The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, said that he has nothing to talk about with the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, because he considers him a “dictator” who is trying to make the presidential elections on July 28th “his” .
“I have nothing to talk about with Nicolás Maduro because for me he is a dictator”, replied Milei in an interview broadcast this Sunday (5) by the American broadcaster Univision.
Asked whether he will recognize the results of the Venezuelan elections, the Argentine president replied: “It seems to me that there will have to be a battle to control the elections because the regime is trying to make them its own.”
Venezuela will hold elections in July, in which Maduro will seek reelection for the second time against an opposition that has seen problems competing, such as the disqualification that prevents María Corina Machado, elected in the primaries as a presidential candidate, from running for public office, and the obstacles that, according to the opposition alliance Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), they suffered to nominate Corina Yoris, who had been the first option to replace the anti-Chavista leader.
On the other hand, after calling him a “murderous terrorist” a month ago, Milei definitively ended the conflict with the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, by saying that both governments understood that “the ties between Argentines and Colombians”.
This and other insults from the Argentine president in recent months against his Colombian counterpart provoked a bilateral diplomatic crisis that led Petro to recall his ambassador in Buenos Aires, Camilo Romero, for consultations in Bogotá and threaten the expulsion of diplomats from the Argentine embassy in Colombia .
A diplomatic confrontation that was resolved on April 19, when the Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for Colombia, Luis Gilberto Murillo, received his Argentine counterpart, Diana Mondino, in Bogotá.