Nicolás Maduro’s participation in the Ibero-American Summit had generated some expectations, but finally The Venezuelan president has had to cancel his trip to the Dominican Republic after testing positive for covid-19.
As reported this Saturday by his vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro was informed by his doctors on Friday evening of “a positive result” in a PCR test.
“This led to the suspension of his participation in the Ibero-American summit,” added the official, who said that two new tests were carried out this Saturday “with negative results”.
“Everything indicates that it was a false positive”Rodríguez specified through his Twitter account.
At the inauguration of the Ibero-American summit on Friday, the master of ceremonies announced that Maduro will attend the plenary session of heads of state and government this Saturday.
The Venezuelan presidency was occupied by Foreign Minister Yván Gil during this morning’s debate.
Maduro met with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, in Caracas on Friday in a meeting of which no details have been released.
A total of 14 heads of state and government are present at the meeting. One of the great absentees is the Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a great promoter of regional integration, who is starting a tour of China this weekend. Neither Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador or Nicaraguan Daniel Ortega traveled to the Dominican Republic, who usually don’t go to these events.
Boric has asked not to remain silent in the face of Ortega’s repression in Nicaragua
Chilean President Gabriel Boric stepped up Saturday with his criticism of the Nicaraguan government and said it was not acceptable to remain silent in the face of the “family dictatorship” of Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president Rosario Murillo.
During his speech at the twenty-eighth Ibero-American Summit taking place in Santo Domingo, Boric took the opportunity to reiterate his criticisms of the Ortega government and the repressive measures it has applied in recent months against Nicaraguan opponents.
“Ortega does not seem to know that the homeland is carried in his soul and blood, and it is not taken away by decree,” said the Chilean president, condemning the decision taken in February by Nicaragua to remove the nationality of 316 opponents. “It is not acceptable for us to remain silent in the face of the family dictatorship of Ortega and Murillo.”
Ortega was one of eight rulers who did not attend the Ibero-American summit. On his behalf, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada arrived in Santo Domingo on Saturday. The Associated Press asked officials at the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to confirm whether Moncada was present at the event Boric spoke, but they indicated they had no information.
Among the 316 Nicaraguans stripped of their nationality are seven former presidential hopefuls released as part of 222 “political prisoners” exiled on February 9, as well as 94 opponents, mostly exiles, such as writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli. , former Sandinista commanders Dora María Téllez and Luis Carrión, as well as 22 journalists.
Source: Clarin
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