The Argentine Ministry of National Security informed in a statement, this Saturday (3), that the country started to adopt new immigration measures. Employees, members of the armed forces and businesspeople associated with the Nicolás Maduro regime now have restricted entry into the country.
According to the statementtheThe new provisions establish restrictions on regime associates in order to “prevent them from using Argentina as a refuge.” “Argentina will not grant asylum to collaborators of the Maduro regime”, adds the text.
After the United States attack on Venezuela, the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, in an official statement, said he celebrated “the capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro by the government of the United States of America”. He classified Venezuela’s role on the continent as an “enemy of freedom” and made a comparison with Cuba in the 1960s.
For more than 60 years, the USA has imposed a harsh economic blockade on the Cuban government with the aim of changing the country’s political regime, established after the 1959 Revolution. The embargo on Cuba is condemned by most countries. They consider it a violation of international law.
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The United States attack against Venezuela this weekend marks a new episode of direct interventions by Washington in Latin America. The last time the US invaded a Latin American country was in 1989, in Panama, when the US military kidnapped then-president Manuel Noriega, accusing him of drug trafficking.
Just as they did with Noriega, the United States accuses Maduro of leading an alleged Venezuelan De Los Soles cartel, without presenting evidence. Experts in international drug trafficking question the existence of this cartel.
Donald Trump’s administration was offering a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.
For critics, the action is a geopolitical measure to distance Venezuela from global adversaries of the United States – such as China and Russia – in addition to exerting greater control over the country’s oil, which owns the largest proven oil reserves on the planet.
