The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will only stop guarding Argentina’s diplomatic headquarters in Venezuela when the government of Nicolás Maduro designates a substitute country to represent the needs of Argentines in Caracas, the CNN .
Sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs say that Brazil will continue to represent Argentina’s interests and that if Venezuela wants to revoke its authorization, it will have to wait for a replacement country to be defined. In the meantime, Brazil will continue to assume this responsibility.
The position of Brazilian diplomacy is that the end of the authorization cannot be unilateral and that there cannot be a vacuum in the representation of Argentine diplomatic missions in Venezuela. And that despite the friction, the Argentine foreign ministry and the Chavista government will have to agree on a replacement.
THE CNN found that, to date, Javier Milei’s foreign ministry and Maduro’s have not been in contact, but this will have to happen so that both countries can reach an agreement on which nation will represent Argentine interests in Venezuela.
On Friday night (6), the Maduro government announced that it will suspend Brazilian custody of Argentine representations in Venezuela, assumed in August, after the expulsion of Argentine diplomats by Maduro.
As of Saturday morning (7), however, Itamaraty had not received an official note from Venezuela formalizing the intention. If it were up to Brazil, however, Argentina would not be left without custody of its diplomatic headquarters.
The main concern is for the six opposition members who are taking refuge in the Argentine embassy residence in Caracas. On Friday night, they posted videos of a police siege in front of the building.
On Saturday morning (7), they were still posting videos of police officers and patrol cars on the scene on social media. “The electricity is out and access to the embassy is occupied,” wrote Magalli Meda, a member of the team of opposition candidate María Corina Machado.
“This is how the Argentine embassy in Caracas dawns, surrounded by regime agents, hooded and armed,” wrote the campaign of then presidential candidate Edmundo González.
Opponents also report that police are preventing journalists from accessing the street, even though it is not blocked.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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