“With @alferdez in the G20, we talk about the crises in Latin America, particularly in Venezuela and Nicaragua,” Emmanuel Macron wrote on his official Twitter account.

The message written in Spanish and addressed to Alberto Fernández highlights an issue that was not mentioned in the statements of the Argentine Foreign Ministry on the bilateral meeting.

Macron’s tweet added: “Another crisis was at the center of our concerns: the weather. We have to lead the way, to end fossil fuel subsidies.”

French President Emmanuel Macron was one of the first to condemn, for example, the arrest of Cristiana Chamorro, one of the seven presidential candidates imprisoned by Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua . The European Union as a bloc condemns the elections called by the regime for November 7, since they have been preceded by attacks against opponents.

Conversely, the reluctance of the Argentine government to condemn these abuses of democracy and human rights violations in Venezuela and Nicaragua, a rather lonely position in Latin America , is well known .

On October 20, the Casa Rosada confirmed this position and abstained from voting on a condemnation of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua. They voted like Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, while the Mercosur partners, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, favored the condemnation of the Nicaraguan regime.

Unlike what was reported by the French president, the Argentine presidency did not mention the dictatorships of Nicaragua and Venezuela, despite the fact that the expression “human rights” is in the statement . According to the official version of the Kirchner government, in the meeting that both leaders held in Rome within the framework of the G20 Summit, they discussed the debt that Argentina has with the IMF and its negotiation, on the Paris Agreement, climate action and the preservation of biodiversity, the defense of human rights and gender equality.

The Argentine statement on the meeting between Macron and Fernández says that both “reaffirmed the shared views” on all these issues, with an explicit mention of ” the defense of human rights”, but without any allusion to the two Latin American countries where clearly those rights are violated.

Alberto Fernández also used social networks to communicate the meeting and the topics discussed: “ With @emmanuelmacron, President of France, we reaffirm the shared visions regarding climate action, the preservation of biodiversity, the defense of human rights and equality of genre. I thanked your country for its support in negotiating with the Paris Club and the IMF. ” Nor did he mention Venezuela and Nicaragua.

Meanwhile, in his tweet, Emmanuel Macron made it clear that he expressed to Alberto Fernández his concern about the crises in Latin America, especially those that are happening in Nicaragua and Venezuela.

“Fernández ratified his government’s commitment to the implementation of the Paris Agreement,” the official statement also says.

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