Argentina said it does not care “at all” about the “nonsense” that the Venezuelan government says

The Argentine government said on Friday that it does not care “at all” about the “nonsense” that the “dictatorial” government of Venezuela says about Argentine President Javier Milei.

“We don’t care what a dictatorial government like Venezuela’s says,” said presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni at a press conference.

This Thursday, in a television program, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, once again criticized the Argentine government and ironically invited Milei to visit his country, after a Venezuelan prosecutor requested the processing of arrest warrants against the Argentine president, his sister and Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei, and the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, for the case of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane detained in Buenos Aires since 2022 and sent to the United States last February.

“Now they want to put some Argentine officials in jail. It’s part of the shoddy show of a dictatorship in decline that has done a lot of harm to the Venezuelan people. We prefer not to respond to such nonsense,” said Adorni.

Last Wednesday, the Argentine Foreign Ministry had already repudiated the decision of the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office to process the request for an arrest warrant against Milei following the incident involving the Emtrasur plane.

“It’s all ridiculous. A dictatorship doesn’t have to understand the division of powers, but the decision about the plane is a judicial decision of Argentina and not of the president of the country,” Adorni said on Friday.

The spokesman said the arrest warrants did not merit any comment because “they come from a dictatorship” and it is “something stupid.”

This month, Argentina’s Foreign Ministry urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to request an arrest warrant against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and “other leaders of the regime” in light of “the worsening situation” following the presidential elections in the Caribbean country on July 28.

Adorni reiterated on Friday that the elections were “irregular” and, despite the fact that the Argentine government last month recognized the anti-Chavez candidate Edmundo González Urritia as the winner of the elections, he argued that it should be the “mechanisms of Venezuela” that define whether the opposition leader won the elections.

“Today we are not in a position to legitimize a candidate. Obviously, for us the elections were not won by the dictator. They were elections tainted by corruption and Maduro was not the one that the people elected. But that has nothing to do with us being able to recognize an elected president today,” he argued.

Caracas / EFE