the meeting were
Juan Fernández Trigo
, Chargé d'Affaires of the Spanish Embassy, and the General Director for Latin America and the Caribbean,
Rafael Garranzo
.
"Respect, non-interference and real cooperation must characterize our relationship with Spain. Basic premises between sovereign countries. We hope to move in that direction," said Chavista Foreign Minister
Jorge Arreaza
.
Since her arrival in Caracas, Foreign Ministry number 2 has tried to improve relations to a minimum, culminating a month ago with the battery of insults by the Chavista leaders against Minister Arancha González Laya during her official visit to the Colombian border, which has become the funnel of the great national tragedy.
"
Injerencista", "colonialista" and "xenophobic"
were just some of the revolutionary accusations against the Spanish envoy.
Prior to his meeting with Delcy, Gallach published on his social networks three images of his meetings yesterday with the government, the opposition, the private sector and the Catholic Church, including the one already known with Arreaza.
"In Venezuela we are committed to solving the political, humanitarian and health crisis, as well as to the 150,000 residents," said the Spanish official.
Among those attending the meetings, the president of the Fedecámaras employer,
Ricardo Cusano
, and the apostolic nuncio, Monsignor Aldo Giordano,
stood out
.
The chief of businessmen participates in a negotiation table with Chavismo, he has even proposed to the government to import its own vaccines in the face of
Nicolás Maduro's
erratic policy
against the pandemic.
Gallach's surprise trip, made known a few minutes before landing in Caracas, occurs amid the scandal in Spain over the millionaire rescue of the
Plus Ultra airline,
whose main shareholders are Bolibourgeois businessmen close to Delcy Rodríguez herself, according to Spanish and local media.
Delcy herself has already attracted the news with her affair in Barajas with the Minister of Transport,
José Luis Ábalos
, by using the airport's transit area despite being sanctioned by the European Union.
Spain has not recognized Maduro since the fraud in the 2018 presidential elections, a decision that he deepened by leading the support for the challenge of the opposition and
Juan Guaidó
since 2019. In addition, in the dungeons of the "president town" there are five citizens with nationality Spanish, one more under house arrest.
Apart from the political tirade and the search for a dialogue solution for Venezuela, the United Nations singles out Maduro and his main generals for crimes against humanity, under investigation by the
International Criminal Court
, among which are extra-summary executions, torture, detentions arbitrary, rape and enforced disappearances.
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