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Brazil and Argentina relaunched their relationship on Monday, with a series of agreements that include the return of Unasur, the strengthening of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and emphatic support for Cuba and Venezuela.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, president of Cuba, is in Buenos Aires, a city that will most likely not set foot on Nicolás Maduro, the revolutionary leader of Venezuela.

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who arrived in the Argentine capital this Sunday, had planned to meet this afternoon with his Venezuelan counterpart, but the meeting was suspended.

"There was a change in Maduro's travel plans,"

a senior official at the Itamaraty Palace, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, told EL MUNDO.

"I don't know what he will do," Fernández admitted when asked if Maduro would visit Argentina.

Lula, who announced the full relaunch of diplomatic relations with Caracas, was very emphatic when talking about his vision of Venezuela: "I see that many people ask Maduro for his understanding, and these people forget that abominable things were done against democracy, that It was recognizing as president someone who was not president, who was Guaidó. That subject spent several months exercising the role of president without being president."

The Argentine opposition rejected the presence of Díaz-Canel and the announced one of Maduro, calling them dictators.

Former President Mauricio Macri spoke of "shame" for the presence of the Cuban and Venezuelan leader in Buenos Aires.

"To make it very clear: the welcome to these dictators is not organized by us, the Argentines, but by a government that languishes in its mediocrity, one that will soon take the unfortunate honor of having been the worst government in the history of our democracy. country".

Patricia Bullrich, president of PRO, the party that Macri founded, raised the tension by asking the DEA delegation in Buenos Aires, the US agency in charge of drug control, to arrest Maduro, if he were to set foot in Buenos Aires, due to complaints of links to drug trafficking.

In an interview with 'Folha de São Paulo', Alberto Fernández, the Argentine president, said that he wants to have Maduro in Buenos Aires.

The Venezuelan leader was expected to arrive this Monday and his presence was the subject of protests by organizations of Venezuelans in exile.

"Venezuela is part of CELAC and Maduro is more than invited

," said the Argentine head of state, who is not certain that he will be able to maintain his position as president pro tempore of Celac this year, a platform that served him in 2022 to be part of the G7 Summit organized by Germany in Munich.

While the leaders of the Latin American and Caribbean states arrive in Buenos Aires, there is already a clear absence, that of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Uruguayan Luis Almagro, whom Fernández detests and accuses of having been an instrument of former US President Donald Trump and functional to what he defines as a "coup" against Evo Morales in 2019 in Bolivia.

Fernández received Lula on an official visit.

It was not from the State, the Argentine Government preferred to avoid that level of visit, which would have forced Lula to meet with the members of the Supreme Court of Justice, which the Casa Rosada is facing.

Schedule with Brazil

Lula and Fernández closed energy agreements, the construction of a gas pipeline from southern Argentina to the border with Brazil and the intention of creating

.

While this was happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina was presenting a complaint to the United Nations in Geneva for an alleged "legal war" that led to the conviction of Cristina Kirchner for corruption.

Quite an eccentric exercise by Argentine diplomacy.

The Swiss city is the headquarters of the UN Commission on Human Rights, which annually analyzes the human rights situation in each member country.

This year it is the turn, among others, of Argentina, and the Fernández government denounced the country it governs: the "legal war" (

) with Vice President Fernández de Kirchner as a victim, confirms that human rights are violated in the country , the report states.

"Fundamental guarantees of the Rule of Law are violated: basic guarantees of due process such as the presumption of innocence, the right to defense and the principle of objectivity that should guide the actions of the Public Prosecutor are ignored," says the presentation of more than 30 pages made by Horacio Pietragalla, Secretary of Human Rights.

"These criminal cases are promoted solely against political figures who represent popular sectors, while powerful sectors are kept in impunity, which have allowed or endorsed the criminal indebtedness that has generated poverty and indigence in the population," the report added. .

Federico Villegas, Argentine ambassador to international organizations in Geneva, is the president of the Human Rights Council.

Fernández de Kirchner was sentenced in December to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from

holding public office for considering it proven that she was part of a multi-million dollar fraud against the State.

The two-time president will appeal the ruling and will not enter prison, since the sentence is not final.

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