After various meetings and informal discussions with like-minded leaders, the President decided Javier Milei During these hours, he took advantage of the cameras of an international news channel and admitted that he was “working” to form a bloc of center-right and regional right-wing presidents with the aim of “fighting back” against socialism “in its various versions.” A way to establish a position against Venezuela Nicolas Madurotoday besieged by the Trump administration, but also in opposition to the progressive leadership of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“We are trying to create a block where our proposal is located Embrace the ideas of freedom and stand against the cancer of socialism in its various versions: from the 21st century or the woke upnot to mention the most extreme versions,” Milei said in part of the interview given to CNN on Tuesday, which will be fully known in ten days. In this note, Milei specified that it is a bloc of ten leaders and that although they do not have a name, “We are working and will continue to move forward” to form the regional bloc.
Although the government confirmed to LA NACION that the project is still in its early stages, recent events have shown that Milei, along with other regional leaders with whom there are coincidences, is largely under the umbrella (or with the endorsement) of the North American government. In Oslo City Hall, where the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize, Milei argued with him Santiago Pena (Paraguay), Jose Mulino (Panama) and Daniel Noboa (Ecuador). He saw the first two again at the recent summit of Mercosur presidents in Foz de Iguazú. The new Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz; his colleague from Peru, Jose Jeri; and the Central Americans Nayib Bukele (El Salvador), Rodrigo Chavez (Costa Rica) and Luis Abinader (Dominican Republic), as well as the elected presidents, maintain varying degrees of harmony with the ideas of “freedom”. Nasry Asfura (Honduras) and José Antonio Kast (Chile), who was at the Casa Rosada days ago and will take office on March 11, with Milei as one of his prominent guests, as confirmed by the Presidency.
The government emphasizes that a large part of the group has already signed joint statements not only criticizing Chavismo in Venezuela, but also supporting the actions of the United States in the Caribbean Sea and the elections in Honduras, which were decided in favor of Asfura, Washington’s candidate.
“The region has woken up from the nightmare of 21st century socialism, which is a farce,” Milei explained in an interview with the journalist Andres Oppenheimerfrom CNN. “There is a turn to the ideas of freedom,” the president warned in Foz de Iguazú Lula da Silva sits a few steps away.
United – albeit with different emphasis – in support of the currently postponed agreement with the EU, Milei and Lula showed very different positions at the summit in Foz de Iguazú regarding the political crisis in Venezuela and the ways to resolve it. While the Brazilian spoke of a possible “humanitarian catastrophe” as a result of a possible armed intervention by the United States and reiterated (with the support of Uruguay) the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of states, Milei used the term “drug dictator” for Maduro and clearly supported Trump’s “pressure” against the Chavista government, which includes the constant presence of military personnel near Venezuelan territory.
It was Trump who blessed the creation of Congress nearly a decade ago Lima Groupa precedent for the current talks as it also brought together right-wing governments in the region interested in a “democratic solution” for Venezuela. The group that included the then-President Mauricio Macri and his couple from Chile, Sebastian Pinerahad the support of the continent’s largest and most influential countries such as Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Argentina left the group in 2021, already under the government of Alberto Fernandez and with a political climate in the region that is very different from the current one.
“The fact that Brazil, Mexico, Colombia or Canada, which were part of this group in Lima, are not part of this group today, already makes a difference. The criticism of multilateralism and the idea of resolving the Venezuela issue are correct, their influence would be less at the moment,” he told LA NACION. Fulvio Pompeoformer Secretary of Strategic Affairs of the Macri government and current Secretary of International Relations of Pro.
Excited by the apparent shift in ideological trends in the region, the government is trying to highlight similarities with other potential members of the group, although almost none of the potential allies define themselves as libertarian. The May elections in Colombia, where the successor to Gustavo Petroand especially those of Brazil, in October, in which Lula will seek re-election Flavio Bolsonaro as one of his opponents will be crucial in realizing the extent of the continent’s ideological transformation.
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