After several back and forth between the opposition and the ruling party, finally the 27 senators voted in favor of assigning the diplomat to Venezuela. However, some senators assured that the ambassador will have difficulties in that country.
“He’s not going to have a good time, he’s going to see the worst side of (Nicolás)’s execrable regime.” Ripe which is more filthy, disgusting and dictatorial every day,” commented the National Party senator, Sebastian Da Silva.
For his part, the senator José Carlos Mahía, of the Frente Amplio, assured that Montes de Oca is a “career civil servant,” although she admitted that the fate that befell her as a diplomat “is not easy.”
The new ambassador’s resume
Montes de Oca is a career leader in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who worked until today at the Artigas Institute of Foreign Service.
Beyond his last position in Chancellery, The leader has extensive experience, having been coordinator of the international agenda in the National Directorate of Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment between 2022 and 2023.
In addition, in 2021-2022 she was Minister Counselor and Consul General of the Republic at the Embassy of Uruguay in Chili and he held that same position in the city of Toronto Canada, between 2013 and 2018.
Doctor in Law and Social Sciences and Public Notary, in both cases graduated from Udelar, she was also part of the Uruguayan embassy in Washington between 2006 and 2011, according to his extensive CV.
The government’s complaint
The government denounced at the end of March that “Venezuela is consolidated as a dictatorship” after having signed, together with other countries in the region, a joint statement in which it expressed “serious concern” about the integrity of the electoral process in that country.
At a press conference, the minister of Foreign Relations (MRREE) Omar Paganini assured that they will maintain the presence of Oca Mountains in Venezuela since, as they have already pointed out on previous occasions, “the relationship is with the people, not with the government” headed by Nicolás Maduro.
“The worst forecasts have been confirmed,” Paganini assured the press, regarding the fact that the Maduro government prevented the registration of the opposition group’s candidate. Venezuelan Democratic Unitary Platform —made up of the Democratic Unity Table (MUD) and A New Time (UNT)—, Corina Lloris, who would stand in place of the leader Maria Corina Machado after his participation in the elections was disqualified.
“They allowed candidates to be registered that the Venezuelan regime obviously has no concern about being able to gather a large number of votes, but not those who pose a risk, so that the Venezuelan electoral process has clearly been completely distorted and, unless these things are reversed, admits no surprise but also indicates that Venezuela is consolidated as a dictatorship that moves away from any possible democratic practice,” considered the chancellor, although he did not give determinations regarding the fact that, eventually, the Uruguayan government will not recognize the results of the elections: “We will see it in due course, but clearly the situation,” said the leader.
“Elections are not for people to choose what the government in power wants, and this is not the attitude of the Venezuelan regime, therefore it is consolidated in a dictatorial practice, a situation that the government of Uruguay and many government of South AmericaI would say that everyone, actually, in different ways, is very concerned,” Paganini said.
In that sense, he announced that they are evaluating taking this concern to other international areas such as Organization of American States (OAS)after the presentation made by the vice chancellor Nicolas Albertoni Front of Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac). Another alternative that is being analyzed is the formation of a kind of Lima Group to seek a change in Venezuela. “We want a continent of democracy, a continent of freedom, and these things keep us away,” added the head of the MRREE, clarifying that the options currently on the table “are negotiations that have to be developed.”
Regarding the dialogue that preceded the publication of the joint statement, the chancellor noted that it “was quite fluid and quite fast because the situation was urgent.” He also highlighted that “other countries have other strategies that are extremely respectable”, in relation to governments that did not adhere to the communiqués, as in the cases of Chili and Brazil. “We understood that we had to raise our voice together with many other countries in the face of a critical situation,” he added.
Source: Ambito
