Venezuela finally informed Argentina on Monday that the president Niccolo Maduro he will not participate in the CELAC summit in Buenos Aires and this Tuesday the Venezuelan president himself gave the reasons for it, including the complaints of the opposition. I speak of “ambushes”, “conspiracies”.
“I wanted to be physically, directly at the scene of events as we have always been, as we always will be,” Maduro said in a video he sent to the Buenos Aires summit.
“Reasons beyond our control, permanent conspiracies, permanent persecutions, permanent threats, calculated ambushes, made me take the most correct and just decision not to fall into the provocations that tried to tarnish this long-awaited moment, so special for America Latin America and the Caribbean”, acknowledged the Venezuelan leader.
Maduro praised the idea of creating a Latin American currency
“Our America has great tasks of economic, commercial and financial integration. We share President Lula Da Silva’s proposal to start the construction of the South American Caribbean monetary system. For a system that leads us to a currency and a sharing of financial and monetary systems in the Latin American region”, remarked Maduro regarding the idea proposed by the president of Brazil.
“The first fundamental step must be taken, the first step which must be irreversible for the region. The path of complete economic, commercial, financial and monetary integration,” added Maduro.
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Source: Clarin
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