Chileans question Piñera's next visit to the Colombian-Venezuelan border - MPPRE

Chileans question Piñera’s next visit to the Colombian-Venezuelan border

The subordination of President Sebastián Piñera, of the Republic of Chile, to the foreign policy of the United States with respect to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been rigidly criticized by citizens of the southern nation, including officials in office. In particular, they criticize the announced visit of the Chilean president on February 22 to the Colombian city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela, where a “charity concert” has been organized and from where it is intended to remit the supposed humanitarian aid of the United States. to the South American country. The deputy Jaime Naranjo questioned the solidarity of President Piñera, who -says- “has always been a person who likes to have a low profile”. For his part, the mayor of Recolecta, Daniel Jadue, rebuked the president’s decision to act with Washington in its interventionist plans. Meanwhile, other Chilean citizens show from Venezuela the normal development of the country, on which a powerful media campaign has been bashed seeking to project an image of chaos in the oil nation. A current memory The Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, recalled – in this context – the supposed “humanitarian aid” that Chile sent to Croatia at the end of the last century, which ended up being in part tons of armaments. “Current memory: in 1991, already in democracy, Pinochet, as Chief of the Chilean Army, sent ‘Humanitarian Aid’ to Croatia. It turns out that when passing through Hungary they detected in these boxes 11 tons of weapons, grenades, ammunition and anti-tank rockets”, the Venezuelan diplomat specified.