The vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, explained on Twitter that Maduro underwent a first PCR test on Friday with a positive result, which “caused the suspension of his participation” in the Ibero-American Summit. This Saturday, Rodríguez reported that the two subsequent tests yielded negative results. However, neither of them attended the summit, so the government representation was left to the Foreign Minister, Yván Gil
Until the last moment, the Government of Venezuela kept the unknown regarding the level of the delegation that would attend the Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo. Until the morning of this Saturday, March 25, the attendance of the vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, was confirmed, after learning that the president, Nicolás Maduro, would not attend due to a possible contagion by covid-19.
However, after confirming that the test result was a “false positive”, neither Maduro nor Vice President Rodríguez attended the meeting that takes place in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic.
Through her Twitter account, the vice president explained that Maduro received a first PCR test on Friday with a positive result, which “caused the suspension of his participation” in the aforementioned summit, where he would have coincided with the King and the President of the Government. Pedro Sanchez.
“Today two tests have been performed with negative results. Everything indicates that it was a false positive,” said Rodríguez, who until this Saturday appeared as the foreseeable head of the Venezuelan delegation on the list of speakers for the plenary session.
Yesterday, the President @NicolasMaduro He was informed by his doctors of a positive PCR COVID result. This led to the suspension of his participation in the Ibero-American Summit. Two tests have been performed today with negative results. Everything indicates that it was a false positive.
— Delcy Rodríguez (@delcyrodriguezv) March 25, 2023
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However, the Government was not left without representation, so it delegated responsibility to the Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, who published on his Twitter account that he was in Santo Domingo representing Nicolás Maduro.
We started in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ??, meeting of Foreign Ministers prior to the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government. pic.twitter.com/FTQXyLSj3h
— Yvan Gil (@yvangil) March 24, 2023
The possible presence of the president, Nicolás Maduro, had been the subject of debate in recent weeks, given that it would mean his return to the forefront of international forums and his coincidence, for the first time in recent years, with the King and the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez.
However, Venezuelan government sources consulted by Europe Press They confirmed on Friday that Maduro would finally delegate his humerus two’ to cover him at this summit.
After the death of Hugo Chávez, which occurred ten years ago, Nicolás Maduro has not attended any Ibero-American Summit. In 2018 his presence in Guatemala was scheduled, but he finally chose to send the then foreign minister, Jorge Arreaza.
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The same thing happened in 2021 in Andorra, when at the last moment he delegated to the vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, despite the fact that the intervention had to be telematic due to the pandemic.
«The announcement made by the Dominican organization of the Iberoamerican Summit On Friday, March 24, the arrival of Nicolás Maduro to the summit surprised the region, since it was strange that the Venezuelan president was encouraged to expose himself in a forum with weighty detractors and without fear of making their differences explicit,” he highlights in a note Infobae.
Months ago, when the CELAC summit was held in Buenos Aires, Maduro had everything planned to attend, but hours before, the strong signs of rejection and the demonstrations planned against him made him give up.
In January, he was also expected in Brazil for the inauguration of Lula da Silva. Even a Chavista intelligence team traveled to Brazilian territory to prepare the ground in a vanguard team mode, but in the end it did not dare.
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